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Michael Wasielewski is the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry and Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Energy (ISEN) at Northwestern; and Director of the Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center (a US-DOE Energy Frontier Research Center); and Executive Director of the Solar Fuels Institute, a global consortium of energy research centers.
He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. He began his career at Argonne National Laboratory, where he advanced to Senior Scientist and Group Leader. In 1994, he joined the faculty of Northwestern and from 2001 to 2004 served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry. His research has resulted in more than 550 publications and focuses on light-driven processes in molecules and materials, artificial photosynthesis, molecular electronics, and molecular spintronics. Wasielewski’s recent honors include membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists, the Honda-Fujishima Award of the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Royal Society of Chemistry Environment Prize, the Humboldt Research Award, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society, the Porter Medal for Photochemistry, and the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry. |
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