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Honored and grateful to receive the 2026 Kyoto Rising-Star Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan!
Heartfelt thanks to Prof. Keiji Maruoka and all the organizers and hosts for a wonderful tour across Japan. A pleasure to share this experience with @anna_wuttig !View quoted post on X
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Dr. Dan Laorenza will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor this July. Currently an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, Dr. Laorenza will lead a new research group at the University of Chicago dedicated to the intersection of inorganic chemistry and materials science.
The Laorenza Group will leverage fundamental principles of inorganic chemistry to engineer materials with tunable quantum states, multimodal sensing capabilities, and local control of electronic spins. Across these areas, the group will control structure from the molecular level to the mesoscale. This precision will enable the design of many-body physics in hybrid materials, the tailoring of stimulus-responsive behavior in emissive phase-change nanoparticles, and the development of electrical control in paramagnetic systems.
Central to the group’s mission is a "make-and-measure" philosophy. This approach ensures that students are trained to both create and interrogate their own materials, providing them with a broad and rigorous experience in synthesis, crystallography, magnetism, and spectroscopy. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the research, the Laorenza Group looks forward to fostering a highly collaborative environment within the University of Chicago community.
#UChicago #UChiChemistry #InorganicChemistry #Chemistry #Newfaculty #laorenzagroup #ArnoldBeckmanView quoted post on X
