Materials under Extreme Conditions Faculty

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Abdolrahim, Niaz

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

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Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations

Mark Bocko

Bocko, Mark

  • Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Professor, Physics and Astronomy
    Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)

Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers

Robert Boyd

Boyd, Robert

  • Professor of Optics
    Professor of Physics

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Interests: Nonlinear Optics

Director Scott Carney

Carney, Scott

  • Professor of Optics

Interests: Computed Imaging; Spectroscopy; Coherence Theory

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Chen, Shaw H.

  • Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Director, Center of Advanced Materials for Photonics and Lasers

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Interests: Glassy Liquid Crystals; Robust Photoalignment Polymers; Organic Semiconductors; Self-Organization of Nanoparticles; Optoelectronic Devices

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Chimowitz, Eldred H.

  • Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering

Interests: Critical Phenomena; Supercritical Fluids; Percolation; Computer Simulation

Gilbert 'Rip' Collins

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

Interests: Laboratory Astrophysics; High Pressure/High Energy Density Physics; Condensed Matter; Planetary Science; Plasma Physics ; Thermonuclear Fusion

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Dias, Ranga

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
    Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

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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

Interests: physics of photoconductive switches; streak-camera development; he optical response of high temperature superconductors; optical semiconductor diagnostics,; florescence of biological molecules

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Franco, Ignacio

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  • Associate Professor of Chemistry
    Associate Professor of Physics
    Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow

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Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Yongli Gao

Gao, Yongli

  • Professor of Physics

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Interests: experimental condensed-matter physics

Chunlei Guo

Guo, Chunlei

  • Professor of Optics
    Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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Interests: Laser-Matter Interactions; Ultrafast Phenomena; Surface Functionalization; Atomic & Molecular Physics

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Harding, David R.

  • Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    Professor of Chemical Engineering (secondary appointment)

Interests: Cryogenic Properties of Solid Deuterium and Tritium; Thin-Film Deposition; Microfluidic Processes

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Hu, Suxing

  • Associate Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
    Group Leader, HEDP-Theory Group, LLE

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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

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Huo, Pengfei

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry
    Associate Professor of Optics

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Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry

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Kosc, Tanya Z.

  • Associate Professor; Primary: Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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Krauss, Todd D.

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  • Professor of Chemistry
    Professor of Optics

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Interests: Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors; Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials; Quantum optics and nanoscience

John Lambropoulos

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

Interests: Micromechanics; Mechanics & Materials Issues in Optics Manufacturing; Defect Generation During Crystal Growth

Svetlana G. Lukishova

Lukishova, Svetlana G.

  • Group Leader and Adjunct Professor

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Interests: Quantum Nanophotonics; Liquid Crystals; Nonlinear Optics; Quantum and Nano-Optics Teaching Experiments; History of Optics and Photonics

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Pickel, Andrea

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

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Interests: Nanoscale heat transfer; luminescence nanothermometry; single-nanoparticle imaging and spectroscopy; high-temperature thermal metrology; electrothermal measurements

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Rygg, J. Ryan

  • Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Physics
    Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Interests: Experimental high-energy-density physics; shock waves; inertial confinement fusion

Roman Sobolewski

Sobolewski, Roman

  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Physics
    Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.

  • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Interests: Electrochemical Energy Storage; Solid State Lithium Batteries and Solid Electrolytes; Polymer Thin Films, Interfaces and Thin Film Synthesis & Characterization; Vacuum Deposition Techniques

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White, Andrew D.

  • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Interests: AI Directive Design of Materials; Molecular Simulations; Augmented-Reality in Chemical Engineering Education; Grid-Energy Storage Simulations

Mohamed Zaghoo

Zaghoo, Mohamed

  • Scientist

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