Anna Wuttig

Prof. Anna Wuttig was born in Washington, D.C., and she spent time in Germany, Japan, and the U.S. during her early years. She received her A.B. from Princeton University, where she was introduced to scientific research in laboratories of Profs. Haw Yang, Robert Cava, and Andrew Bocarsly. She received her Ph.D. from MIT with Prof. Yogesh Surendranath, and she was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley in Prof. F. Dean Toste’s research group.  She joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department and established her research group in July 2021. Her research interests center on the development of electricity-driven chemical reactions, with an emphasis on embracing the inherent structural disorder in heterogeneous electrocatalysis and developing interdisciplinary concepts to understand and manipulate it.