Career
Born in Watertown, New York, he obtained his B. South. from Clarkson University and his Doctor of Philosophy from Caltech under Aron Kuppermann. Following postdoctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Chemistry Department at Northwestern University, where he is a Morrison Professor of Chemistry.
A longtime senior editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, he became its editor-in-chief in 2005.
The journal previously (1997) having been split in Journal of Physical Chemistry A (molecular physical chemistry, both theoretical and experimental) and Journal of Physical Chemistry B (solid state, soft matter, liquids), Schatz initiated the spin-off of a third journal, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, focusing on nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Also, Doctor Schatz teaches undergraduate Chemistry.
Recently much of Schatz"s research has been concerned with nanotechnology and bionanotechnology.