Chemistry Research for Medicine and Energy REU Program
REU Faculty Mentors
B
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
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
F
Franco, Ignacio
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 454 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8209
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
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
G
Ghaemmaghami, Sina
George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry
Professor of Biology
Director, Undergraduate Research
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- Office Location
- 326A Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4829
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Protein folding and degradation; Neurodegenerative diseases and aging; Prion biology; Proteomics
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
H
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
K
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
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
M
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
Matson, Ellen
she/her/hers
Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B45 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7792
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry
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
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
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
N
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
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; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry
P
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
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
R
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
S
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
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
T
Thorarinsdottir, Agnes E.
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B42 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Inorganic chemistry; Materials chemistry; Electrochemistry; Stimuli-responsive molecules and materials; Catalysis; Clean energy