Rod Macrae

Rod Macrae is Lechleiter Professor of Chemistry at Marian University Indianapolis. Raised on the island of Lewis and Harris in Scotland – the northern and southern parts of the island have different names – he was educated in chemistry at Glasgow University, receiving both B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees there. After graduation from university, the pursuit of research took him around the world, including over six years spent in Japan working primarily at accelerator facilities, where he investigated the structure of matter with the help of unstable elementary particles called muons. He transitioned to a teaching-focused career shortly after coming to the US, and has been at Marian since 2002, where he has taught a broad range of courses and directed student research projects on a wide variety of topics. His main research interests are in theoretical and computational chemistry and spectroscopy. Besides his passions for science and education, Rod is enthusiastic about literature, music, and the arts, and enjoys live performance from butoh to burlesque.