Now in our second round of funding, we achieve our aims by combining wide-ranging expertise centered on a single mission, bringing together our team of organic and inorganic chemists, biochemists, spectroscopists, physical chemists, materials scientists, theorists and engineers to approach catalysis in new ways.
BioLEC News
Two BioLEC PIs win prestigious ACS awards
Two BioLEC PIs were recognized with prestigious awards from the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Multi-site collaboration highlights role of national laboratories in BioLEC
A new Nature Communications paper from BioLEC highlights the central and highly collaborative role that national laboratories play within the center.
BioLEC hosts Emmanuel College professor for summer of research
BioLEC was delighted to host Professor Juan Duchimaza Heredia at Princeton Chemistry Department this summer as part of the Visiting Faculty Research Partnership.
American Chemical Society symposium on photocatalysis organized by BioLEC
BioLEC was delighted to organize a symposium at the recent American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting entitled "Photocatalysis for Energy Applications"; the full symposium agenda is available at this link. The symposium ran for three half-day sessions on August 19 and...
BioLEC welcomes two new Distinguished Postdocs
BioLEC is delighted to announce the addition of two new Distinguished Postdocs to our center: Nidhi Kaul and Cole Sorensen. Nidhi joins us from Uppsala University in Sweden, where she worked with Leif Hammarström on the photophysics of carbene complexes. She will be...
BioLEC PI Rob Knowles named a 2024 Brown Investigator
Congratulations to BioLEC PI Rob Knowles, who has been named a 2024 Ross Brown Investigator! The award funds blue-sky, out-of-the-box research for 5 years, and Rob will use it to explore a novel hypothesis on the evolution of homochirality. More details are available...
The BioLEC team consists of multiple research groups from universities and national laboratories across the United States.





