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Aby, Irin
Graduate Student ('23)
Barnett Group
Afandiyeva, Medina
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('20)
Kennedy Group
Akuamoah, Daniel Aboagye
Graduate Student ('21)
Kennedy Group
Ali, Afsar
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bren Group
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2980
Aliyas, Basil
Graduate Student ('24)
Awan, Farwa
Graduate Student ('21)
Krauss Group
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B. R., Karishma
Graduate Student ('23)
Bren Group
Babu, Abhijith Suresh
Graduate Student ('23)
McCamant Group
Baker, Tessa
Magnetic Resonance Director and Safety Officer
- Office Location
- B54A Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 738-7774
Bandyopadhyay, Shamitri
Graduate Student ('24)
Banerjee, Sreeparna
Graduate Student ('23)
Krauss Group
Barnett, Brandon R.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 471 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8286
- Web Address
Interests: Organometallic chemistry; Porous materials; Molecular separations; Catalysis
Bauer, Alexis Katelyn
Graduate Student ('21)
Neidig Group
Breitbart, Emily
Administrative Assistant
Graduate Coordinator
- Office Location
- 412 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0635
Bren, Kara L.
she/her/hers
Richard S. Eisenberg Professor in Chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Chemistry
Chair, Department of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 448 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4335
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry
Brennessel, William
he/him/his
X-ray Crystallographer and Scientist
- Office Location
- B04 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4715
Burke, Liam
Graduate Student ('23)
Krauss Group
Butt, Jordan N
Graduate Student ('21)
Miller Group
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Cajiao, Nathalia
Graduate Student ('20)
Neidig Group
Carmenate Rodriguez, Chayan
Graduate Student ('20)
Krauss Group
Carmona Perez, Daniela
Graduate Student ('23)
Thorarinsdottir Group
Caruso, John
Graduate Student ('24)
Catalano, Luca
Research Associate Scientist
Ruggiero Group
- Office Location
- 36B Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-1209
Chakraborty, Arundhuti
Graduate Student ('24)
Chandra, Bittu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Barnett Group
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6766
Chen, Xinxian
Graduate Student ('19)
Franco Group
Chiang, Wesley
Postdoctoral Fellow
Krauss Group
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0215
Chourasiya, Rahul
Graduate Student ('23)
Franco Group
Claus, Hannah
Graduate Student
Partridge Group
Colon, Daniel
Stockroom Manager and Staff Accountant
- Office Location
- B14 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4237
Cooney, Shannon Elizabeth
Graduate Student ('21)
Matson Group
Coyne, Brie
Administrative and Digital Services Assistant
- Office Location
- 451 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2915
Craddock, Erica Powers
Graduate Student ('21)
Knowles Group
Crompton, Lisbeth
Graduate Student ('23)
Krauss Group
D
Dagar, Mamta
Graduate Student ('21)
Matson Group
De, Anyesh
Graduate Student ('23)
Thorarinsdottir Group
De, Apurba
Postdoctoral Fellow
Krauss Group
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0215
Dinga, Philip
Graduate Student ('23)
Thorarinsdottir Group
Dinnocenzo, Joseph P.
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 463 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8351
Interests: Mechanistic and physical organic chemistry
Distaffen, Hannah
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('19)
Nilsson Group
Dolan, Donna J.
she/her/hers
Department Receptionist and Purchaser
- Office Location
- 404E Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4231
Dora, Rishabh
Graduate Student
Franco Group
E
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
Eisenberg, Richard
Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
- Telephone
- (585) 733-2914
Interests: Synthesis, structure, reaction chemistry and applications of inorganic and organometallic systems; metal complex photochemistry; molecular, semiconductor and hybrid systems for light-to-chemical energy conversion; parahydrogen induced polarization; sustainability and the hydrogen economy.
F
Farid, Samir
Scientist
- Office Location
- 220E Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8398
Farrar, James M.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B19 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5834
- Web Address
Interests: Dynamical studies of low energy ion-molecule reactions in the gas phase; imaging studies of collisions; photochemistry of size-selected ionic clusters
Fasan, Rudi
he/him/his
Andrew S. Kende Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis; asymmetric biocatalysis; protein engineering; bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology
Ferrigno, Baela
Graduate Student ('23)
Matson Group
Fiete, Katie
she/her/hers
Staff Accountant
- Office Location
- 408 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0053
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
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
G
Gangadharan Pillai, Vivek (G Pillai)
Graduate Student ('21)
Kennedy Group
Ghaemmaghami, Sina
George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry
Professor of Biology
Director, Undergraduate Research
Research Active
Now accepting:
PhD students
Please email with inquiries.
- Office Location
- 326A Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4829
- Web Address
Interests: Protein folding and degradation; Neurodegenerative diseases and aging; Prion biology; Proteomics
Ghosh, Shruti
Graduate Student ('23)
Nilsson Group
Gimeno, Magali
Graduate Student ('20)
Neidig Group
Gorski, Hannah
Graduate Student ('23)
Matson Group
Goswami, Bappaditya
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kennedy Group
- Telephone
- (585) 210-6151
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4193
- Web Address
Interests: Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation
Guirguis, Hania
Graduate Student ('24)
Gunarathna, Nadeeshan
Graduate Student ('24)
Gustin, Ignacio
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('20)
Franco Group
H
Hafensteiner, Benjamin
Associate Professor of Instruction
- Office Location
- 124 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1936
Interests: Chemical education; total synthesis of natural products; organic synthesis; reaction invention and investigation; cascade reactions
Hastings, Christopher
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('20)
Barnett Group
Haze, Olesya
Scientist
- Office Location
- 461 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2219
- o.haze@rochester.edu
Herath, Ruwani
Graduate Student ('24)
Hern, Morgan
Graduate Student ('24)
Hickey, Joseph
he/him/his
Technical Associate
- Office Location
- B14E Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0354
Hintz, Margaret
Graduate Student ('24)
Holt, Jason
Senior Laboratory Engineer
Hong, Andrew
Graduate Student ('22)
Fasan Group
Huffman, Lucy
Graduate Student
Barnett Group
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
Huynh, Alana
Graduate Student ('23)
Bren Group
Partridge Group
I
Ibrahim, Yusuf
Graduate Student ('22)
Frontier Group
Irfan, Hafsa
Graduate Student ('21)
Bren Group
J
Jaiswal, Vartika
Graduate Student ('24)
Jiang, Yishu
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Office Location
- 448 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; Catalysis; Ultrafast spectroscopy and cell imaging
Jones, William D.
he/him/his
Charles Frederick Houghton Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B26 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5493
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Mechanistic Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis
Jones, Christopher
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('19)
Nilsson Group
K
Kaltenhauser, Nicolas
Graduate Student ('24)
Karlin, Hannah
Graduate Student ('24)
Keedakkatt Puthenpeedikakkal, Anees Mohammed
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('19)
Mathews Group
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
Knowles, Kathryn
she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 457 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0649
- Web Address
Interests: Inorganic Materials Chemistry
Koessler, Eric
Graduate Student ('20)
Huo Group
Korol, Roman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Franco Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-1351
Kosko, Ryan
Graduate Student ('20)
Bren Group
Krauss, Todd D.
