Claudia Turro

Claudia Turro is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University. The Turro group is interested in understanding and utilizing reactions of metal complexes that can be initiated with light. The potential applications of these reactions span the areas of photochemotherapy (PCT) for the treatment of various diseases, luminescent reporters and sensors, and solar energy conversion. The work in the Turro group focuses on the control and dynamics of excited states, including photophysical properties, and reactivity, including energy transfer, charge separation and recombination, and photochemical reactions.

Turro received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University, working with Daniel G. Nocera and George E. Leroi, and conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University with Nicholas J. Turro (no relation). She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.