| Alexander S.S. Dömling | Drug Design | | | 1994 | Ivar Karl Ugi (grad student) |
| Joachim Frank | cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of ribosomes | | | 1970 | Walter Hoppe (grad student) |
| Raphael J. F. Berger | Inorganic Chemistry | | 1999 | 2002 | Hubert Schmidbaur (grad student) |
| Cecil J. Watson | Porphyrins, Porphyria, Bile Pigments | | 1930 | 1932 | Hans Fischer (post-doc) |
| Robert E. Bachman | Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry | | 1994 | 1995 | Hubert Schmidbaur (post-doc) |
| François P. Gabbaï | main group chemistry | | | 1998 | Hubert Schmidbaur (post-doc) |
| Robert J. Angelici | Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis | | | 1964 | Ernst Otto Fischer (post-doc) |
| Alexander Constantin Filippou | Organometallic Chemistry | | | 1984 | Ernst Otto Fischer (grad student) |
| Ulrich Schubert | | | 1972 | 1974 | Ernst Otto Fischer (grad student) |
| Wolfgang Domcke | Theoretical chemistry | | | 1975 | Wilhelm Brenig (grad student) |
| Dale F. Mierke | Biophysical chemistry, high resolution NMR, peptide hormone structure and function | | 1990 | 1993 | Horst C. Kessler (post-doc) |
| Gerhard Wagner | structural aspects of protein function | | | 1971 | Adalbert Mayer-Heinricy (research assistant) |
| Heinz G. Floss | biosynthesis of antibiotics and related natural products | | | 1961 | Friedrich Weygand (grad student) |
| ZhengGang Lan | | | | 2007 | Wolfgang Domcke (grad student) |
| Jörn Manz | quantumdynamic methods for chemical elementary reactions | | | 1972 | G. Ludwig Hofacker (grad student) |
| Guillermo Moreno-Alcantar | Coordination Chemistry | | 2021 | | Angela Casini (post-doc) |
| Oskar Nuyken | | | | | |
| Georg Süss-Fink | | | | 1977 | Max Herberhold (grad student) |
| Julio Cesar Espinoza Campos | Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Thermodynamics | | | | |
| Thomas Böttcher | Chemical Biology, Natural Products, Enzyme Inhibitors | | 2010 | 2010 | Stephan Sieber (post-doc) |
| Sayam Sen Gupta | Inorganic Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering | | 2005 | 2006 | Thomas Scheibel (post-doc) |
| Thomas Scheibel | | | | | |
| Hans Fischer | Organic chemistry, natural products chemistry | | | | |
| Matthias Arenz | | | 2004 | 2006 | Ueli Heiz (research scientist) |
| Maxim F. Gelin | | | 2002 | 2003 | Wolfgang Domcke (post-doc) |
| Ernst Otto Fischer | Inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry | | | | |
| Hemlata Agarwala | | | | | |
| Ben A. Johnson | | | | | Nicolas Plumeré (post-doc) |
| Nicolas Plumeré | | | | | |
| Peter Schellenberg | | | 1999 | 2000 | Maria Elisabeth Michel-Beyerle (post-doc) |
| Agnes Jocher | | | | | |
| Vladimir E. Bondybey | | | | | |
| Fengming Rong | Organometallic Chemistry, Main Group Chemistry | | | | |
| Yan-Xia Chen | Spectro-electrochemistry | | 2001 | 2001 | Ulrich Stimming (post-doc) |
| Andrei Tokmakoff | ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy to study the molecular dynamics of chemical reactions in solution and biological processes | | 1995 | 1996 | Alfred Laubereau (post-doc) |
| Marvin D. Rausch | organometallic chemistry | | 1957 | 1958 | Ernst Otto Fischer (post-doc) |
| Ivar Karl Ugi | multicomponent reactions | | | | |
| Stephan Goldschmidt | Aromatic and Radicalchemistry | | | | |
| Sabyashachi Mishra | Computational and Theoretical Chemistry | | 2003 | 2007 | Wolfgang Domcke (grad student) |
| James Wilton-Ely | functionalised nanostructures,multimetallic complexes, Multifunctional MRI contrast agents | | | | |
| Zhu Liu | | | | | |
| Otto Dopfer | | | 1991 | 1994 | Edward W. Schlag (grad student) |
| Martin Thämer | | | 2008 | 2012 | Ueli Heiz (grad student) |
| Jakob Burger | | | | | |
| Ashkan Karimi | DNA robotics, Molecular machines, Bioorganic chemistry, Synthetic Biology, Biophysics | Bioscience | 2022 | | Friedrich Simmel (post-doc) |
| Cornelius Gerhard Kreiter | | Chemistry | | | Ernst Otto Fischer (grad student) |
| Horst C. Kessler | Synthesis and structure of peptides | | | | |
| Dorit Shemesh | Atmospheric chemistry | Chemistry | | | Wolfgang Domcke (post-doc) |
| Johannes Buchner | Chaperones, protein aggregation,protein folding | | | | |
| Klaus Burger | | Department of Chemistry | | | Friedrich Weygand (research assistant) |
| Sachin G Modha | organic chemistry | | | | |
| Norbert Sewald | Bioorganic Chemistry, Biocatalysis | Department of Chemistry | 1988 | 1991 | Klaus Burger (grad student) |
| Harald Oberhofer | | | | | |
| Weining Zhao | Chemical Biology, Proteomics | Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry | 2016 | 2018 | Stephan Sieber (grad student), Stephan Sieber (post-doc) |
| Ralph Gilles | | | | | |
| Hubert Schmidbaur | Chemistry of Silicon, Phosphorus, Beryllium, Gallium, Gold | | | | |
| Raghavender Medishetty | Crystal Engineering, Hybrid materials, Photochemistry, Photophics and NLO properties | Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry | | | Roland A. Fischer (post-doc) |
| Jinglin Zuo | | Inorganic Chemistry Institute | 2000 | 2001 | Wolfgang A. Herrmann (post-doc) |
| Fritz Seel | Inorganic chemistry | Institute of Inorganic Chemistry | | 1940 | Walter Otto Hieber (grad student) |
| Shigeyoshi Inoue | Main Group Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Silicon Chemistry, Catalysis | | | | |
| Thorsten Bach | | | | | |
| Stefan F. Kirsch | | Organic Chemistry | 2000 | 2003 | Thorsten Bach (grad student) |
| Edward W. Schlag | spectroscopy and dynamics—principally ZEKE spectroscopy, but also multiphoton mass spectrometry, radiationless processes, cluster research, unimolecular reactions, electron transfer and ionization mechanisms | | | | |
| Wilhelm Brenig | Theoretical physics | | | | |
| Jeongsik Yun | Physics, Electrochemistry, Battery | Physics Department | 2014 | 2020 | Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka (grad student) |
| Pablo Zambrano | Origin of Life | Supramolecular Chemistry | 2022 | 2024 | Job Boekhoven (post-doc) |
| Marie Bachmaier | | TUM School of Natural Science | | | Julian Geilenkeuser (research assistant) |