Theoretical Chemistry Faculty
Core Faculty
These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.
Franco, Ignacio
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 454 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8209
- Web Address
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Huo, Pengfei
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 456 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7793
- Web Address
Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry
Ruggiero, Michael T.
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 451 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
Interests: Physical and materials chemistry; Ultrafast terahertz vibrational spectroscopy and optics; Theoretical chemistry; Diffraction and crystallography
Schröder, Wolf-Udo
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 466 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8263
- Web Address
Interests: Dynamics of Complex Nuclear Reactions at intermediate and high energies
Cluster Affiliated Faculty
Faculty in the clusters have primary appointments in other departments but can mentor chemistry graduate students.
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4193
- Web Address
Interests: Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation
Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Office Location
- 3-8816 MC
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1734
- Web Address
Interests: Computational biology of RNA, including structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomics
Research Professors
Research professors do not accept graduate students, but have active research programs within the department.
Mort, Brendan
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Research
Director of the Center for Integrated Research and Computing
- Office Location
- 1215 Wegmans
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8289
Interests: High performance computing; application of computing technology to chemistry and biology; computational chemistry algorithm development; molecular dynamics simulations, electronic structure theory