Teri W. Odom. Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist. She is the chair of the chemistry department, the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, and a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. She is affiliated with the university's International Institute for Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, and department of applied physics.

Education
Odom attended Stanford University, where she earned a BS in chemistry, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received the Standford's Marsden Memorial Prize for Chemistry Research (1996). She obtained her PhD in chemical physics from Harvard University in 2001 under the guidance of Charles M. Lieber, then conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard with George M. Whitesides from 2001 to 2002.

Career 
Odom joined Northwestern University's department of chemistry in 2002 and became the department chair in 2018. In 2010, she became the founding chair of the Noble Metal Nanoparticles Gordon Research Conference Between 2016 and 2018, she was associate director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology. Odom has worked on the editorial advisory boards of ACS Nano, Bioconjugate Chemistry, Materials Horizons, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry Natural Sciences, Nano Futures, and Accounts of Chemical Research. Odom became an inaugural associate editor for Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Science journal in 2009, a position she held until 2013. She was on the editorial advisory board of Nano Letters beginning in 2010 and became editor-in-chief in 2019. In 2013, she became a founding Executive Editor for ACS Photonics.

Research interests 
Research in the Odom group focus on controlling materials at 100 nm scale and investigating their size and shape-dependent properties. Odom group has developed parallel, multi-scale pattering tools to generate hierarchical, anisotropic, and 3D hard and soft materials with applications in imaging, sensing, wetting and cancer therapeutics. As a result of Odom's nanofabrication tools, she has developed flat optics that can manipulate light at the nanoscale and beat the diffraction limit and tunable plasmon-based lasers. Odom also conducts research into nanoparticle-cell interactions using new biological nanoconstructs that offer imaging and therapeutic functions due to their shape (gold nanostar).

Personal life 
Odom's husband Brian, now a physicist and astronomer at Northwestern University, piqued her interest in science by introducing her to the double-slit experiment while they were dating. He encouraged her to pursue undergraduate summer research, an experience that inspired her to continue studying physics and chemistry.

Awards and recognition
 1996-1999 - National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
 2001 - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Young Chemists award for thesis
 2001-2002 - National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
 2002 - Research Corporation's Research Innovation Award
 2002 - Dow Teacher-Scholar Award, inaugural recipient
 2003 - American Chemical Society's Victor K. LaMer Award
 2003 - David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow
 2004 - National Science Foundation CAREER Award
 2004 - MIT Technology Review Top 100 Innovators
 2005 - Cottrell Scholar Award
 2005 - DuPont Young Investigator Award
 2005 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
 2006 - ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellow
 2007 - Rohm and Haas New Faculty Award
 2008 - Phi Lambda Upsilon's National Fresenius Award
 2008 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
 2009 - Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award
 2010 - Institute for Defense Analyses's Defense Sciences Study Group (one year)
 2011 - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, Harvard University
 2014 - Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow
 2014 - Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist
 2014 - International Precious Metals Institute's Carol Tyler Award
 2016 - Materials Research Society Fellow
 2016 - Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist
 2017 - ACS Nano Lectureship Award
 2017 - United States Department of Defense Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow
 2018 - American Physical Society Fellow
 2018 - Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar TREE Award
 2018 - Optica Senior Member
 2020 - Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize
 2020 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
 2020 - American Chemical Society's Award in Surface Chemistry
 2022 - American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow
 2022 - American Chemical Society's Crano Memorial Lecture (Akron Section) at Malone University
 2022 - American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

References

External links

Northwestern Chemistry Faculty bio
The Odom Research Group

Living people
21st-century American chemists
American materials scientists
Northwestern University faculty
Stanford University alumni
Harvard University alumni
American women chemists
Women materials scientists and engineers
1970s births
American women academics
Solid state chemists
21st-century American women scientists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Nanophysicists
American nanotechnologists
Sloan Research Fellows
Radcliffe fellows
Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science