Dr. Michael Neidig

Biography

Originally from a dairy farming community in rural Pennsylvania, Michael received his BA in Chemistry from Colgate University in 1999. He pursued studies at the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar, leading to an MPhil degree in Chemistry, before moving to Stanford University, where he received his PhD in Chemistry in 2007 under Professor Edward Solomon. After brief roles at Dow Chemical as a Senior Research Chemist and at Los Alamos National Lab as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Michael joined the University of Rochester's Department of Chemistry as an Assistant Professor in 2011. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and to Professor in 2020, holding the Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professorship in Chemistry in 2021. In 2022, he moved to the University of Oxford as a Professor of Chemistry and Tutorial Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry at Magdalen College. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Sloan Research Fellowship (2015), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2015), the DOE Early Career Award (2016), and the EPSRC Open Fellowship (2025).

Research Interests