Rudi Fasan was born in Italy and studied Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Padua, where he received his undergraduate degree (B.S.) in 1999. In 2005, he earned his Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) working on the design and synthesis of beta-hairpin protein epitope mimetics under the supervision of Prof. John Robinson. After a postdoctoral experience with Prof. Frances Arnold at the California Institute of Technology working on the directed evolution of P450 enzymes for alkane oxidation (2005-08), Dr. Fasan joined the the Department of Chemistry of the University of Rochester in 2008, where he currently holds the position of Full Professor. In 2019, he became the inaugural recipient of the Andrew S. Kende endowed Chair in Organic and Synthetic Chemistry. His research group is engaged in the design, engineering, and application of metalloprotein catalysts for the asymmetric construction of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds and stereoselective synthesis. Current interests include the development of cytochrome P450-based chemoenzymatic strategies for late-stage C-H functionalization in organic molecules and complex natural products and the design and engineering of biocatalysts based on myoglobin and other metalloprotein scaffolds for catalyzing abiological reactions, including nitrene and carbene transfer reactions. His awards include a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007), the 2007 Friedrich-Weygand Outstanding Graduate Research Award, Provost Multidisciplinary Research Award (2011), University Research Award (2016) and the 2014 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry.