Core 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
Basdogan, Yasemin
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4305 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4584
- Web Address
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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
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Interests: Process Systems Engineering; Sustainability; Multiscale Modeling; Powder flow Modeling; Data-driven Hybrid Modeling; Solvent-based Extraction
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
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Interests: Glassy Liquid Crystals; Robust Photoalignment Polymers; Organic Semiconductors; Self-Organization of Nanoparticles; Optoelectronic Devices
Deshpande, Siddharth
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4009 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
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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
Fan, Gang
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4307 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2355
- Web Address
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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
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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
Lawton, Melodie I.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering (Instructional)
Associate Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering
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.
Lipomi, Darren
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4313 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4040
- Web Address
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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
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Interests: Systems and Synthetic Biology; Computational Biology; Engineered Microbial Communities; Metabolic Engineering; Mathematical Modeling; Machine Learning; Horizontal Gene transfer; Antibiotic Resistance
Müller, Astrid M.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4509 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7331
- Web Address
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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
Porosoff, Marc D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4405 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7401
- Web Address
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Interests: CO2 capture and conversion; Heterogeneous thermal catalysis; Catalyst representation with large language models; Reactive separations
Shestopalov, Alexander A.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 4507 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5434
- Web Address
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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
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Interests: Electrochemical Energy Storage; Solid State and Lithium Metal Batteries; Polymer Thin Films, Interfaces and Thin Film Synthesis and Characterization; Vacuum Deposition Processing
White, Andrew D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4401 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7395
- Web Address
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Interests: Large language models; Deep learning in chemistry; Molecular dynamics
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