Faculty by Classification

Core Faculty

These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.

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Barnett, Brandon R.

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Organometallic chemistry; Porous materials; Molecular separations; Catalysis

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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

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Interests: Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry

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Dinnocenzo, Joseph P.

  • Professor of Chemistry

Interests: Mechanistic and physical organic chemistry

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Franco, Ignacio

he/him/his

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry
    Associate Professor of Physics
    Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow

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Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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Frontier, Alison J.

she/her/hers

  • Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Synthetic organic chemistry; synthesis of bioactive natural products; pericyclic reactions; asymmetric catalysis; cationic cascades

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Huo, Pengfei

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry
    Associate Professor of Optics

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Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry

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Jiang, Yishu

she/her/hers

  • Incoming Assistant Professor in July 2024

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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

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Interests: Mechanistic Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis

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Kennedy, C. Rose

she/her/hers

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Catalysis and Synthetic Methods; Organometallic Chemistry; Mechanistic and Physical Organic Chemistry

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Knowles, Kathryn

she/her/hers

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Inorganic Materials Chemistry

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Krauss, Todd D.

he/him/his

  • Jay Last Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering
    Professor of Chemistry
    Professor of Optics

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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

  • Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
    Associate Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

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McCamant, David W.

he/him/his

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation

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Nilsson, Bradley L.

he/him/his

  • Professor of Chemistry
  • Director, Materials Science Program

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Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry

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Paradine, Shauna

she/her | they/them

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry

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Partridge, Benjamin E.

he/him/his

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering

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Rothberg, Lewis

he/him/his

  • Professor of Chemistry
    Professor of Chemical Engineering

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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

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Interests: Physical and materials chemistry; Ultrafast terahertz vibrational spectroscopy and optics; Theoretical chemistry; Diffraction and crystallography

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Schröder, Wolf-Udo

  • Professor of Chemistry
    Professor of Physics

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Interests: Dynamics of Complex Nuclear Reactions at intermediate and high energies

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Thorarinsdottir, Agnes E.

she/her/hers

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Inorganic chemistry; Materials chemistry; Electrochemistry; Stimuli-responsive molecules and materials; Catalysis; Clean energy

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Cluster Affiliated Faculty

Faculty in the clusters have primary appointments in other departments but can mentor chemistry graduate students.

Sina Ghaemmaghami

Ghaemmaghami, Sina

  • Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
    George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry
    Professor of Biology
  • Director, AS&E Undergraduate Research

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

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Grossfield, Alan

he/him/his

  • Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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Interests: Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation

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Mathews, David H.

  • Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor
    Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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

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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

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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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Müller, Astrid M.

she/her/hers

  • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

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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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Porosoff, Marc D.

  • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

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

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Shestopalov, Alexander

he/him/his

  • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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

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White, Andrew

he/him/his

  • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Instructional Faculty

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Hafensteiner, Benjamin

  • Faculty Lecturer

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

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Olsen, John-Carl

he/him/his

  • Assistant Professor of Teaching

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

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Stanford, Courtney

  • Assistant Professor of Teaching

Interests: Chemistry Education, Lab Development, Active Learning Pedagogy

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Research Professors

Research professors do not accept graduate students, but have active research programs within the department.

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Ebetino, Frank Hal

  • Professor of Chemistry, Research

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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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Farid, Samir

  • Professor of Chemistry, Research

Interests: Photo-induced Electron Transfer Reactions

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Mort, Brendan

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Research
  • Director of the Center for Integrated Research and Computing

Interests: High performance computing; application of computing technology to chemistry and biology; computational chemistry algorithm development; molecular dynamics simulations, electronic structure theory

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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.

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Fasan, Rudi

he/him/his

  • Andrew S. Kende Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
    Professor of Chemistry

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

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Neidig, Michael L.

he/him/his

  • Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis and f-Element Chemistry

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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.

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Eisenberg, Richard

  • Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

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

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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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Kreilick, Robert W.

  • Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

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

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

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Muenter, John S.

  • Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

Interests: Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Properties and Dynamics

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Tang, Ching W.

  • Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering

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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Turner, Douglas H.

  • Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

Interests: Biophysical chemistry: nucleic acid structure and function, RNA folding, therapeutics, and prediction of structure from sequence

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