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Baker, Tessa

Magnetic Resonance Director and Safety Officer

Office Location
B54A Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 738-7774
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Breitbart, Emily

Administrative Assistant

Graduate Coordinator

Office Location
412 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0635
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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

Office Location
448 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4335
Web Address
Website

Interests: Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry

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Catalano, Luca

Research Associate Scientist

Ruggiero Group

Office Location
36B Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-1209
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Colon, Daniel

Stockroom Manager and Staff Accountant

Office Location
B14 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4237
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Coyne, Brie

Administrative and Digital Services Assistant

Office Location
404 Hutchison Hall

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Dolan, Donna J.

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Administrative Coordinator III

Office Location
404E Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4231
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Driver, Tom G.

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Professor of Chemistry

Office Location
Hutchison Hall

Interests: Organic chemistry; Organometallic chemistry; Electrochemistry; Drug discovery and development

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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

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Eisenberg, Richard

Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

Telephone
(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.

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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

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Fasan, Rudi

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Adjunct Professor of Chemistry

Web Address
Website

Interests: Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis; asymmetric biocatalysis; protein engineering; bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology

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Fiete, Katie

she/her/hers

Staff Accountant

Office Location
408 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0053
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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

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Ghaemmaghami, Sina

George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry

Professor of Biology

Director, Undergraduate Research

Research Active

Now accepting:

PhD students

Please email with inquiries.

Office Location
326A Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-4829
Web Address
Website

Interests: Protein folding and degradation; Neurodegenerative diseases and aging; Prion biology; Proteomics

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Hafensteiner, Benjamin

Associate Professor of Instruction

Office Location
124 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1936

Interests: Chemical education; total synthesis of natural products; organic synthesis; reaction invention and investigation; cascade reactions

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Haze, Olesya

Scientist

Office Location
461 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2219
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Hickey, Joseph

he/him/his

Technical Associate

Office Location
B14E Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0354
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Huo, Pengfei

Dean and Laura Marvin Endowed Professor in Physical Chemistry

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

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Jiang, Yishu

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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

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Jones, William D.

he/him/his

Charles Frederick Houghton Professor of Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry

Office Location
B26 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5493
Web Address
Website

Interests: Mechanistic Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis

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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

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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

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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

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Krugh, Thomas R.

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

Telephone
(585) 275-4231

Interests: Biophysical chemistry; structural analysis of biomolecules, energy minimization and molecular dynamics calculations

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Maholick, Elaine

she/her/hers

Administrative Assistant

Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Office Location
404D Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-3663
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Mathews, David H.

Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Office Location
3-8816 MC
Telephone
(585) 275-1734
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computational biology of RNA, including structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomics

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Matson, Ellen

she/her/hers

Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry

Office Location
B45 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7792
Web Address
Website

Interests: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

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May, Chloe

they/them/theirs

Technical Associate

Office Location
B14E Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0354
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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

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McGarry, Lynda

she/her/hers

Development Administrator and Alumni Relations

Office Location
419 Hutchison Hall
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Miller, Benjamin L.

Professor of Dermatology

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Professor of the Institute for Optics

Office Location
5-6141A MC
Telephone
(585) 275-9805
Web Address
Website

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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Mort, Brendan

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Research

Director of the Center for Integrated Research Computing

Office Location
1215 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8289
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computational chemistry; Molecular properties; Optical activity; Machine learning and artificial intelligence; High performance computing

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Mudiyanselage, Lakshan Buddhika Jayawardena Manathunga

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nilsson Group

Telephone
(585) 273-2007
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Müller, Astrid M.

she/her/hers

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location
4509 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7331
Web Address
Website

Interests: Interests: Developing new multimetallic nanomaterials for sustainable energy, green chemistry, and biomedical applications, and understanding what materials properties drive functionality

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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

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O'Connell, Terry

Manager of Technical Staff and Instrumentation

Office Location
B18A Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5358
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Olsen, John-Carl

he/him/his

Associate Professor of Teaching

Office Location
112-B Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-4857

Interests: Chemical education; topologically non-trivial molecules and metal-ligand assemblies; nanoparticles for drug delivery; total synthesis

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Porosoff, Marc D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location
4305 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7401
Web Address
Website

Interests: CO2 Reduction; Heterogeneous Catalysis; Catalyst Structure-Property Relationships; C1 Chemistry; Upgrading Light Alkanes

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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

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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

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Shestopalov, Alexander

he/him/his

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Office Location
4507 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-5434
Web Address
Website

Interests: Surface Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Surface Patterning; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Thermodynamics

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Shojaie, Jalil

Senior Lab Engineer/Chemist

Office Location
B14D Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-5632
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Smith, Barbara

she/her/hers

Accounting Bookkeeper

Office Location
408 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8277
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Snaith, Barbara

she/her/hers

Administrative Assistant to the Chair

Office Location
404B Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-6960

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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

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Teng, Ray

Research/Facilities Coordinator

Office Location
B17C Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 406-7451
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Tichy, Megan

she/her/hers

Professor of Instruction

Office Location
112A Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-4988

Interests: Implementation of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach and guided inquiry techniques; Integration of computer programming into the chemistry curriculum; Sustainability in the laboratory

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Tschirhart, Jeff

Manager, Business Administration

Department Administrator

Office Location
404A Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8255
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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

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Weththasinghage, Nadeeka Navajalee Teklani Panagoda

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nilsson Group

Telephone
(585) 273-2007
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Wilson, Rumm

Grants Management Supervisor

Business Office Supervisor

Office Location
408 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0053

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Young, Ralph

Senior Scientist

Office Location
B38 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-4652

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