Craig Hill, PhD

Research Program

Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics
Phone Number

404-727-6611
Email Address

chill@emory.edu

Biography

Craig Hill, PhD, is the Goodrich C. White Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Emory University. Dr. Hill is a member of the Discovery and Development Therapeutics Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.

Education

Dr. Hill received his PhD in organic and materials chemistry from MIT. He then went on to complete his post doctorate (NSF Fellows) at Stanford University in inorganic and biological chemistry.

Titles & Roles

Goodrich C. White Professor, Department of Chemistry

Emory University

Research

Dr. Hill is working on developing a library of first-in-class potent anti-cancer chemotherapeutics. He has trained close to 140 PhDs and postdoctoral fellows on a range of projects in catalysis, nanoscale molecules, antiviral chemotherapy, photochemistry and reaction mechanisms that have been published in over 450 articles that have been cited 24,000 times (H index of 81).

Publications

Title/Journal	Authors	Publication Date
Operando Contactless EFISH Study of the Rate-Determining Step of Light-Driven Water Oxidation on TiO₂ Photoanodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society	F Zhao, Z Xu, S Suo, Y Xu, CL Hill, DG Musaev, T Lian	06/04/2025
A contactless in situ EFISH method for measuring electrostatic potential profile of semiconductor/electrolyte junctions. The Journal of chemical physics	F Zhao, Z Xu, S Suo, L Lin, CL Hill, DG Musaev, T Lian	09/07/2024
Charge Transfer Mechanism on a Cobalt-Polyoxometalate-TiO₂ Photoanode for Water Oxidation in Acid. Journal of the American Chemical Society	F Zhao, T Cheng, X Lu, N Ghorai, Y Yang, YV Geletii, DG Musaev, CL Hill, T Lian	05/29/2024
Accelerating water oxidation - a mixed Co/Fe polyoxometalate with improved turnover characteristics. Chemical science	J Soriano-López, FW Steuber, M Mulahmetović, M Besora, JM Clemente-Juan, M O'Doherty, NY Zhu, CL Hill, E Coronado, JM Poblet, W Schmitt	12/06/2023
Role of Multiple Vanadium Centers on Redox Buffering and Rates of Polyvanadomolybdate-Cu(II)-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidations. Inorganic chemistry	X Lu, YV Geletii, T Cheng, CL Hill	04/10/2023
Direct In Situ Measurement of Quantum Efficiencies of Charge Separation and Proton Reduction at TiO₂-Protected GaP Photocathodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society	Z Xu, B Hou, F Zhao, S Suo, Y Liu, H Shi, Z Cai, CL Hill, DG Musaev, M Mecklenburg, SB Cronin, T Lian	02/08/2023
Catalytic System for Aerobic Oxidation That Simultaneously Functions as Its Own Redox Buffer. Inorganic chemistry	X Lu, T Cheng, YV Geletii, CL Hill	02/06/2023
Functionalized reactive polymers for the removal of chemical warfare agents: A review. Journal of hazardous materials	VG Snider, CL Hill	01/15/2023
Structurally Precise Two-Transition-Metal Water Oxidation Catalysts: Quantifying Adjacent 3d Metals by Synchrotron X-Radiation Anomalous Dispersion Scattering. Inorganic chemistry	M Tao, Q Yin, AL Kaledin, N Uhlikova, X Lu, T Cheng, YS Chen, T Lian, YV Geletii, DG Musaev, J Bacsa, CL Hill	04/25/2022
Materials for the Simultaneous Entrapment and Catalytic Aerobic Oxidative Removal of Sulfur Mustard Simulants. ACS applied materials & interfaces	VG Snider, R Alshehri, RM Slaugenhaupt, CL Hill	11/03/2021
Nanoscale TiO₂ Protection Layer Enhances the Built-In Field and Charge Separation Performance of GaP Photoelectrodes. Nano letters	Z Xu, B Hou, F Zhao, Z Cai, H Shi, Y Liu, CL Hill, DG Musaev, M Mecklenburg, SB Cronin, T Lian	10/13/2021
A solvent-free solid catalyst for the selective and color-indicating ambient-air removal of sulfur mustard. Communications chemistry	DL Collins-Wildman, KP Sullivan, YV Geletii, VG Snider, WO Gordon, A Balboa, Y Tian, RM Slaugenhaupt, AL Kaledin, CJ Karwacki, AI Frenkel, DG Musaev, CL Hill	03/08/2021
Ion-pairing in polyoxometalate chemistry: impact of fully hydrated alkali metal cations on properties of the keggin [PW₁₂O₄₀]^3- anion. Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)	AL Kaledin, Q Yin, CL Hill, T Lian, DG Musaev	08/28/2020
Metal-Organic Framework- and Polyoxometalate-Based Sorbents for the Uptake and Destruction of Chemical Warfare Agents. ACS applied materials & interfaces	TG Grissom, AM Plonka, CH Sharp, AM Ebrahim, Y Tian, DL Collins-Wildman, AL Kaledin, HJ Siegal, D Troya, CL Hill, AI Frenkel, DG Musaev, WO Gordon, CJ Karwacki, MB Mitchell, JR Morris	04/01/2020
Multimodal Characterization of Materials and Decontamination Processes for Chemical Warfare Protection. ACS applied materials & interfaces	AM Ebrahim, AM Plonka, Y Tian, SD Senanayake, WO Gordon, A Balboa, H Wang, DL Collins-Wildman, CL Hill, DG Musaev, JR Morris, D Troya, AI Frenkel	04/01/2020
A Polyoxometalate-Based Microfluidic Device for Liquid-Phase Oxidation of Glycerol. ChemSusChem	M Tao, Y Li, X Zhang, Z Li, CL Hill, X Wang	06/21/2019
Correlated Multimodal Approach Reveals Key Details of Nerve-Agent Decomposition by Single-Site Zr-Based Polyoxometalates. The journal of physical chemistry letters	Y Tian, AM Plonka, AM Ebrahim, RM Palomino, SD Senanayake, A Balboa, WO Gordon, D Troya, DG Musaev, JR Morris, MB Mitchell, DL Collins-Wildman, CL Hill, AI Frenkel	05/02/2019
Modulating electronic coupling at the quantum dot/molecule interface by wavefunction engineering. The Journal of chemical physics	AL Kaledin, CL Hill, T Lian, DG Musaev	03/28/2019
A bulk adjusted linear combination of atomic orbitals (BA-LCAO) approach for nanoparticles. Journal of computational chemistry	AL Kaledin, CL Hill, T Lian, DG Musaev	01/05/2019

Awards

He has won many national and international awards, including 3 of the American Chemical Society. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Victorian Institute of Chemical Sciences (Australia), the Academia Europaea and most recently the Royal Society of Chemistry.