he/him/his
Jay Last Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 465 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5093
- Web Address
Interests: Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors; Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials; Quantum optics and nanoscience
Kreilick, Robert W.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4231
Interests: Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Solids: Rapid Motion in Solids, Structure of Solids, Energy Transfer in Solids
Krugh, Thomas R.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4231
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; structural analysis of biomolecules, energy minimization and molecular dynamics calculations
Kumar, Parbhat
Graduate Student ('22)
Partridge Group
- Telephone
- (934) 949-7593
Kuphal, Kaye
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('20)
Bren Group
L
Lai, Yifan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Huo Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-8358
LaPierre, Alexa
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('20)
Collins Group
Lara, Neively Tlapale
Graduate Student ('23)
Paradine Group
Lazaro, Alejandro
Graduate Student ('23)
Partridge Group
Leon Baxin, Roberto
Graduate Student ('21)
Paradine Group
Lizarazo (Rojas), MarÃa Fernanda
Graduate Student ('21)
Bren Group
Lofton, Kylie
Graduate Student ('23)
Collins Group
Lu, Zhou
Postdoctoral Fellow
Matson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-8767
M
Maholick, Elaine
she/her/hers
Administrative Assistant
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
- Office Location
- 404D Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3663
Maity, Dhriti
Graduate Student ('23)
Kennedy Group
Mandal, Subhajyoti
Graduate Student ('23)
Knowles Group
Marchetti, Al
Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- B37 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4652
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
Matson, Ellen
she/her/hers
Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B45 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7792
- Web Address
Interests: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry
May, Chloe
they/them/theirs
Technical Associate
- Office Location
- B14E Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0354
- s.may@rochester.edu
McCamant, David W.
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B30 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3122
- Web Address
Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation
McGarry, Lynda
she/her/hers
Development Administrator and Alumni Relations
- Office Location
- 419 Hutchison Hall
McNichol, Caitlyn (Cay)
she/her/hers
Graduate Student ('20)
Paradine Group
Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Professor of the Institute for Optics
- Office Location
- 5-6141A MC
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9805
- Web Address
Interests: Developing new strategies for the sequence-selective recognition of RNA, and using the optical properties of nanostructured materials for the production of novel biosensors
Mitiku, Hailemariam (Haile) Alaye
Graduate Student ('21)
Kennedy Group
Mohan , Ritty
Graduate Student ('21)
Nilsson Group
Mondal, Mohammad Elious Ali
Graduate Student ('21)
Huo Group
Monteferrante, Owen E
Graduate Student ('21)
Paradine Group
Montillo, Sebastian
Graduate Student ('21)
Huo Group
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
Mudiyanselage, Lakshan Buddhika Jayawardena Manathunga
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nilsson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2007
Muenter, John S.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4231
Interests: Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Properties and Dynamics
Mullen, Abigail
Graduate Student ('24)
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4509 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7331
- Web Address
Interests: Interests: Developing new multimetallic nanomaterials for sustainable energy, green chemistry, and biomedical applications, and understanding what materials properties drive functionality
N
Neidig, Michael L.
he/him/his
Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
- Web Address
Interests: Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis and f-Element Chemistry
Ngarnim, Soraya Saleh
Graduate Student ('21)
Bren Group
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Director, Materials Science Program
- Office Location
- 417 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3053
- Web Address
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry
Niziol, Justin
Research Scientist
Dinnocenzo Group
- Office Location
- 461 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2219
O
O'Connell, Terry
Manager of Technical Staff and Instrumentation
- Office Location
- B18A Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5358
O'Neil, Shannon Theresa
Graduate Student ('21)
Paradine Group
Olsen, John-Carl
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Teaching
- Office Location
- 112-B Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4857
Interests: Chemical education; topologically non-trivial molecules and metal-ligand assemblies; nanoparticles for drug delivery; total synthesis
Ortega, John
Graduate Student ('24)
P
Panda, Rishab
Graduate Student ('24)
Panda, Aurodeep
he/him/his
Graduate Student ('20)
Jones Group
