Physical Chemistry Faculty
Core Faculty
These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.
Barnett, Brandon R.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 471 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8286
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organometallic chemistry; Porous materials; Molecular separations; Catalysis
Franco, Ignacio
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Physics
Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow
- Office Location
- 454 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8209
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Huo, Pengfei
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 456 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7793
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry
Jiang, Yishu
she/her/hers
Incoming Assistant Professor in July 2024
- Office Location
- 574A Tan Hall, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; Catalysis; Ultrafast spectroscopy and cell imaging
Knowles, Kathryn
she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 457 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0649
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Inorganic Materials Chemistry
Krauss, Todd D.
he/him/his
Jay Last Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 465 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5093
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors; Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials; Quantum optics and nanoscience
McCamant, David W.
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B30 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3122
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation
Rothberg, Lewis
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 462 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 451 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Office Location
- 466 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8263
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Dynamics of Complex Nuclear Reactions at intermediate and high energies
Cluster Affiliated Faculty
Faculty in the clusters have primary appointments in other departments but can mentor chemistry graduate students.
Grossfield, Alan
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4193
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation
Mathews, David H.
Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1734
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational biology of RNA, including structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomics
Research Professors
Research professors do not accept graduate students, but have active research programs within the department.
Mort, Brendan
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Research
Director of the Center for Integrated Research and Computing
- Office Location
- 418 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8289
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.
Neidig, Michael L.
he/him/his
Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B32 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6006
- Web Address
- Website
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.
Farrar, James M.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B19 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5834
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Telephone
- (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
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4231
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; structural analysis of biomolecules, energy minimization and molecular dynamics calculations
Muenter, John S.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4231
Interests: Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Properties and Dynamics
Tang, Ching W.
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4003 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3552
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
- Office Location
- B08 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3207
Interests: Biophysical chemistry: nucleic acid structure and function, RNA folding, therapeutics, and prediction of structure from sequence