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The 2018-2020 picture for New York University Department of Chemistry is a 41-PI network with 34 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (24% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (20% of slots across 19 PIs; 19 labels), and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis as the leading topic (4% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The top weighted PIs are Dirk Trauner (32.9 weighted works; Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research); John Z. H. Zhang (28.1 weighted works; Protein Structure and Dynamics, Computational Drug Discovery Methods). The strongest pairings are Bart Kahr and Alexander G. Shtukenberg (15 shared works, weight 8.7). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 22.1, around Materials Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, led by Bart Kahr, Marcus Weck, Alexej Jerschow.