Nancy Makri received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. She is a professor in the U of I Department of Chemistry and a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials group. Her field of interest is quantum dynamics of polyatomic systems.
Honors: Bodossahi Academic Prize in Physical Sciences (2000); Academic Prize in Physical Sciences, Bodossaki Foundation (1999); University Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999); Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award, Iota Sigma Pi (1999); Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation (1994); Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred Sloan Foundation (1994); Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, David and Lucile Packard Foundation (1993); NSF Young Investigator Award (1993); Beckman Fellow, UIUC Center for Advanced Study (1993-94); Beckman Young Investigator Award, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (1993).