John Anderson

  • Title: Associate Chair for Research and Professor
  • Education: BS, MS, both from the University of Chicago; PhD, California Institute of Technology
  • Joined UChicago Faculty: 2015
  • jsanderson@uchicago.edu

John Anderson

Departmental Website:
https://chemistry.uchicago.edu/john-anderson
Anderson Lab:
https://andersonlab.uchicago.edu/

John Anderson is the Associate Chair for Research and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He runs the Anderson Lab, which focuses on research centered on transition metal chemistry, while finding substantial overlap in a variety of other fields, including organic chemistry, spectroscopy, materials chemistry, and biology. 

Anderson can speak to media about can speak to the media about chemistry, energy, catalysis, quantum information science, and bioinorganic chemistry.

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Bioinorganic Chemistry, Catalysis, Chemistry, Energy, Quantum Information Science

Anderson Stories

University of Chicago scientists discover material that can be made like a plastic but conducts like metal PSD lab

University of Chicago scientists discover material that can be made like a plastic but conducts like metal

‘Like conductive Play-Doh’: breakthrough could point way to new class of materials for electronics, devices

New $12.5 million center at UChicago to investigate zero-emission hydrogen energy Prof. Laura Gagliardi at a desk with two models of molecules

New $12.5 million center at UChicago to investigate zero-emission hydrogen energy

U.S. Department of Energy Energy Frontier Research Center to seek new catalysts for sustainable energy

U.S. Department of Energy funds center to build a foundation for quantum chemistry Abstract 3-D illustration of molecules floating in space

U.S. Department of Energy funds center to build a foundation for quantum chemistry