Materials for Energy Harvesting and Storage Faculty
Abdolrahim, Niaz
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 215 Hopeman
- niaz@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations
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
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
Carney, Scott
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 113 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 274-0113
Interests: Computed Imaging; Spectroscopy; Coherence Theory
Dery, Hanan
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 410 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3870
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
Hu, Suxing
Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Group Leader, HEDP-Theory Group, LLE
- Office Location
- 210 Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3794
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical/Computational High-Energy-Density Physics; Inertial Confinement Fusion; Warm-/Hot-Dense Matter; Intense Laser-Matter Interactions; Ultrafast Dynamics; Attosecond Physics; Computational Atomic; Molecular; Optical Physics
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
McGrath, James
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 306 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5489
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Microphysiological systems, nanomembranes for diagnostics, and microfluidics
Meyer, Anne S.
she/her/hers
Associate Professor
Research Active
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- Office Location
- 472 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9290
- Web Address
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Interests: Synthetic biology; 3D printing of bacteria; Engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials; Survival strategies of bacteria; Organization of bacterial DNA
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
Pickel, Andrea
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Materials Science
Assistant Professor, Institute of Optics
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 219 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9142
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanoscale heat transfer; Luminescence nanothermometry; Single-nanoparticle and super-resolution imaging and spectroscopy; High-temperature thermal metrology; Electrothermal measurements
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
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
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
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
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
Zang, Wenjie
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 305 Hopeman
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nano-scale heterogeneous catalysts; Advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopy; Clean energy and sustainability; Energy storage devices; Machine learning for materials science