Inorganic Chemistry Faculty
Core Faculty
These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.
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
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
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
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
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
Cluster Affiliated Faculty
Faculty in the clusters have primary appointments in other departments but can mentor chemistry graduate students.
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
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.
Neidig, Michael L.
he/him/his
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis and f-Element Chemistry
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.
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.
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