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Abdolrahim, Niaz
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 215 Hopeman
- niaz@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations
Anthamatten, Mitchell
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 4311 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5526
Interests: Macromolecular Self-assembly; Associative & Functional Polymers; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Phenomena; Optoelectronic Materials; Vapor Deposition Polymerization
Askari, Hesam
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 223 Hopeman
- askari@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Mechanics of Solids and soft matter; Granular systems; Stocahstic response ; Manufacturing techniques
B
Barnett, Brandon R.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 471 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8286
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organometallic chemistry; Porous materials; Molecular separations; Catalysis
Basdogan, Yasemin
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4305 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4584
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Quantum Chemistry; Computational Materials Design; Energy and Sustainability; Polymers, Solutions, Catalysis
Bigelow, Nicholas P.
Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Physics
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Professor of Optics
LLE Distinguished Scientist
Director of URNano
- Office Location
- 312 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8549
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Quantum physics; Quantum optics; Experimental atomic; Molecular and optical physics
Blok, Machiel
Assistant Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 420 Bausch and Lomb
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5389
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: quantum information processing with superconducting circuits
Bocko, Mark
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)
- Office Location
- 709 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4879
Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers
Boyd, Robert
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 308 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2329
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nonlinear Optics
Buckley, Mark
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 317 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4195
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Soft tissue biomechanics, surgical biomechanics, viscoelasticity and poroelasticity, novel imaging techniques to characterize soft tissue properties
Burns, Stephen J.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 212 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4082
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fracture Mechanics Applied to Grinding; Polishing, Adhesion and Slitting; Deformation Kinetics; Thermodynamic Energy Balances in Linear Systems
C
Cardenas, Jaime
Associate Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 226 Wilmot
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7320
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanophotonics; Integrated Photonics; Biophotonics; Lasers; Nonlinear Photonics
Carney, Scott
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 113 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 274-0113
Interests: Computed Imaging; Spectroscopy; Coherence Theory
Chen, Shaw H.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, Center of Advanced Materials for Photonics and Lasers
- Office Location
- 4313 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4040
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Glassy Liquid Crystals; Robust Photoalignment Polymers; Organic Semiconductors; Self-Organization of Nanoparticles; Optoelectronic Devices
Chimowitz, Eldred H.
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4301 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8497
Interests: Critical Phenomena; Supercritical Fluids; Percolation; Computer Simulation
Collins, Gilbert 'Rip'
Tracy Hyde Harris Professor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Physics
Associate Director of Science, Technology and Academics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Director, Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures (CMAP)
NSF Physics Frontier Center
- Office Location
- 307 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0255
Interests: Laboratory Astrophysics; High Pressure/High Energy Density Physics; Condensed Matter; Planetary Science; Plasma Physics ; Thermonuclear Fusion
D
DeLouise, Lisa A.
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1810
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Engineering Smart Bandage Bio Nanomaterials for Healing Skin
Demos, Stavros G.
Optical Materials Group Leader
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4837
Dery, Hanan
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 410 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3870
Dewhurst, Stephen
Vice President for Research, University of Rochester
- Office Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 672
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2708
Interests: Influenza Viruses; Virus Polymerase HIV Vaccine Development; NeuroAIDS Research
Donaldson, William R.
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- LLE 2421 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5347
- billd@lle.rochester.edu
Interests: physics of photoconductive switches; streak-camera development; he optical response of high temperature superconductors; optical semiconductor diagnostics,; florescence of biological molecules
Doyley, Marvin
Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology)
Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 518 Chair Office / 621 Faculty Office Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3774
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Therapeutic and diagnostic imaging using optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging
F
Fan, Gang
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4307 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2355
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Polymer Chemistry; Plastic Upcycling; Bio-inspired Catalysis; Synthetic Biology; Metabolic Engineering; Bioelectrochemistry and Water-remediation
Franco, Ignacio
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 454 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8209
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Funkenbusch, Paul D.
Associate Dean, Education and New Initiatives
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 222 Hopeman Hall
Interests: Microstructure, properties, and processing of materials; Variability in materials and processing especially as related to biomaterials and mechanics; Experimental design/robust design
G
Guo, Chunlei
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 419 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2134
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Laser-Matter Interactions; Ultrafast Phenomena; Surface Functionalization; Atomic & Molecular Physics
H
Harding, David R.
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Professor of Chemical Engineering (secondary appointment)
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5850
Interests: Cryogenic Properties of Solid Deuterium and Tritium; Thin-Film Deposition; Microfluidic Processes
Hu, Suxing
Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Group Leader, HEDP-Theory Group, LLE
- Office Location
- 210 Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3794
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Office Location
- 456 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7793
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry
J
Jordan, Andrew N.
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics
Jorné, Jacob
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4301 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8497
Interests: Electrochemistry; Energy Conversion & Storage; Fuel Cells; Flow Batteries; Lithium Batteries; Green Energy; Microelectronic Processing; Copper Electrodeposition; Reaction-Diffusion Interactions; Scaling Theory
K
Kelley, Douglas H.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 218 Hopeman
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fluid dynamics of the brain’s waste removal system; Mixing in the inner ear; Liquid metal batteries and grid-scale energy storage; Mixing in metals casting; