Biomedical Materials Faculty

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

Bocko, Mark
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)
- Office Location
- 709 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4879
Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers

DeLouise, Lisa A.
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1810
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Engineering Smart Bandage Bio Nanomaterials for Healing Skin

Dery, Hanan
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 410 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3870

Dewhurst, Stephen
Vice President for Research, University of Rochester
- Office Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 672
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2708
Interests: Influenza Viruses; Virus Polymerase HIV Vaccine Development; NeuroAIDS Research

Doyley, Marvin
Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology)
Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 518 Chair Office / 621 Faculty Office Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3774
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Therapeutic and diagnostic imaging using optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging

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
Kelley, Douglas H.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 218 Hopeman
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fluid dynamics of the brain’s waste removal system; Mixing in the inner ear; Liquid metal batteries and grid-scale energy storage; Mixing in metals casting; Coherent structures in reactive mixing

Knox, Wayne H.
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Professor of Visual Sciences
Professor of Materials Science
Distinguished Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 507 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5520

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

Lipomi, Darren
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4313 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4040
- Web Address
- Website

Meyer, Anne S.
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Associate Professor
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- Office Location
- 472 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9290
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Synthetic biology; 3D printing of bacteria; Engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials; Survival strategies of bacteria; Organization of bacterial DNA

Miller, Benjamin
Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Optics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9805
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing

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

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

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
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

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

Waugh, Richard E.
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 218 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3768
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cell Adhesion, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins

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

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