Narayana Aluru, the Richard W. Kritzer Professor in MechSE, is part of the new Computational Molecular Science (CMS) Group recently established within the Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures research theme at the Beckman Institute.
Understanding various chemical reactions and transport phenomena from the molecular and electronic level; designing new synthetic pathways for radical forms of materials and medicines; characterizing and rationalizing the behavior of matter far away from equilibrium—these are just a few of the grand scientific and engineering challenges that this research group aims to tackle.