Organic Chemistry Faculty
Core Faculty
These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.
Dinnocenzo, Joseph P.
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 463 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8351
Interests: Mechanistic and physical organic chemistry
Driver, Tom G.
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organic chemistry; Organometallic chemistry; Electrochemistry; Drug discovery and development
Frontier, Alison J.
she/her/hers
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 414 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2568
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Synthetic organic chemistry; synthesis of bioactive natural products; pericyclic reactions; asymmetric catalysis; cationic cascades
Jiang, Yishu
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Biophysics
- Office Location
- 423 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-0139
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; Catalysis; Ultrafast spectroscopy and cell imaging
Kennedy, C. Rose
she/her/hers
James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 459 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8778
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Catalysis and Synthetic Methods; Organometallic Chemistry; Mechanistic and Physical Organic Chemistry
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
Andrew S. Kende Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
Director, Materials Science Program
- Office Location
- 417 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3053
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; Amyloid peptides; Smyloid-inspired materials; Bioorganic chemistry; Supramolecular chemistry
Paradine, Shauna
she/her | they/them
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 453 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5822
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry
Partridge, Benjamin E.
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 419 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1404
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
Paton, Alexandra E.
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
Interests: Biocatalysis; Total synthesis; Data science; Natural products
Research Professors
Research professors do not accept graduate students, but have active research programs within the department.
Ebetino, Frank Hal
Professor of Chemistry, Research
- Telephone
- (513) 532-4084
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Medicinal chemistry and drug design, including bisphosphonates and bone targeted drugs for arthritis and cancer, receptor agonists/antagonists, and epigenetic enzyme inhibitors
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
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis; asymmetric biocatalysis; protein engineering; bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology