Organic Chemistry Faculty
Core Faculty
These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.
Dinnocenzo, Joseph P.
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 463 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8351
Interests: Mechanistic and physical organic chemistry
Frontier, Alison J.
she/her/hers
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 414 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2568
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Synthetic organic chemistry; synthesis of bioactive natural products; pericyclic reactions; asymmetric catalysis; cationic cascades
Jiang, Yishu
she/her/hers
Incoming Assistant Professor in July 2024
- Office Location
- 574A Tan Hall, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; Catalysis; Ultrafast spectroscopy and cell imaging
Kennedy, C. Rose
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 459 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8778
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Catalysis and Synthetic Methods; Organometallic Chemistry; Mechanistic and Physical Organic Chemistry
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Director, Materials Science Program
- Office Location
- 417 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3053
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry
Paradine, Shauna
she/her | they/them
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 453 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5822
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry
Partridge, Benjamin E.
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 419 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1404
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
Research Professors
Research professors do not accept graduate students, but have active research programs within the department.
Ebetino, Frank Hal
Professor of Chemistry, Research
- Telephone
- (513) 532-4084
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Medicinal chemistry and drug design, including bisphosphonates and bone targeted drugs for arthritis and cancer, receptor agonists/antagonists, and epigenetic enzyme inhibitors
Farid, Samir
Professor of Chemistry, Research
- Office Location
- 220E Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8398
Interests: Photo-induced Electron Transfer Reactions
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct faculty do not accept new graduate students and now have appointments elsewhere, although some of their students are still based at the University of Rochester.
Fasan, Rudi
he/him/his
Andrew S. Kende Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 418 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3504
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis; asymmetric biocatalysis; protein engineering; bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology