Chemistry

Six Lehigh University professors have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors. The 2025 cohort comprises 162 academic inventors representing 64 NAI Member Institutions across the United States. Collectively, they are named inventors on over 1200 U.S. patents. Included in the cohort is Volkmar Dierolf, professor of physics, and Xiaoji Xu, associate professor of chemistry.

Lisa Fredin employs quantum mechanics to examine the chemical physics of catalytic materials.

Chemistry Ph.D. student receives an NSF award to help others take a less-traveled path to the sciences.

Chemistry and physics researchers join forces to unravel mystery behind cell signaling and lipid membrane movement.

Biochemist Oriana Fisher receives a $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators' Research Award award from the National Institutes of Health