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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
Email: mitchell.anthamatten@rochester.edu

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
Email: yaseminbasdogan@rochester.edu
Web Address

Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Quantum Chemistry; Computational Materials Design; Energy and Sustainability; Polymers, Solutions, Catalysis

Bhalode, Pooja

Research Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

(Tenure Track Assistant Professor starting July 2025)

Office Location: 4301 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-8497
Email: pbhalode@che.rochester.edu
Web Address

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
Email: shaw.chen@rochester.edu
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
Email: eldred.chimowitz@rochester.edu

Interests: Critical Phenomena; Supercritical Fluids; Percolation; Computer Simulation

Condit, Jennifer

Academic Administrator (undergraduate)

Office Location: 4519 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-4042
Email: jennifer.condit@rochester.edu

Cunningham, Clair

Laboratory Engineer

Office Location: 110 Gavett Hall
Telephone: (585) 273-4921
Email: clair.cunningham@rochester.edu

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Deshpande, Siddharth

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 4009 Wegmans Hall
Email: siddharth.deshpande@rochester.edu
Web Address

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
Email: gang.fan@rochester.edu
Web Address

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
Email: david.foster@rochester.edu
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

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Garlatti, Mason

Senior Laboratory Specialist

Office Location: 109C Gavett Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-7885
Email: mason.garlatti@rochester.edu

Griffin, Wayne C.

Instructor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: Gavett Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-4041
Email: wgriffi6@UR.Rochester.edu

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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
Email: dhar@lle.rochester.edu

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
Email: tal.haring@rochester.edu

Heberling, Victoria

Academic Administrator (graduate)

Office Location: 4513 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-4913
Email: victoria.heberling@rochester.edu

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Jorné, Jacob

Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 4301 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-8497
Email: jacob.jorne@rochester.edu

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
Email: mark.juba@rochester.edu

Interests: Senior Design Courses, Lab in Chemical Engineering Principles

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Kelley, F. Douglas

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering (instructional)

Office Location: 111A Gavett Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-7696
Email: doug.kelley@rochester.edu

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
Email: melodie.lawton@rochester.edu

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
Email: jeffery.lefler@rochester.edu

Lipomi, Darren

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 4313 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-4040
Email: darren.lipomi@rochester.edu
Web Address

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
Email: allison.lopatkin@rochester.edu
Web Address

Interests: Systems and Synthetic Biology; Computational Biology; Engineered Microbial Communities; Metabolic Engineering; Mathematical Modeling; Machine Learning; Horizontal Gene transfer; Antibiotic Resistance

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Mathias, Mark F.

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 4007 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 276-7330
Email: mark.mathias@rochester.edu

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
Email: astrid.mueller@rochester.edu
Web Address

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
Email: marc.porosoff@rochester.edu
Web Address

Interests: CO2 capture and conversion; Heterogeneous thermal catalysis; C1 chemistry -Joule heating; Catalyst representation with large language models; Reactive separations

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Rajendra Bhalode, Pooja

Assistant Research Professor of Chemical Engineering

(Tenure Track Assistant Professor starting July 2025)

Office Location: 4301 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-8497
Email: pbhalode@ur.rochester.edu
Web Address

Interests: Process Systems Engineering; Sustainability; Multiscale Modeling; Powder flow Modeling; Data-driven Hybrid Modeling; Solvent-based Extraction

he/him/his

Professor of Chemistry

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 462 Hutchison Hall
Email: lewis.rothberg@rochester.edu
Web Address

Interests: Polymer electronics; optoelectronic devices; light-emitting diodes; thin-film transistors; photodetectors; xerographic photoreceptors; biological sensors; electrooptic modulators

he/him/his

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 451 Hutchison Hall
Email: michael.ruggiero@rochester.edu
Web Address

Interests: Physical and materials chemistry; Ultrafast terahertz vibrational spectroscopy and optics; Theoretical chemistry; Diffraction and crystallography

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Sharpe, Matthew

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering (secondary appointment)

Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Telephone: (585) 275-3951
Email: msha@lle.rochester.edu

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
Email: alexander.shestopalov@rochester.edu
Web Address

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
Email: ching.tang@rochester.edu

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
Email: ktaylor@rochester.edu

Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 4403 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-5080
Email: wyatt.tenhaeff@rochester.edu
Web Address

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
Email: andrew.white@rochester.edu
Web Address

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
Email: 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
Email: myates@che.rochester.edu

Interests: Surfaces and coatings; Electrochemistry; Sensors; Open-source hardware