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Aby, Irin
Graduate Student ('23)
Barnett Group
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Afandiyeva, Medina
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('20)
Kennedy Group
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Akuamoah, Daniel Aboagye
Graduate Student ('21)
Kennedy Group
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Ali, Afsar
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bren Group
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2980
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Aliyas, Basil
Graduate Student ('24)
Partridge Group
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Awan, Farwa
Graduate Student ('21)
Krauss Group
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B. R., Karishma
Graduate Student ('23)
Bren Group
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Babu, Abhijith Suresh
Graduate Student ('23)
McCamant Group
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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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Bandyopadhyay, Shamitri
Graduate Student ('24)
Bren Group
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Banerjee, Sreeparna
Graduate Student ('23)
Krauss Group
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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
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Bauer, Alexis Katelyn
Graduate Student ('21)
Neidig Group
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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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Brennessel, William
he/him/his
X-ray Crystallographer and Scientist
- Office Location
- B04 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4715
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Burke, Liam
Graduate Student ('23)
Krauss Group
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Butt, Jordan N
Graduate Student ('21)
Miller Group
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Cajiao, Nathalia
Graduate Student ('20)
Neidig Group
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Carmenate Rodriguez, Chayan
Graduate Student ('20)
Krauss Group
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Carmona Perez, Daniela
Graduate Student ('23)
Thorarinsdottir Group
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Caruso, John
Graduate Student ('24)
Krauss Group
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Catalano, Luca
Research Associate Scientist
Ruggiero Group
- Office Location
- 36B Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-1209
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Chakraborty, Arundhuti
Graduate Student ('24)
Paradine Group
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Chandra, Bittu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Barnett Group
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6766
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Chen, Xinxian
Graduate Student ('19)
Franco Group
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Chiang, Wesley
Postdoctoral Fellow
Krauss Group
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0215
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Chourasiya, Rahul
Graduate Student ('23)
Franco Group
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Claus, Hannah
Graduate Student
Partridge Group
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Colon, Daniel
Stockroom Manager and Staff Accountant
- Office Location
- B14 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4237
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Cooney, Shannon Elizabeth
Graduate Student ('21)
Matson Group
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Coyne, Brie
Administrative and Digital Services Assistant
- Office Location
- 451 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2915
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Craddock, Erica Powers
Graduate Student ('21)
Knowles Group
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Crompton, Lisbeth
Graduate Student ('23)
Krauss Group
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Dagar, Mamta
Graduate Student ('21)
Matson Group
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De, Anyesh
Graduate Student ('23)
Thorarinsdottir Group
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De, Apurba
Postdoctoral Fellow
Krauss Group
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0215
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Dinga, Philip
Graduate Student ('23)
Thorarinsdottir Group
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Dinnocenzo, Joseph P.
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 463 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8351
Interests: Mechanistic and physical organic chemistry
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Distaffen, Hannah
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('19)
Nilsson Group
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Dolan, Donna J.
she/her/hers
Department Receptionist and Purchaser
- Office Location
- 404E Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4231
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Dora, Rishabh
Graduate Student
Franco Group
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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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Farid, Samir
Scientist
- Office Location
- 220E Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8398
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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
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
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Ferrigno, Baela
Graduate Student ('23)
Matson Group
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Fiete, Katie
she/her/hers
Staff Accountant
- Office Location
- 408 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0053
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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
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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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Gangadharan Pillai, Vivek (G Pillai)
Graduate Student ('21)
Kennedy Group
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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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Ghosh, Shruti
Graduate Student ('23)
Nilsson Group
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Gimeno, Magali
Graduate Student ('20)
Neidig Group
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Gorski, Hannah
Graduate Student ('23)
Matson Group
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Goswami, Bappaditya
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kennedy Group
- Telephone
- (585) 210-6151
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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
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Guirguis, Hania
Graduate Student ('24)
Matson Group
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Gunarathna, Nadeeshan
Graduate Student ('24)
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Gustin, Ignacio
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('20)
Franco Group
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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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Hastings, Christopher
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('20)
Barnett Group
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Haze, Olesya
Scientist
- Office Location
- 461 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2219
- o.haze@rochester.edu
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Herath, Ruwani
Graduate Student ('24)
Partridge Group
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Hern, Morgan
Graduate Student ('24)
Barnett Group
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Hickey, Joseph
he/him/his
Technical Associate
- Office Location
- B14E Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0354
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Hintz, Margaret
Graduate Student ('24)
Krauss Group
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Holt, Jason
Senior Laboratory Engineer
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Hong, Andrew
Graduate Student ('22)
Fasan Group
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Huffman, Lucy
Graduate Student
Barnett Group
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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
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Huynh, Alana
Graduate Student ('23)
Bren Group
Partridge Group
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Ibrahim, Yusuf
Graduate Student ('22)
Frontier Group
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Irfan, Hafsa
Graduate Student ('21)
Bren Group
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Jaiswal, Vartika
Graduate Student ('24)
Thorarinsdottir Group
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Jiang, Yishu
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and 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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Jones, Christopher
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('19)
Nilsson Group
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Kaltenhauser, Nicolas
Graduate Student ('24)
Frontier Group
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Karlin, Hannah
Graduate Student ('24)
Nilsson Group
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Keedakkatt Puthenpeedikakkal, Anees Mohammed
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('19)
Mathews Group
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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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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
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Koessler, Eric
Graduate Student ('20)
Huo Group
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Korol, Roman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Franco Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-1351
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Kosko, Ryan
Graduate Student ('20)
Bren Group
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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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Kumar, Parbhat
Graduate Student ('22)
Partridge Group
- Telephone
- (934) 949-7593
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Kuphal, Kaye
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('20)
Bren Group
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Lai, Yifan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Huo Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-8358
