Karena Chapman is an Australian chemist who is the Joseph W Lauher & Frank W Fowler Endowed Chair in Materials Chemistry at Stony Brook University.

[2] Chapman then joined the Argonne National Laboratory as an Arthur Holly Compton Fellow.

[3] After nine years at Argonne, Chapman joined the faculty at Stony Brook University, where she was appointed the Joseph Lauher and Frank Fowler Endowed Chair in Materials Chemistry.

[6] Chapman's research considers the development of new materials for batteries, catalysis and gas capture.

She has worked on the development of high X-ray based fidelity tools to identify structure-property relationships in these materials.