Faculty – MIT Department of Chemistry

Visiting Professor Robert J. Gilliard Awarded 2021 Packard Fellowship

Gilliard is one of 20 scientists and engineers at the forefront of their fields to be awarded $875K for their world-changing research.

Awards support high-risk, high-reward biomedical and behavioral research.

Recipients of this prize hold high promise or have achieved prominence while developing the early stages of a career in biophysical research.

This award is given annually to recognize and encourage fundamental research in pure chemistry carried out by young researchers in North America.

The paper, Dynamical Symmetries and Symmetry-Protected Selection Rules in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems, was published online on March 2, 2021.

This award is given biennially in recognition of broad scoping impact in the areas of chemical synthesis, method development, and beyond.

General Chemistry II: Chemical Equilibrium, Kinetics, and Transition Metals, aka 5.02x, debuted on the EdX platform on September 9, 2021.

Record number of honorees will engage in the life of the Institute through teaching, research, and other interactions with the MIT community.

MONET will bring together experts in polymer chemistry, synthetic methods, photochemistry, multi-scale modeling and bioconjugation.