Teri W. Odom

Teri W. Odom is the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. She earned her BS in Chemistry from Stanford University and her PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University. She was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and joined the faculty in Chemistry at Northwestern in 2002. Odom is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Optica, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is Senior Member of SPIE. She was the founder of the Gordon Research Conference on Noble Metal Nanoparticles and is Editor-in-Chief of Nano Letters. Awards include the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the National Award in Surface Science from the American Chemical Society, a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense, and the Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health.