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LaPierre, Alexa
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('20)
Collins Group
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Lara, Neively Tlapale
Graduate Student ('23)
Paradine Group
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Lazaro, Alejandro
Graduate Student ('23)
Partridge Group
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Leon Baxin, Roberto
Graduate Student ('21)
Paradine Group
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Lizarazo (Rojas), María Fernanda
Graduate Student ('21)
Bren Group
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Lofton, Kylie
Graduate Student ('23)
Collins Group
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Lu, Zhou
Postdoctoral Fellow
Matson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-8767
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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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Maity, Dhriti
Graduate Student ('23)
Kennedy Group
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Mandal, Subhajyoti
Graduate Student ('23)
Knowles Group
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Marchetti, Al
Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- B37 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4652
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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
- s.may@rochester.edu
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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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McNichol, Caitlyn (Cay)
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('20)
Paradine Group
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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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Mitiku, Hailemariam (Haile) Alaye
Graduate Student ('21)
Kennedy Group
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Mohan , Ritty
Graduate Student ('21)
Nilsson Group
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Mondal, Mohammad Elious Ali
Graduate Student ('21)
Huo Group
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Monteferrante, Owen E
Graduate Student ('21)
Paradine Group
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Montillo, Sebastian
Graduate Student ('21)
Huo Group
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Mort, Brendan
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Research
Director of the Center for Integrated Research and Computing
- Office Location
- 1215 Wegmans
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8289
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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Mudiyanselage, Lakshan Buddhika Jayawardena Manathunga
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nilsson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2007
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Muenter, John S.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4231
Interests: Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Properties and Dynamics
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Mullen, Abigail
Graduate Student ('24)
Jiang Group
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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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Neidig, Michael L.
he/him/his
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis and f-Element Chemistry
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Ngarnim, Soraya Saleh
Graduate Student ('21)
Bren Group
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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
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Niziol, Justin
Research Scientist
Dinnocenzo Group
- Office Location
- 461 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2219
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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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O'Neil, Shannon Theresa
Graduate Student ('21)
Paradine Group
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Olsen, John-Carl
he/him/his
Assistant 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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Ortega, John
Graduate Student ('24)
Huo Group
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Panda, Rishab
Graduate Student ('24)
Nilsson Group
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Panda, Aurodeep
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('20)
Jones Group
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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
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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
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Patras, Kamaless
Postdoctoral Fellow
Matson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-8767
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Peter, Chari Yasmin
Graduate Student ('21)
Matson Group
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Petrov, Maria
Graduate Student ('24)
Ruggiero Group
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Phinney, Elizabeth (Liz)
Graduate Student ('21)
Krauss Group
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Piacquadio, Michael
Graduate Student ('23)
Frontier Group
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Piedmont, Elizabeth (Liz) Rose
Graduate Student ('21)
Partridge Group
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Pittalis, Michele
Graduate Student ('24)
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Poddar, Santanu
Graduate Student ('22)
Huo Group
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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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Rahmani, Azina
Postdoctoral Fellow
Thorarinsdottir Group
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Rajan, Revathy
Graduate Student ('21)
Knowles Group
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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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Roy, Abhishek
Graduate Student ('22)
Partridge Group
- Telephone
- (917) 432-9113
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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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Sanchez, Jhoan
Graduate Student ('24)
Franco Group
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Sannigrahi, Sanchari
Graduate Student ('23)
Huo Group
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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
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Searle, Alexander
Graduate Student ('23)
Krauss Group
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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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Shiels, Dominic
Postdoctoral Fellow
Matson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-8767
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Shojaie, Jalil
Senior Lab Engineer/Chemist
- Office Location
- B14D Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5632
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Simolo, Ken
he/him/his
Assistant Chair for Administration
- Office Location
- 404A Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4256
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Sithari, Hashini
Graduate Student ('23)
Ruggiero Group
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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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Song, Yinru
Accounting Bookkeeper
- Office Location
- 408 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4221
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Sornberger, Parker
Graduate Student ('23)
Ruggiero Group
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Stoll, William
Graduate Student ('23)
Ruggiero Group
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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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Teixeira Costa Peluzo, Barbara Maria
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ruggiero Group
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Temino, Ignacio Camarero
Graduate Student ('20)
Jones Group
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Teng, Ray
Research/Facilities Coordinator
- Office Location
- B17C Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 406-7451
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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
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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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Tiwari, Vishal
Graduate Student ('19)
Franco Group
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Tschirhart, Jeff
Manager, Business Administration
Department Administrator
- Office Location
- 404A Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8255
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Tsiskarishvili, Manana
Graduate Student ('23)
Kennedy Group
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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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Uche, Miracle
Graduate Student ('24)
Partridge Group
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Valerio, Leyla Rebecca
Graduate Student ('21)
Matson Group
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Walls, Madelyn (Becca)
Graduate Student
Matson Group
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Weththasinghage, Nadeeka Navajalee Teklani Panagoda
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nilsson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2007
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White, Andrew
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4001 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7395
- Web Address
- Website
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Whitehead, Bevan
Graduate Student ('20)
Barnett Group
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Wilson, Rumm
Grants Management Supervisor
- Office Location
- 410 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2340
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Witharana, Dilmi
Graduate Student ('24)
Kennedy Group
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Ying, Wenxiang
Graduate Student ('20)
Huo Group
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Yoon, Jin
Graduate Student ('24)
Kennedy Group
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Young, Ralph
Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- B38 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4652
- qmyoung@yahoo.com
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Zybura, Patrycia Krystyna
Graduate Student ('21)
Frontier Group