Sustainable Materials 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

Barnett, Brandon R.
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- brandon.barnett@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8286
- 471 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organometallic chemistry; Porous materials; Molecular separations; Catalysis

DeLouise, Lisa A.
- Associate Professor of Dermatology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- lisa_delouise@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1810
Interests: Engineering Smart Bandage Bio Nanomaterials for Healing Skin

Hu, Suxing
- Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Group Leader, HEDP-Theory Group, LLE
- shu@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 273-3794
- 210 Laboratory for Laser Energetics
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

Knowles, Kathryn
she/her/hers
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- knowles@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0649
- 457 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Inorganic Materials Chemistry

Matson, Ellen
she/her/hers
- Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- matson@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7792
- B45 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

McCamant, David W.
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- mccamant@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3122
- B30 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation

Meyer, Anne S.
she/her/hers
- Associate Professor
- anne.meyer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9290
- 472 Hutchison
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
- 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

Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
- Professor of Chemistry
- Director, Materials Science Program
- nilsson@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3053
- 417 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry

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

Ruggiero, Michael T.
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- michael.ruggiero@rochester.edu
- 451 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Physical and materials chemistry; Ultrafast terahertz vibrational spectroscopy and optics; Theoretical chemistry; Diffraction and crystallography

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

Thorarinsdottir, Agnes E.
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- agnes.thorarinsdottir@rochester.edu
- B32 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Inorganic chemistry; Materials chemistry; Electrochemistry; Stimuli-responsive molecules and materials; Catalysis; Clean energy