B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry Contact Information dginger@uw.edu 206-685-2331 BAG 303E Personal Website Accepting new graduate students Fields of Interest Analytical Chemistry Clean Energy Materials Physical Chemistry Biography Ph.D. Physics, University of Cambridge, 2001 Awards and Honors Fellow, Materials Research Society, 2023 Washington State Academy of Sciences, Elected Member, 2018 Transformational Research and Excellence in Education (TREE) Award, Research Corporation, 2017 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, Chemistry Finalist, 2016 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012 Burton Medal, Microscopy Society of America, 2012 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2007 Sloan Fellowship, 2007 Cottrell Scholar, Research Corporation, 2006 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2005 Courses Taught Spring 2025CHEM 142 A: General Chemistry CHEM 595 A: Seminar in Physical Chemistry CHEM 600 AI: Independent Study or Research CHEM 800 AI: Doctoral Dissertation Summer 2024CHEM 590 B: Seminar in General Chemistry Summer 2023CHEM 499 C: Undergraduate Research and Report Writing CHEM 590 A: Seminar in General Chemistry Winter 2023CHEM 595 A: Seminar in Physical Chemistry Autumn 2022CHEM 455 A: Physical Chemistry Spring 2022CHEM 455 A: Physical Chemistry Winter 2022CHEM 595 A: Seminar in Physical Chemistry Resources & Related Links UW Clean Energy Institute IMOD Science and Technology Center Affiliations Home Department Chemistry Related News Related News NSF awards UW partners $13.6M to broaden access in the sciences (November 13, 2024) Breaking Boundaries: IMOD's Collaborative Approach to Research and Talent Building (August 20, 2024) Scientists solve chemical mystery at the interface of biology and technology (May 1, 2024) CEI launches graduate certificate in Clean Energy Science, Engineering, and Society (January 23, 2024) Fellowships, Awards & Honors: Faculty, Staff & Postdocs (June 30, 2023) From the Chair - Summer 2022 (August 19, 2022) Zack Herbst wins Partner in Safety Award from UW EH&S (January 11, 2022) NSF to fund revolutionary center for optoelectronic, quantum technologies (September 9, 2021) Grad student ‘ambassadors’ offer free clean-energy lessons and DIY solar kits to K-12 students (May 28, 2020) Solar researchers across country join forces with industry to boost U.S. solar manufacturing (May 8, 2020) New DOE awards for Chemistry research to probe solar cell defects, develop energy-boosting coatings (June 24, 2019) David Ginger, Sotiris Xantheas elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences (August 15, 2018) UW and PNNL launch NW IMPACT in joint pursuit of new materials (February 2, 2018) Recent work by David Ginger and coworkers published in Nature Materials (June 21, 2017) David Ginger receives 2017 Cottrell Scholars TREE Award (March 14, 2017)
