Nicola Pohl named Caldwell Professor of Chemistry

Nicola Pohl, associate professor of chemistry, has been named the new Caldwell Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University.

A member of the Plant Sciences Institute, Pohl’s laboratory is developing new tools to make carbohydrates and the proteins that build carbohydrate structures much easier to study.

She is a Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and has previously received a five-year, $510,000 Faculty Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation to pursue further understanding into carbohydrates.

She has been a member of the Iowa State faculty since 2000.