Core Faculty
Anthamatten, Mitchell
- Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- mitchell.anthamatten@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5526
- 4311 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Macromolecular Self-assembly; Associative & Functional Polymers; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Phenomena; Optoelectronic Materials; Vapor Deposition Polymerization
Basdogan, Yasemin
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- yaseminbasdogan@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4584
- 4305 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Quantum Chemistry; Computational Materials Design; Energy and Sustainability; Polymers, Solutions, Catalysis
Chen, Shaw H.
- Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, Center of Advanced Materials for Photonics and Lasers
- shaw.chen@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4040
- 4313 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Glassy Liquid Crystals; Robust Photoalignment Polymers; Organic Semiconductors; Self-Organization of Nanoparticles; Optoelectronic Devices
Deshpande, Siddharth
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Starting January 2024
- 4009 Wegmans Hall
Fan, Gang
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Starting January 2024 | (585) 275-2355
- 4307 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Polymer Chemistry, Plastic Upcycling, Bio-inspired Catalysis, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Bioelectrochemistry and Water-remediation.
Foster, David G.
- Professor of Chemical Engineering (instructional)
- Director of Undergraduate Program
- david.foster@rochester.edu | (585) 276-5350
- 4001 Wegmans Hall
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.
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering (instructional)
- Laboratory Director, Teaching Labs
- melodie.lawton@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5162
- 111B Gavett Hall
Interests: Shape Memory Polymers; Polymeric Composites; Biomaterials; Polymer Degradation; Controlled Drug Delivery; Structure-Property Relationships.
Lopatkin, Allison J.
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- allison.lopatkin@rochester.edu | (585) 275-6858
- 4303 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Computational Biology, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Bacterial Population Dynamics, Microbial Metabolism, Antibiotic Resistance
Müller, Astrid M.
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- astrid.mueller@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7331
- 4509 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Pulsed Laser in Liquids Synthesis of Controlled Nanomaterials; Nanocatalyst Property–Functionality Relationships; Selective CO2 Reduction Catalysis; Organic Electrooxidation Catalysis; Electrocatalytic Aqueous PFAS Destruction
Porosoff, Marc D.
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- marc.porosoff@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7401
- 4405 Wegmans Hall
Interests: CO2 Reduction, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Catalyst Structure-Property Relationships, C1 Chemistry, Upgrading Light Alkanes
Shestopalov, Alexander A.
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- alexander.shestopalov@rochester.edu | (585) 276-5434
- 4507 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Surface Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Surface Patterning; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Thermodynamics
Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- wyatt.tenhaeff@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5080
- 4403 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Electrochemical Energy Storage; Solid State Lithium Batteries and Solid Electrolytes; Polymer Thin Films, Interfaces and Thin Film Synthesis & Characterization; Vacuum Deposition Techniques
White, Andrew D.
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- andrew.white@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7395
- 4401 Wegmans Hall
Interests: AI Directive Design of Materials; Molecular Simulations; Augmented-Reality in Chemical Engineering Education; Grid-Energy Storage Simulations
Yates, Matthew Z.
- Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- myates@che.rochester.edu | (585) 273-2335
- 4309 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Colloids & Interfaces; Fuel Cell Membranes; Crystallization; Microencapsulation; Particle Synthesis ; Colloidal Stabilization