| Kurt Dehnicke | main-group elements and transition metals | | | 1957 | Josef Goubeau (grad student) |
| Rolf Gleiter | organic chemistry | | 1962 | 1964 | Franz Effenberger (grad student) |
| Albert Weller | Electrochemistry; Spectroscopy | | | 1958 | Theodor Förster (post-doc) |
| Ulrich Gösele | | | | 1975 | Alfred Seeger (grad student) |
| Kornelius Nielsch | | | | 2002 | Ulrich Gösele (grad student) |
| Toru Shiozaki | Theoretical chemistry | | 2010 | 2012 | Hans-Joachim Werner (post-doc) |
| Karl Otto Christe | inorganic chemistry | | | | Josef Goubeau (grad student) |
| Ulrich Müller | Inorganic chemistry | | | 1966 | Kurt Dehnicke (grad student) |
| Oleksii Laguta | | | 2017 | 2018 | Joris van Slageren (post-doc) |
| Koushani Kundu | polymer Chemistry | | | | |
| Petr Neugebauer | | | | 2018 | Joris van Slageren (post-doc) |
| Stephan Hohloch | Inorganic Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Early Transition Metals, f-Block Elements, Catalysis | | 2007 | 2010 | Wolfgang Kaim (research assistant) |
| Peter Košovan | | | 2010 | 2013 | Christian Holm (post-doc) |
| Azade Yazdan Yar | | | 2021 | 2022 | Maria Fyta (post-doc) |
| Hermann Schmalzried | | | | 1958 | Theodor Förster (research assistant), Richard Glocker (grad student) |
| V. Ramanathan | Laser Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy and Imaging, Computational chemistry | | 2011 | 2012 | Andreas Volkmer (post-doc) |
| Holger Schmidt | | | | 1994 | Manfred Pilkuhn (research assistant) |
| Oliver Clemens | Materials Chemistry | | | | |
| René Peters | asymmetric catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, cooperative catalysis, organic synthesis, heterocycles | | | | |
| Ulrich Schwaneberg | | | | | Rolf Dieter Schmid (grad student) |
| Rainer Niewa | solid state chemistry | | | | |
| Josef Goubeau | inorganic chemistry | | | | |
| Franz Effenberger | organic chemistry | | | | |
| Heinzwerner Preuß | Theoretical Chemistry | | | | |
| Otto Buck | | | | | Alfred Seeger (grad student) |
| Dietrich Gudat | | | | | Edgar Niecke (grad student) |
| Joris van Slageren | molecular magnetism; molecular spintronics; magnetic resonance | | | | |
| Haël Mughrabi | | | | 1970 | Alfred Seeger (grad student) |
| Christoph Albermann | | Biochemical Engineering | 2001 | 2003 | Jon S. Thorson (post-doc) |
| Kirk A. Peterson | | Chemistry | 1990 | 1992 | Hans-Joachim Werner (research scientist) |
| Rajarshi Chakrabarti | Statistical Mechanics, Polymer Physics, Theoretical Physical Chemistry, Soft Matter, Biophysics | Department of Physics | 2011 | 2012 | Christian Holm (post-doc) |
| Khatuna Kakhiani | Deep Learning, ML/AI, Theoretical condensed matter, graphene manipulations, theoretical chemical kinetics, chemical reactions dynamics | | | | |
| Karl Wilhelm Klinkhammer | Organosilicon Chemistry, Low-valent Main Group Metal Chemistry, Coinage Metal Chemistry, Computational Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry | 1989 | 1993 | Gerd Becker (grad student) |
| Matthias Westerhausen | | Inorganic Chemistry | | 1987 | Gerd Becker (grad student) |
| Gerd Becker | | | | | |
| Milán Szőri | computational chemistry | Institute for Theoretical Chemistry | 2003 | 2004 | Hans-Joachim Werner (grad student) |
| Johannes Kästner | | | | | |
| Christopher N Shingledecker | Molecular Astrophysics, Radiation Processes, Monte Carlo Modeling | Institute for Theoretical Chemistry | 2018 | 2020 | Johannes Kästner (post-doc) |
| Michael Hunger | | | | | |
| Jens Weitkamp | | | | | |
| Jun Huang | | Institute of Chemical Technology Institute of Chemical Technology | 2005 | 2008 | Michael Hunger (grad student), Jens Weitkamp (grad student) |
| Hans Müller-Steinhagen | | | | | |
| Ashraf Ghanem | | Organic Chemistry Technical Biochemistry | 1999 | 2000 | Franz Effenberger (grad student), Rolf Dieter Schmid (grad student) |
| Theodor Förster | photochemistry | | | | |
| Alfred Seeger | metals, diffusion | | | | |
| Hans-Joachim Werner | | | | | |