Chemistry Research for Medicine and Energy REU Program
REU Faculty Mentors
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Barnett, Brandon R.
he/him/his
- 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
- bren@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4335
- 448 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry
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Fasan, Rudi
he/him/his
- Andrew S. Kende 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

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
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Ghaemmaghami, Sina
- Associate Professor
- Director of Undergraduate Research in the College
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
- sghaemma@bio.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4829
- 326A Hutchison
Interests: Protein folding and degradation; Neurodegenerative diseases and aging; Prion biology; Proteomics
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Huo, Pengfei
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Assistant 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
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Kennedy, C. Rose
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- c.r.kennedy@rochester.edu
- 459 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Catalysis & Synthetic Methods, Organometallic Chemistry, Mechanistic & Physical Organic Chemistry

Knowles, Kathryn
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- knowles@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0649
- 457 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Inorganic Materials Chemistry

Krauss, Todd D.
he/him/his
- Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Optics - Chair, Chemistry Department
- krauss@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5093
- 404C Hutchinson
Interests: Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors ; Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials; Quantum optics and nanoscience
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Matson, Ellen
she/her/hers
- Wilmot Assistant 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

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
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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

Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
- Professor of Chemistry
- nilsson@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3053
- 417 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry
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Paradine, Shauna
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- sparadin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-5822
- 453 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry

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
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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
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White, Andrew
he/him/his
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- andrew.white@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7395
- 4001 Wegmans Hall