Faculty by Classification
Core Faculty
These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.
Barnett, Brandon R.
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- brandon.barnett@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8286
- 471 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organometallic chemistry; Porous materials; Molecular separations; Catalysis
Bren, Kara L.
she/her/hers
- Richard S. Eisenberg Professor in Chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Chemistry - Chair, Department of Chemistry
- kara.bren@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4335
- 448 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry
Dinnocenzo, Joseph P.
- Professor of Chemistry
- jpd@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8351
- 463 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Mechanistic and physical organic chemistry
Franco, Ignacio
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Physics
Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow
- ignacio.franco@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8209
- 454 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Frontier, Alison J.
she/her/hers
- Professor of Chemistry
- frontier@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2568
- 414 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Synthetic organic chemistry; synthesis of bioactive natural products; pericyclic reactions; asymmetric catalysis; cationic cascades
Huo, Pengfei
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Optics
- huo@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7793
- 456 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry
Jones, William D.
he/him/his
- Charles Frederick Houghton Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
- jones@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5493
- B26 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Mechanistic Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis
Kennedy, C. Rose
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- c.r.kennedy@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8778
- 459 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Catalysis and Synthetic Methods; Organometallic Chemistry; Mechanistic and Physical Organic Chemistry
Knowles, Kathryn
she/her/hers
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- knowles@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0649
- 457 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Inorganic Materials Chemistry
Krauss, Todd D.
he/him/his
- Jay Last Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Optics
- todd.krauss@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5093
- 465 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors; Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials; Quantum optics and nanoscience
Matson, Ellen
she/her/hers
- Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- matson@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7792
- B45 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry
McCamant, David W.
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- mccamant@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3122
- B30 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
- Professor of Chemistry
- Director, Materials Science Program
- nilsson@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3053
- 417 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry
Paradine, Shauna
she/her | they/them
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- sparadin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-5822
- 453 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry
Partridge, Benjamin E.
he/him/his
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- benjamin.partridge@rochester.edu | (585) 273-1404
- 419 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
Rothberg, Lewis
he/him/his
- Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical Engineering
- lewis.rothberg@rochester.edu
- 462 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Polymer electronics; optoelectronic devices; light-emitting diodes; thin-film transistors; photodetectors; xerographic photoreceptors; biological sensors; electrooptic modulators
Ruggiero, Michael T.
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- michael.ruggiero@rochester.edu
- 451 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Physical and materials chemistry; Ultrafast terahertz vibrational spectroscopy and optics; Theoretical chemistry; Diffraction and crystallography
Schröder, Wolf-Udo
- Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- w.udo.schroeder@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8263
- 466 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Dynamics of Complex Nuclear Reactions at intermediate and high energies
Thorarinsdottir, Agnes E.
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- agnes.thorarinsdottir@rochester.edu
- B32 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Inorganic chemistry; Materials chemistry; Electrochemistry; Stimuli-responsive molecules and materials; Catalysis; Clean energy
Cluster Affiliated Faculty
Faculty in the clusters have primary appointments in other departments but can mentor chemistry graduate students.
Ghaemmaghami, Sina
- Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry
Professor of Biology - Director, AS&E Undergraduate Research
- sghaemma@bio.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4829
- 326A Hutchison
Interests: Protein folding and degradation; Neurodegenerative diseases and aging; Prion biology; Proteomics
Grossfield, Alan
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- alan_grossfield@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4193
Interests: Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation
Mathews, David H.
- Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- david_mathews@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1734
Interests: Computational biology of RNA, including structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomics
Miller, Benjamin L.
- Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Professor of the Institute for Optics
- benjamin_miller@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9805
- 5-6141A MC
Interests: Developing new strategies for the sequence-selective recognition of RNA, and using the optical properties of nanostructured materials for the production of novel biosensors
Müller, Astrid M.
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- astrid.mueller@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7331
- 4509 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Interests: Developing new multimetallic nanomaterials for sustainable energy, green chemistry, and biomedical applications, and understanding what materials properties drive functionality
Porosoff, Marc D.
