Biosketch

Martin (Marty) T. Zanni is the F. Fleming Crim Professor and Meloche-Bascom Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He grew up in Vancouver, WA, before attending the University of Rochester where he majored in chemistry and physics, working in the laboratories of Jim Farrar and Frank Wolfs. Zanni received his PhD in 1999 from the University of California-Berkeley under the mentorship of Dan Neumark and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania with Robin Hochstrasser. He started at UW-Madison in 2002. He has been an editor with the American Chemical Society for many years, first as an Associate and then Deputy Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry and later with Chemical Reviews. Among other honors, he is the only person to have received the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award as both a student and a mentor and the first person to receive the triumvirate Craver, Coblentz, and Lippincott Awards.

Research Interests

My research group and I have made many technological innovations that have broadened the capabilities and scope of multidimensional ultrafast spectroscopies and microscopies. We utilize these new techniques to study topics in biophysics, chemistry and material science, providing insights into molecular structures and dynamics that are difficult to determine in other ways. We have studied energy flow through new types of semiconductors and the biophysics of amyloid fibril formation, to name two examples. The scope of our research program is continually evolving, with our latest two thrusts being device measurements and the design of transgenic mice.

Membership Type

Member

Election Year

2025

Primary Section

Section 14: Chemistry

Secondary Section

Section 29: Biophysics and Computational Biology