Teri W. Odom is the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. She earned her BS in Chemistry from Stanford University and her PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University. She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Harvard before joining the faculty at Northwestern in 2002. Odom is an expert in the design of structured nanoscale materials that exhibit extraordinary size and shape-dependent optical and physical properties.

Odom is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Optica, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is Senior Member of SPIE. Select awards include the SPIE Mozi Award, RSC Centenary Prize, the ACS National Award in Surface Science, a Department of Defense Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was the founding chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Noble Metal Nanoparticles and is Editor-in-Chief of Nano Letters.