Christy F. Landes is the Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining UIUC, she was the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Chair Professor of Chemistry at Rice University with appointments in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. She earned her BS from George Mason University in 1998 and completed a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 under the direction of Mostafa El-Sayed. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oregon and an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Geraldine Richmond and Paul Barbara, respectively.
Christy is the Director of the NSF Phase I Center for Adapting Flaws into Features. She is the 2023 Chair of the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Christy is a senior editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of ACS Nano and Accounts of Chemical Research. She is a Kavli Fellow and an ACS Fellow. Her awards include the ACS Early-Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry and the Langmuir Lectureship.