living healthy on a dying planet

Living healthy on a dying planet—we are a world out of balance. Relying on science to improve the health of the individual with the design of new drugs and therapies, we are neglectful of the health of our humanity at a global level. Disease indeed does compromise humankind’s very existence … but it is not disease inflicted on humans … rather it is the disease inflicted by humans on our planet. Climate change continues to outpace the implementation of renewable energy at an alarming rate. With an understanding that the under-served populations of our global society, without large energy infrastructures, will largely drive climate change by mid-century, our research is particularly focused on developing the science that underpins the implementation of distributed energy systems and processes. In the Nocera group, students with expertise in all areas of chemical science apply their craft to addressing society’s greatest challenge in the 21st century—the delivery of carbon-neutral and sustainable processes to all (including the poor) on our planet. In pursuing this goal, science in the Nocera group delves into the subjects of inorganic, organic, materials, physical and biological chemistry.