Spectroscopy

Graham Fleming receives Director's Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement

December 4, 2025
The awards recognize significant and outstanding scientific contributions from individuals or teams who have made major breakthroughs, advanced research in a field, or demonstrated exceptional leadership in a scientific project.

Markita Landry receives the 2020 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award

October 19, 2020
By combining single-molecule biophysics and nanomaterial-polymer science, Markita Landry Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley has developed new tools for understanding biological systems.

UC Berkeley researchers illuminate material complexity with nonlinear x-ray spectroscopy

August 10, 2021

Nano letters cover art from the lab of Michael ZuerchOn the Cover: Artist rendering of second harmonic generation spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet state. Illustration by Ella Marushenko. (Nano Letters, Vol 21, No 14)

(SHG) spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet is an emerging technique used to study inversion symmetry...

Congratulations to Jeffrey Long and Daniel Neumark on receiving 2019 ACS awards

January 25, 2019

Jeffrey Long and Daniel NeumarkUC Berkeley College of Chemistry professors Jeffrey Long and Daniel Neumark have been announced as 2019 American Chemical Society (ACS) awardees for their pioneering chemical research. They will be honored at a ceremony at the spring ACS national meeting in Orlando, Florida, March 31–April 4, 2019.

Gabor A. Somorjai has passed away at the age of 90.

July 8, 2025
It is with tremendous sadness that we share the news that Gabor Somorjai has passed away.

Michael Zuerch awarded Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research award

May 5, 2025
This prestigious international award recognizes researchers who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in their fields and anticipates further groundbreaking contributions.

UC Berkeley scientists develop new spectroscopic probe for the secrets of complex interfaces

February 4, 2019
The DOE has announced in a news release that Professor of Chemistry Richard Saykally and colleagues have devised a spectroscopy method that probes buried graphene layers inside graphite.

How water helps the substrate into the enzyme

December 15, 2020

eyedropper with liquid

When water is present in tiny quantities – much less than in this droplet – it develops special properties. (photo: Roger Ashford, Adobe Stock)

An international research team has investigated water molecules in a tiny cage – and discovered previously unknown properties.

Researchers from Bochum and UC Berkeley have investigated why cages can increase the catalytic...

Department of Chemistry welcomes new faculty

May 10, 2019

Alanna Schepartz and Michael Zuerch join the department of chemistry

Matthew Francis, Chair of the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, announces the addition of two new faculty members who will join the College in July. Alanna Schepartz joins the faculty as the T. Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry; Michael Zuerch joins the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry.

Introducing our new faculty members and their lab groups

September 3, 2019

Fall semester at UC Berkeley brings cool air, sunny skies and hordes of nervous incoming first-year undergrads to the campus. At the College of Chemistry, the beginning of the semester also triggers a sudden epidemic of goofy handmade posters that seem to multiply and cover every available vertical surface.

Lab promotional posters for UC Berkeley College of Chemistry

Recruiting posters for...