Fields of Study:

Metal ions in biology, catalysis, and the origins of life. Iron storage in bacteria. Bacterioferritin and biomineralization. Nitrogen fixation, molybdenum enzymes, and models. Enzyme mechanisms. Synthetic inorganic chemistry. Affiliated with Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)

Brief Biography:

Prior to coming to Princeton, Stiefel was a Senior Scientific Advisor at ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research and a Senior Investigator at the Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory. He is on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and winner of the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry for the year 2000. He is the founding co-chair (with François Morel) of the Inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry (June 2002).


Edward I. Stiefel
Department of Chemistry
101 Hoyt Laboratory
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1009

Email: estiefel@princeton.edu
Voice: 609-258-2065
Fax: 609-258-6746