Materials under Extreme Conditions Faculty
Abdolrahim, Niaz
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- niaz@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7817
- 404 Hopeman
Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations
Bocko, Mark
- Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)
- mark.bocko@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4879
- 709 Computer Studies Building
Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers
Boyd, Robert
- Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
- boyd@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2329
- 308 Wilmot Building
Interests: Nonlinear Optics
Carney, Scott
- Professor of Optics
- scott.carney@rochester.edu | (585) 274-0113
- 113 Wilmot Building
Interests: Computed Imaging; Spectroscopy; Coherence Theory
Chen, Shaw H.
- Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, Center of Advanced Materials for Photonics and Lasers
- schen@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4040
- 4313 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Glassy Liquid Crystals; Robust Photoalignment Polymers; Organic Semiconductors; Self-Organization of Nanoparticles; Optoelectronic Devices
Chimowitz, Eldred H.
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- eldred.chimowitz@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8497
- 4405 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Critical Phenomena; Supercritical Fluids; Percolation; Computer Simulation
Collins, Gilbert 'Rip'
- Tracy Hyde Harris Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) - Associate Director of Science, Technology and Academics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Director, Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures (CMAP)
NSF Physics Frontier Center
- gcollins@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0255
- 307 Hopeman
Interests: Laboratory Astrophysics; High Pressure/High Energy Density Physics; Condensed Matter; Planetary Science; Plasma Physics ; Thermonuclear Fusion
Dias, Ranga
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- rdias@rochester.edu | (585) 276-4112
- 220 Hopeman
Interests: High Temperature superconductivity; Quantum phase transitions; Dynamic response of solids; Novel material synthesis; High pressure NV optical magnetometry; High energy density physics
Donaldson, William R.
- Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- billd@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5347
- LLE 2421 Computer Studies Building
Interests: physics of photoconductive switches; streak-camera development; he optical response of high temperature superconductors; optical semiconductor diagnostics,; florescence of biological molecules
Franco, Ignacio
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- Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Physics
Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow
- ignacio.franco@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8209
- 454 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Gao, Yongli
- Professor of Physics
- ygao@pas.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8574
- 473 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Interests: experimental condensed-matter physics
Guo, Chunlei
- Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- guo@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2134
- 419 Wilmot Building
Interests: Laser-Matter Interactions; Ultrafast Phenomena; Surface Functionalization; Atomic & Molecular Physics
Harding, David R.
- Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Professor of Chemical Engineering (secondary appointment)
- dhar@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5850
- 250 East River Road
Interests: Cryogenic Properties of Solid Deuterium and Tritium; Thin-Film Deposition; Microfluidic Processes
Hu, Suxing
- Associate Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Group Leader, HEDP-Theory Group, LLE
- shu@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 273-3794
Interests: Theoretical/Computational High-Energy-Density Physics; Inertial Confinement Fusion; Warm-/Hot-Dense Matter; Intense Laser-Matter Interactions; Ultrafast Dynamics; Attosecond Physics; Computational Atomic; Molecular; Optical Physics
Huo, Pengfei
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Optics
- huo@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7793
- 456 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry
Kosc, Tanya Z.
- Associate Professor; Primary: Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Krauss, Todd D.
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- Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Optics
- todd.krauss@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5093
- 465 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors; Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials; Quantum optics and nanoscience
Lambropoulos, John
- Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Materials Science
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Materials Science Graduate Recruiting Committee
- john.lambropoulos@rochester.edu
- 216 Hopeman
Interests: Micromechanics; Mechanics & Materials Issues in Optics Manufacturing; Defect Generation During Crystal Growth
Lukishova, Svetlana G.
- Group Leader and Adjunct Professor
- lukishov@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 276-5283
- 303 Wilmot Building
Interests: Quantum Nanophotonics; Liquid Crystals; Nonlinear Optics; Quantum and Nano-Optics Teaching Experiments; History of Optics and Photonics
Pickel, Andrea
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- apickel@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9142
- 219 Hopeman
Interests: Nanoscale heat transfer; luminescence nanothermometry; single-nanoparticle imaging and spectroscopy; high-temperature thermal metrology; electrothermal measurements
Rygg, J. Ryan
- Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Physics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- j.r.rygg@rochester.edu | (585) 475-1549
- 307 Hopeman
Interests: Experimental high-energy-density physics; shock waves; inertial confinement fusion
Sobolewski, Roman
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Physics
Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- roman.sobolewski@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1551
- 425 Computer Studies Building
Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- wyatt.tenhaeff@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5080
- 4403 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Electrochemical Energy Storage; Solid State Lithium Batteries and Solid Electrolytes; Polymer Thin Films, Interfaces and Thin Film Synthesis & Characterization; Vacuum Deposition Techniques
White, Andrew D.
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- andrew.white@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7395
- 4001 Wegmans Hall
Interests: AI Directive Design of Materials; Molecular Simulations; Augmented-Reality in Chemical Engineering Education; Grid-Energy Storage Simulations
