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
Driver, Tom G.
he/him/his
Robert K. Boeckman Jr., and Mary H. Delton Family Distinguished Professor in Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organic chemistry; Organometallic chemistry; Electrochemistry; Drug discovery and development
Frontier, Alison J.
she/her/hers
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 414 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2568
- Web Address
Interests: Synthetic organic chemistry; synthesis of bioactive natural products; pericyclic reactions; asymmetric catalysis; cationic cascades
Jiang, Yishu
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Biophysics
- Office Location
- 423 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-0139
- Web Address
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; Catalysis; Ultrafast spectroscopy and cell imaging
Kennedy, C. Rose
she/her/hers
James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 459 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8778
- Web Address
Interests: Catalysis and Synthetic Methods; Organometallic Chemistry; Mechanistic and Physical Organic Chemistry
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
Andrew S. Kende Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
Director, Materials Science Program
- Office Location
- 417 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3053
- Web Address
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; Amyloid peptides; Smyloid-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
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
Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
Paton, Alexandra E.
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
Interests: Biocatalysis; Total synthesis; Data science; Natural products
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
Interests: Medicinal chemistry and drug design, including bisphosphonates and bone targeted drugs for arthritis and cancer, receptor agonists/antagonists, and epigenetic enzyme inhibitors
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 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳.
Fasan, Rudi
he/him/his
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis; asymmetric biocatalysis; protein engineering; bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology