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Anthamatten, Mitchell
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 4311 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5526
Interests: Macromolecular Self-assembly; Associative & Functional Polymers; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Phenomena; Optoelectronic Materials; Vapor Deposition Polymerization
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Basdogan, Yasemin
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4305 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4584
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Quantum Chemistry; Computational Materials Design; Energy and Sustainability; Polymers, Solutions, Catalysis
Bhalode, Pooja Rajendra
Assistant Research Professor of Chemical Engineering
(Tenure Track Assistant Professor starting July 2025)
- Office Location
- 4301 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8497
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Process Systems Engineering; Sustainability; Multiscale Modeling; Powder flow Modeling; Data-driven Hybrid Modeling; Solvent-based Extraction
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Chen, Shaw H.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, Center of Advanced Materials for Photonics and Lasers
- Office Location
- 4313 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4040
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Glassy Liquid Crystals; Robust Photoalignment Polymers; Organic Semiconductors; Self-Organization of Nanoparticles; Optoelectronic Devices
Chimowitz, Eldred H.
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4301 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8497
Interests: Critical Phenomena; Supercritical Fluids; Percolation; Computer Simulation
Condit, Jennifer
Academic Administrator (undergraduate)
- Office Location
- 4519 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4042
Cunningham, Clair
Laboratory Engineer
- Office Location
- 110 Gavett Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4921
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Deshpande, Siddharth
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4009 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Atomic modeling at complex solid-liquid and solid-gas interfaces; Data-driven methods: machine learning and algorithm development for data-mining and interpretation; Heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, batteries
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Fan, Gang
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4307 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2355
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Polymer Chemistry; Plastic Upcycling; Bio-inspired Catalysis; Synthetic Biology; Metabolic Engineering; Bioelectrochemistry and Water-remediation
Foster, David G.
Professor of Chemical Engineering (instructional)
- Office Location
- 4001 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5350
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Principles of Transport Phenomena; Classic Chemical Engineering as well as Biomedical Engineering Research; Creation of Nanoparticle Coatings for Enhanced Capture of Flowing Cells in Microtubes; Capture Cancer Cells in Blood Flow; Creating State of the Art Videos for Curricular Purposes of Fundamental Fluid Mechanics Principles; Computational Fluid Dynamics and Transport Phenomena
G
Garlatti, Mason
Senior Laboratory Specialist
- Office Location
- 109C Gavett Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7885
Griffin, Wayne C.
Instructor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- Gavett Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4041
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Harding, David R.
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Professor of Chemical Engineering (secondary appointment)
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5850
Interests: Cryogenic Properties of Solid Deuterium and Tritium; Thin-Film Deposition; Microfluidic Processes
Haring, Tal
Manager, Academic Finance and Operations
- Office Location
- 4517 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7917
Heberling, Victoria
Academic Administrator (graduate)
- Office Location
- 4513 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4913
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Jorné, Jacob
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4301 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8497
Interests: Electrochemistry; Energy Conversion & Storage; Fuel Cells; Flow Batteries; Lithium Batteries; Green Energy; Microelectronic Processing; Copper Electrodeposition; Reaction-Diffusion Interactions; Scaling Theory
Juba, Mark
Instructor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4007 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7330
Interests: Senior Design Courses, Lab in Chemical Engineering Principles
K
Kelley, F. Douglas
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering (instructional)
- Office Location
- 111A Gavett Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7696
Interests: Polymer Extrusion; Small Particle and Nano-Particle Mixing; Compounding into Polymers; Biaxial Orientation of Polymers
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Lawton, Melodie I.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering (instructional)
Laboratory Director, Teaching Labs
- Office Location
- 111B Gavett Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5162
Interests: Shape Memory Polymers; Polymeric Composites; Biomaterials; Polymer Degradation; Controlled Drug Delivery; Structure-Property Relationships.
Lefler, Jeffery
Laboratory Engineer
- Office Location
- 104 Gavett Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4047
Lipomi, Darren
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4313 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4040
- Web Address
- Website
Lopatkin, Allison J.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4303 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6858
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Systems and Synthetic Biology; Computational Biology; Engineered Microbial Communities; Metabolic Engineering; Mathematical Modeling; Machine Learning; Horizontal Gene transfer; Antibiotic Resistance
M
Mathias, Mark F.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4007 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7330
Interests: Application of novel materials/designs in electrochemical devices; Technology/economics of electrochemical systems
Müller, Astrid M.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4509 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7331
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Electrocatalytic Aqueous PFAS Defluorination; Organic Electrooxidations via Water Activation; Selective Carbon Dioxide Reduction; Understanding Mechanisms and Electrode Microenvironments Pulsed Laser in Liquid Fabrication of Controlled Nanomaterials ; Pulsed Laser in Liquid Fabrication of Controlled Nanomaterials
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Porosoff, Marc D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4405 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7401
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: CO2 capture and conversion; Heterogeneous thermal catalysis; C1 chemistry -Joule heating; Catalyst representation with large language models; Reactive separations
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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
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
Sharpe, Matthew
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering (secondary appointment)
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3951
Interests: Tritium storage; hydrogen isotope separation; tritium absorption, adsorption, and permeation through metals; tritium capture from flowing gas streams; tritium detection and measurement
Shestopalov, Alexander A.
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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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
Taylor, Kimberly
Grants and Contracts Administrator
- Office Location
- 4515 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7340
Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4403 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5080
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Electrochemical Energy Storage; Solid State and Lithium Metal Batteries; Polymer Thin Films, Interfaces and Thin Film Synthesis and Characterization; Vacuum Deposition Processing
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White, Andrew D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4401 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7395
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Large language models; Deep learning in chemistry; Molecular dynamics
Wu, David
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4003 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3552
- j.wu@rochester.edu
Interests: Biofuels; Systems Biology; Genomics; Transcriptional Network; Biochemical Engineering; Fermentation; Biocatalysis; Bone Marrow Engineering; Lymphoid Tissue Engineering; Molecular Biology
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Yates, Matthew Z.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 4309 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2335
Interests: Surfaces and coatings; Electrochemistry; Sensors; Open-source hardware