Teri Odom named IIN Associate Director

We are proud to announce that Teri Odom has been named the new International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) Associate Director. Teri is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Associate Chair of the Chemistry Department, and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. She is the founding Executive Editor of ACS Photonics. She is also a member of the editorial advisory boards of ACS Nano, Chemical Physics Letters, Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry, and Nano Letters. Teri received her B.S. in chemistry from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University under the guidance of Charles M. Lieber. She conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard with George M. Whitesides before joining the faculty at Northwestern University.

In her new role, Teri will work closely with IIN Director, Chad Mirkin, to strengthen our world-class interdisciplinary nanoscale research, enhance collaborations and translational opportunities, support the best and brightest students and career researchers, and invest in critical infrastructure to ensure the success of cutting-edge research to benefit society.