Marissa L. Weichman, Ph.D.

Marissa L. Weichman is an assistant professor of chemistry at Princeton University. She is an experimental physical chemist whose interests lie broadly in using interactions with light to probe, understand, and control the behavior of complex chemical systems, including atmospheric aerosols. Weichman obtained her B.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 2012 and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. She carried out postdoctoral research at JILA/University of Colorado Boulder and began her independent career at Princeton in July 2020. Her group’s work has been recognized with a 2022 Department of Energy Early Career award, 2023 NSF CAREER award, a 2023 Packard Foundation fellowship, a 2024 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and a 2025 Cottrell Scholar Award.