Casey Van Stappen

Casey Van Stappen is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Chemistry, effective August 2025. His research bridges chemical biology, catalysis, and inorganic/physical chemistry to address challenges in biological energy conversion, greenhouse gas remediation, and fine chemical synthesis.

• Education: B.S. (2011) and M.S. (2013) from University of Minnesota, Duluth; Ph.D. (2019) from Ruhr-Universität Bochum via Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.
• Research focuses on advanced physical inorganic methods (X-ray spectroscopies, EPR, Mössbauer) combined with computational approaches to study bioinorganic systems.

His lab offers training in computational methods, biophysical techniques, biochemical protocols, and spectroscopy. He was awarded the NIH F32 postdoctoral fellowship during his tenure at the University of Texas at Austin.