Adam Braunschweig

Adam Braunschweig, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Nanoscience Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Hunter College. His research group sits at the intersection of organic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and materials science, applying these disciplines to tackle challenges in medicine, environmental science, and electronics.
Dr. Braunschweig’s work spans three primary areas: the development of organic photovoltaics and electronic materials, the design of synthetic carbohydrate receptors targeting cell-surface glycans, and the advancement of 4D nanolithography and organic surface chemistry. His lab’s carbohydrate receptor research has yielded promising results in antiviral applications, including work on inhibiting attachment of the Zika virus and, most recently, demonstrating broad-spectrum inhibition of viral entry across multiple virus families.
He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and went on to complete postdoctoral fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Northwestern University, where he held an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cancer Nanotechnology. He has held faculty positions at New York University and the University of Miami before joining CUNY, where he has been based since 2016.
Dr. Braunschweig has authored dozens of peer-reviewed publications in leading journals including Science Advances, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Advanced Materials.