| Claus Dieter Eisenbach | Macromolecular Chemistry | | | 1974 | Werner Joseph Kern (grad student) |
| Hanns-Ludwig Schmidt | General chemistry and biochemistry | | | 1959 | Dietrich Jerchel (grad student) |
| Markus Antonietti | Colloid Chemistry | | | 1985 | Hans Sillescu (grad student) |
| Gerhard Wegner | | | | 1965 | Werner Joseph Kern (grad student), Rolf Christian Schulz (grad student) |
| Andreas F.M. Kilbinger | Olefin metathesis, supramolecular chemistry | | 2003 | 2010 | Holger Frey (research scientist) |
| Arnim Henglein | physical chemistry | | | 1951 | Heinz Ewald (grad student), Joseph Mattauch (grad student) |
| Egon Fahr | | | | | |
| Michael Reggelin | Polymer chemistry, low- and high-molecular weight compounds for organic electronic applications, sulfoximines as chiral auxilliaries, ligands for asymmetric catalysis | | | | |
| Fritz Turba | Physiological chemistry | | | | |
| Dominik Marx | | | 1990 | 1992 | Hans Sillescu (research assistant), Kurt Binder (grad student) |
| Rolf Christian Schulz | Organic chemistry | | | 1951 | Werner Joseph Kern (grad student) |
| Wolfgang Zeier | Structural chemistry of functional materials and its effects on their physical properties, synthetic structural chemistry, solid-state physics and solid-state electrochemistry | | 2010 | 2013 | Wolfgang Tremel (grad student) |
| Ram Seshadri | materials chemistry | | 1997 | 1999 | Wolfgang Tremel (post-doc) |
| William H. Daly | Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Chemistry | | | | Werner Joseph Kern (post-doc) |
| Gabriele Ludewig | Toxicology, Biochemistry, Environmental Health | | | 1991 | Hansruedi Glatt (grad student) |
| Werner Köhler | | | | 1996 | Gerhard Wegner (post-doc) |
| Michael Bockstaller | Polymers | | | 2000 | Gerhard Wegner (grad student) |
| Lan Cheng | Theoretical chemistry, computational chemistry | | 2009 | 2011 | Jürgen Gauss (post-doc) |
| Holger Schönherr | | | | 1995 | Helmut Ringsdorf (research assistant) |
| Frank Rösch | | | | | |
| Ralf Weberskirch | | | | 1999 | Frank Rösch (grad student) |
| Prasun K. Mandal | Spectroscopy, ultrafast fluorescence | | 2007 | 2009 | Thomas Basché (post-doc) |
| Hans-Jörg Krüger | Coordination chemistry of transition metals, Bioinorganic chemistry, redox reactions of organometallic compounds | | | | |
| Thomas Basché | | | | | |
| Hans Rochelmeyer | | | | | |
| Helmut Ritter | | | | | Helmut Ringsdorf (grad student) |
| Karl Lothar Wolf | | | | | |
| Mark Steinmann | | | | | Frederik Wurm (grad student) |
| Tobias Steinbach | | | | | Frederik Wurm (grad student) |
| Seong-Min Jo | | | | | Frederik Wurm (post-doc) |
| Andreas J. Weidkamp | Organometallic chemistry | | | 2014 | Till Opatz (research assistant) |
| Werner Joseph Kern | Macromolecular chemistry | | | | |
| Hans Sillescu | | | | | |
| Gerhard Gattow | Inorganic Chemistry | | | | |
| Fritz Straßmann | Nuclear chemistry | | | | |
| Karl-Ludwig Kratz | Nuclear chemistry, Astrophysics | | | 1972 | Günter Herrmann (grad student) |
| Günter Herrmann | Nuclear chemistry | | | 1956 | Fritz Straßmann (grad student) |
| Dieter Neher | | | | | Gerhard Wegner (grad student) |
| Hartwig Höcker | | | | 1965 | Werner Joseph Kern (grad student) |
| Eric J. Goethals | | | 1963 | 1963 | Rolf Christian Schulz (post-doc) |
| Alfred R. Haug | | | | 1961 | Günter Victor Schulz (grad student) |
| Guido Germano | Scientific Computing, Computational Finance, Statistical Physics, Complex Systems | | | | |
| Chao Zhang | | Chemistry | 2013 | 2014 | Thomas D. Kühne (post-doc) |
| Pouya Partovi-Azar | | Chemistry | 2013 | 2015 | Thomas D. Kühne (post-doc) |
| Wolfgang Tremel | materials chemistry, solid state chemistry, mineralization, nanoparticles, enzyme mimics, chalcogenides, thermoelectrics | | | | |
| Daniel Schärf | | Chemistry | 2010 | 2014 | Thomas D. Kühne (grad student) |
| Rustam Z. Khaliullin | Theoretical Chemistry | Chemistry | 2012 | 2014 | Thomas D. Kühne (post-doc) |
| Holger Frey | | | | | |
| Hossam Elgabarty | | Chemistry | 2013 | 2014 | Thomas D. Kühne (post-doc) |
| Jun Okuda | organometallic chemistry | | | | |
| Karen Lienkamp | Polymer synthesis | Chemistry | 2003 | 2006 | Gerhard Wegner (grad student) |
| Jan Los | | Chemsitry | 2011 | 2014 | Thomas D. Kühne (post-doc) |
| Tanja Schirmeister | Medicinal Chemistry, Antiviral Drugs, Antiparasitic Drugs, Protease Inhibitors, Glycosidase Inhibitors, Covalent Enzyme Inhibitors, Peptide Chemistry, Chemistry of Three-membered Heterocycles, Vinyl sulfone Chemistry, Peptidomimetics, Enzyme Kinetics, Enz | | | | |
| Dipayan Datta | Electronic Structure Theory | Institut für Physikalische Chemie | 2012 | 2014 | Jürgen Gauss (post-doc) |
| Dorothee Richters | | Mathematics | 2010 | 2014 | Thomas D. Kühne (grad student) |
| Shariar Md Abu Sohel | Organic chemistry | of Organic chemistry | | | Till Opatz (post-doc) |
| Frederik Wurm | Polymer Chemistry, Biodegradable Materials | Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry | 2006 | 2009 | Holger Frey (grad student) |
| Ranber Singh | | Physics | 2012 | 2014 | Thomas D. Kühne (post-doc) |
| Sam Azadi | | Physics | 2011 | 2011 | Thomas D. Kühne (post-doc) |
| Francesco Calcavecchia | | Physics | 2010 | 2014 | Thomas D. Kühne (grad student) |
| Artur Baumgaertner | | Physik | 1975 | 1977 | Kurt Binder (grad student) |
| Hansruedi Glatt | Toxicology | | | | |