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Andrei Tokmakoff is an American experimental physical chemist. He is currently the Henry G. Gale Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. He is primarily recognized in the field of ultrafast spectroscopy for pioneering the development of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy, and its applications in water chemistry and protein dynamics.

After graduating from California State University, Sacramento in 1989 with a B.S. in Chemistry, he earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University training with Michael Fayer. He held postdoctoral positions at the Technical University of Munich, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley.

From 1998 to 2012, Tokmakoff was a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts institute of Technology. In 2013, Tokmakoff moved to the University of Chicago, where he holds appointments in the Department of Chemistry, the James Franck Institute, and the Institute of Biophysical Dynamics.

Tokmakoff has been awarded the National Fresenius Award, and the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, and the Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

External links

Tokmakoff Research Group: http://tokmakofflab.uchicago.edu/