Lauren Webb

  • Professor
  • Associate Dean for Graduate Education
  • Chemistry
  • Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Joseph & Jeanne Lagowski Professor in Chemistry

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Contact Information

Biography

Lauren Webb earned an A.B. in chemistry from Bowdoin College in 2000 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 2005, where she was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She then completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in Steven Boxer's laboratory at Stanford University from 2005 to 2008. Webb joined the chemistry faculty in 2008 and later became associate dean for graduate education. Her honors include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, the College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award and the Iota Sigma Pi Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award.

Research

Research Areas

  • Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
  • Materials Science

Fields of Interest

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Chemical Biology
  • Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Physical Chemistry