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
Patras, Kamaless
Postdoctoral Fellow
Matson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-8767
Peter, Chari Yasmin
Graduate Student ('21)
Matson Group
Petrov, Maria
Graduate Student ('24)
Phinney, Elizabeth (Liz)
Graduate Student ('21)
Krauss Group
Piacquadio, Michael
Graduate Student ('23)
Frontier Group
Piedmont, Elizabeth (Liz) Rose
Graduate Student ('21)
Partridge Group
Pittalis, Michele
Graduate Student ('24)
Poddar, Santanu
Graduate Student ('22)
Huo Group
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4305 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7401
- Web Address
Interests: CO2 Reduction; Heterogeneous Catalysis; Catalyst Structure-Property Relationships; C1 Chemistry; Upgrading Light Alkanes
R
Rahmani, Azina
Postdoctoral Fellow
Thorarinsdottir Group
Rajan, Revathy
Graduate Student ('21)
Knowles Group
Rothberg, Lewis
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 462 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Polymer electronics; optoelectronic devices; light-emitting diodes; thin-film transistors; photodetectors; xerographic photoreceptors; biological sensors; electrooptic modulators
Roy, Abhishek
Graduate Student ('22)
Partridge Group
- Telephone
- (917) 432-9113
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
S
Sanchez, Jhoan
Graduate Student ('24)
Sannigrahi, Sanchari
Graduate Student ('23)
Huo Group
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
Searle, Alexander
Graduate Student ('23)
Krauss Group
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 4507 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5434
- Web Address
Interests: Surface Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Surface Patterning; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Thermodynamics
Shiels, Dominic
Postdoctoral Fellow
Matson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 276-8767
Shojaie, Jalil
Senior Lab Engineer/Chemist
- Office Location
- B14D Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5632
Simolo, Ken
he/him/his
Assistant Chair for Administration
- Office Location
- 404A Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4256
Sithari, Hashini
Graduate Student ('23)
Ruggiero Group
Smith, Barbara
she/her/hers
Accounting Bookkeeper
- Office Location
- 408 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8277
Snaith, Barbara
she/her/hers
Administrative Assistant to the Chair
- Office Location
- 404B Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6960
Song, Yinru
Accounting Bookkeeper
- Office Location
- 408 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4221
Sornberger, Parker
Graduate Student ('23)
Ruggiero Group
Stoll, William
Graduate Student ('23)
Ruggiero Group
T
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4003 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3552
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
Teixeira Costa Peluzo, Barbara Maria
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ruggiero Group
Temino, Ignacio Camarero
Graduate Student ('20)
Jones Group
Teng, Ray
Research/Facilities Coordinator
- Office Location
- B17C Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 406-7451
Thorarinsdottir, Agnes E.
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B42 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
Interests: Inorganic chemistry; Materials chemistry; Electrochemistry; Stimuli-responsive molecules and materials; Catalysis; Clean energy
Tichy, Megan
she/her/hers
Professor of Instruction
- Office Location
- 112A Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4988
Interests: Implementation of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach and guided inquiry techniques; Integration of computer programming into the chemistry curriculum; Sustainability in the laboratory
Tiwari, Vishal
Graduate Student ('19)
Franco Group
Tschirhart, Jeff
Manager, Business Administration
Department Administrator
- Office Location
- 404A Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8255
Tsiskarishvili, Manana
Graduate Student ('23)
Kennedy Group
Turner, Douglas H.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B08 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3207
Interests: Biophysical chemistry: nucleic acid structure and function, RNA folding, therapeutics, and prediction of structure from sequence
U
Uche, Miracle
Graduate Student ('24)
V
Valerio, Leyla Rebecca
Graduate Student ('21)
Matson Group
W
Walls, Madelyn (Becca)
Graduate Student
Matson Group
Weththasinghage, Nadeeka Navajalee Teklani Panagoda
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nilsson Group
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2007
Wheeler, Doris
Business Office Manager and Senior Accountant
- Office Location
- 404A Hutchison Hall
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4001 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7395
- Web Address
Whitehead, Bevan
Graduate Student ('20)
Barnett Group
Wilson, Rumm
Grants Management Supervisor
- Office Location
- 410 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2340
Witharana, Dilmi
Graduate Student ('24)
Y
Ying, Wenxiang
Graduate Student ('20)
Huo Group
Yoon, Jin
Graduate Student ('24)
Young, Ralph
Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- B38 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4652
- qmyoung@yahoo.com
Z
Zybura, Patrycia Krystyna
Graduate Student ('21)
Frontier Group