Chemistry Research for Medicine and Energy REU Program
REU Faculty Mentors
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Barnett, Brandon R.
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- brandon.barnett@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8286
- 471 Hutchison Hall
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
- kara.bren@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4335
- 448 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry
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Franco, Ignacio
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Physics
Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow
- ignacio.franco@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8209
- 454 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
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Frontier, Alison J.
she/her/hers
- Professor of Chemistry
- frontier@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2568
- 414 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Synthetic organic chemistry; synthesis of bioactive natural products; pericyclic reactions; asymmetric catalysis; cationic cascades
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Ghaemmaghami, Sina
- Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry
Professor of Biology - Director, AS&E Undergraduate Research
- sghaemma@bio.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4829
- 326A Hutchison
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
- alan_grossfield@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4193
Interests: Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation
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Huo, Pengfei
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Optics
- huo@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7793
- 456 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry
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Kennedy, C. Rose
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- c.r.kennedy@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8778
- 459 Hutchison Hall
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
- knowles@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0649
- 457 Hutchison Hall
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
- todd.krauss@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5093
- 465 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors; Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials; Quantum optics and nanoscience
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Mathews, David H.
- Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- david_mathews@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1734
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
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- matson@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7792
- B45 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry
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McCamant, David W.
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- mccamant@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3122
- B30 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation
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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
- benjamin_miller@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9805
- 5-6141A MC
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
- astrid.mueller@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7331
- 4509 Wegmans Hall
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
- Professor of Chemistry
- Director, Materials Science Program
- nilsson@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3053
- 417 Hutchison Hall
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
- sparadin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-5822
- 453 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry
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Partridge, Benjamin E.
he/him/his
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- benjamin.partridge@rochester.edu | (585) 273-1404
- 419 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
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Porosoff, Marc D.
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- marc.porosoff@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7401
- 4305 Wegmans Hall
Interests: CO2 Reduction; Heterogeneous Catalysis; Catalyst Structure-Property Relationships; C1 Chemistry; Upgrading Light Alkanes
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Ruggiero, Michael T.
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- michael.ruggiero@rochester.edu
- 451 Hutchison Hall
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
- w.udo.schroeder@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8263
- 466 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Dynamics of Complex Nuclear Reactions at intermediate and high energies
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Shestopalov, Alexander
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- alexander.shestopalov@rochester.edu | (585) 276-5434
- 4507 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Surface Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Surface Patterning; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Thermodynamics
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Thorarinsdottir, Agnes E.
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- agnes.thorarinsdottir@rochester.edu
- B32 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Inorganic chemistry; Materials chemistry; Electrochemistry; Stimuli-responsive molecules and materials; Catalysis; Clean energy