Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist. She is the Chair of the Chemistry Department, Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. She studied at Stanford University, 1996 and had her PhD at Harvard University, 2001 and NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University, 2002

Her major professional Interest are Nanoscience; Plasmonics and Nanophotonics; Optical properties of Nanomaterials; Imaging; large area Nanofabrication; materials chemistry; cancer therapeutics.

Member of American Chemical Society (ACS), American Physical Society (APS), American Vacuum Society (AVS), Materials Research Society (MRS), Optica, Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), American Association of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)

About her research: her group focuses on designing structured nanoscale materials with exceptional properties. We make precious metals more precious by tuning the size and shape of noble metals at the nanoscale. We transform ordinary materials into extra-ordinary ones by controlling their architectures over multiple length scales. We use modeling to assist in understanding the properties of single structures as well as collective effects of assemblies of nanoparticles. Applications of our unique materials include nanomedicine, nano-lasing, photovoltaics, wetting, and imaging.