| Pablo Alborés | | | 2007 | 2009 | Eva Rentschler (post-doc) |
| Valerie Sheares Ashby | Polymer Design & Synthesis, Polymer Composites, Biomaterial Synthesis | | 1994 | 1995 | Reimund Stadler (post-doc) |
| Matthias Ballauff | | | | 1981 | Bernhard. A. Wolf (grad student) |
| Tobias Baumgart | physical chemistry of amphiphile membranes | | | 2001 | Wolfgang Knoll (grad student) |
| Pol Besenius | Supramolecular Chemistry, Polymer and Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry | | | | |
| Hans-Joachim Cantow | Macromolecular Chemistry | | | 1950 | Günter Victor Schulz (grad student) |
| Yann Garcia | | | | | Philipp Gütlich (post-doc) |
| Philipp Gütlich | Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry | | | | |
| Andreas Herrmann | Organic Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | | | 2000 | Klaus Müllen (grad student) |
| Leopold Horner | asymmetric catalysis | | | | |
| Dietrich Jerchel | | | | | |
| Ludovic Jullien | Chemistry / Biophysics | | | 1991 | Helmut Ringsdorf (post-doc) |
| Horst Kunz | stereoselective reactions and the synthesis and development of methods in alkaloid, peptide, carbohydrate and glycopeptide chemistry | | | 1969 | Leopold Horner (grad student) |
| Nicolai Lehnert | biological role of nitric oxide, homogeneous catalysts for the generation of the sustainable energy carrier hydrogen, porphyrin-based materials for non-linear optics | | | 1999 | Felix Tuczek (grad student) |
| Axel H. E. Müller | Macromolecular chemistry | | | 1977 | Günter Victor Schulz (grad student) |
| Lutz Nuhn | | chemistry | 2010 | 2015 | Rudolf Zentel (grad student) |
| Till Opatz | Organic Chemistry | | | | Horst Kunz (grad student) |
| Eva Rentschler | | | | | |
| Helmut Ringsdorf | polymers, supramolecular systems, nanomedicine | | | | |
| Manfred Schmidt | | | | | |
| Hans-Werner Schmidt | | Chemistry | | 1984 | Helmut Ringsdorf (grad student) |
| Klaus Schmidt-Rohr | Physical Chemistry of Polymers & Nanocomposites, Analysis of Complex Organic Matter, Solid-state NMR Methods | | | 1991 | Hans W. Spiess (grad student) |
| Günter Victor Schulz | | | | | |
| Manas Sutradhar | | | 2009 | 2011 | Eva Rentschler (post-doc) |
| Patrick Theato | | | 1998 | 2001 | Rudolf Zentel (grad student) |
| Felix Tuczek | Inorganic Chemistry | | | 1989 | Philipp Gütlich (grad student) |
| Herbert Waldmann | Chemical Biology | | 1976 | 1985 | Horst Kunz (grad student) |
| Marcus Weck | organic and polymer chemistry, materials science | | 1993 | 1994 | Helmut Ringsdorf (research assistant) |
| Hans Weidmann | | | | 1956 | Dietrich Jerchel (grad student) |
| Bernhard. A. Wolf | | | | | |
| Aswani Yella | | Chemistry | 2007 | 2010 | Wolfgang Tremel (grad student) |
| Rudolf Zentel | | Chemistry | 1979 | 1983 | Helmut Ringsdorf (grad student) |