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- marc.porosoff@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7401
- 4305 Wegmans Hall
Interests: CO2 Reduction; Heterogeneous Catalysis; Catalyst Structure-Property Relationships; C1 Chemistry; Upgrading Light Alkanes
Shestopalov, Alexander
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- alexander.shestopalov@rochester.edu | (585) 276-5434
- 4507 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Surface Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Surface Patterning; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Thermodynamics
White, Andrew
he/him/his
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- andrew.white@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7395
- 4001 Wegmans Hall
Instructional Faculty
Hafensteiner, Benjamin
- Faculty Lecturer
- benjamin.hafensteiner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1936
- 124 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Chemical education; total synthesis of natural products; organic synthesis; reaction invention and investigation; cascade reactions
Olsen, John-Carl
he/him/his
- Assistant Professor of Teaching
- john-carl.olsen@rochester.edu | (585) 273-4857
- 112-B Hutchison Hall
Interests: Chemical education; topologically non-trivial molecules and metal-ligand assemblies; nanoparticles for drug delivery; total synthesis
Stanford, Courtney
- Assistant Professor of Teaching
- courtney.stanford@rochester.edu | (585) 273-4988
- 112A Hutchison Hall
Interests: Chemistry Education, Lab Development, Active Learning Pedagogy
Research Professors
Research professors do not accept graduate students, but have active research programs within the department.
Ebetino, Frank Hal
- Professor of Chemistry, Research
- febetino@ur.rochester.edu | (513) 532-4084
Interests: Medicinal chemistry and drug design, including bisphosphonates and bone targeted drugs for arthritis and cancer, receptor agonists/antagonists, and epigenetic enzyme inhibitors
Farid, Samir
- Professor of Chemistry, Research
- farid@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8398
- 220E Hutchison Hall
Interests: Photo-induced Electron Transfer Reactions
Mort, Brendan
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Research
- Director of the Center for Integrated Research and Computing
- brendan.mort@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8289
- 418 Hutchison Hall
Interests: High performance computing; application of computing technology to chemistry and biology; computational chemistry algorithm development; molecular dynamics simulations, electronic structure theory
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct faculty do not accept new graduate students and now have appointments elsewhere, although some of their students are still based at the University of Rochester.
Fasan, Rudi
he/him/his
- Andrew S. Kende Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
- fasan@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 273-3504
- 418 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis; asymmetric biocatalysis; protein engineering; bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology
Neidig, Michael L.
he/him/his
- Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
- neidig@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6006
- B32 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis and f-Element Chemistry
Emeritus Faculty
Emeritus faculty no longer teach courses or graduate students, but many are still active contributors to the intellectual life of the department, serving as co-advisors, mentors, and running research programs.
Eisenberg, Richard
- Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
- eisenberg@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 733-2914
Interests: Synthesis, structure, reaction chemistry and applications of inorganic and organometallic systems; metal complex photochemistry; molecular, semiconductor and hybrid systems for light-to-chemical energy conversion; parahydrogen induced polarization; sustainability and the hydrogen economy.
Farrar, James M.
- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- farrar@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5834
- B19 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Dynamical studies of low energy ion-molecule reactions in the gas phase; imaging studies of collisions; photochemistry of size-selected ionic clusters
Kreilick, Robert W.
- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- kreilick@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4231
Interests: Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Solids: Rapid Motion in Solids, Structure of Solids, Energy Transfer in Solids
Krugh, Thomas R.
- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- krugh@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4231
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; structural analysis of biomolecules, energy minimization and molecular dynamics calculations
Muenter, John S.
- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- muenter@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4231
Interests: Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Properties and Dynamics
Tang, Ching W.
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- ching.tang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3552
- 4003 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Organic Electronics; Thin-Film Devices; Display Technology; Organic Light Emitting Diodes; Organic Solar Cells; II-VI Semiconductors; CdTe Solar Cells; Thin-Film Deposition & Characterization
Turner, Douglas H.
- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Douglas.Turner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3207
- B08 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Biophysical chemistry: nucleic acid structure and function, RNA folding, therapeutics, and prediction of structure from sequence