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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
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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
C

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

Chimowitz, Eldred H.
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- eldred.chimowitz@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8497
- 4301 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Critical Phenomena; Supercritical Fluids; Percolation; Computer Simulation

Condit, Jennifer
- Undergraduate Coordinator
- jennifer.condit@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4042
- 4519 Wegmans Hall

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Deshpande, Siddharth
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Starting January 2024
- 4009 Wegmans Hall
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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
G

Garlatti, Mason
- Senior Technical Associate
- mason.garlatti@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7885
- 109C Gavett Hall

Griffin, Wayne C.
- Adjunct Lecturer of Chemical Engineering
- wgriffi6@UR.Rochester.edu | (585) 275-4041
- Gavett Hall
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Harding, David R.
- Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Professor of Chemical Engineering (secondary appointment)
- dhar@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5850
- 250 East River Road
Interests: Cryogenic Properties of Solid Deuterium and Tritium; Thin-Film Deposition; Microfluidic Processes

Heberling, Victoria
- Graduate Coordinator
- victoria.heberling@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4913
- 4513 Wegmans Hall
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Jorné, Jacob
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- jacob.jorne@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8497
- 4301 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Electrochemistry; Energy Conversion & Storage; Fuel Cells; Flow Batteries; Lithium Batteries; Green Energy; Microelectronic Processing; Copper Electrodeposition; Reaction-Diffusion Interactions; Scaling Theory

Juba, Mark
- Adjunct Lecturer of Chemical Engineering
- mark.juba@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7330
- 4007 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Senior Design Courses, Lab in Chemical Engineering Principles
K

Kelley, F. Douglas
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering (instructional)
- doug.kelley@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7696
- 111A Gavett Hall
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
- 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.

Lefler, Jeffery
- Senior Technical Associate
- jeffery.lefler@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4047
- 104 Gavett Hall

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
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Mathias, Mark F.
- Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering
- mark.mathias@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7330
- 4007 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Application of novel materials/designs in electrochemical devices; Technology/economics of electrochemical systems

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
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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
R

Rothberg, Lewis J.
- Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical Engineering (secondary appointment)
- lewis.rothberg@rochester.edu | (585) 273-4725
- 462 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Polymer electronics; Optoelectronic devices; Light-emitting diodes; Thin-film transistors; Photodetectors; Xerographic photoreceptors; Biological sensors; Electrooptic modulators
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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
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Tang, Ching W.
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- ching.tang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3552
- 4003 Wegmans Hall
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


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
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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

Willison, Sandra
- Academic Operations Manager, AS&E
- sandra.willison@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7917
- 4517 Wegmans Hall

Wu, David
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- j.wu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3552
- 4003 Wegmans Hall
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
- myates@che.rochester.edu | (585) 273-2335
- 4309 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Colloids & Interfaces; Fuel Cell Membranes; Crystallization; Microencapsulation; Particle Synthesis ; Colloidal Stabilization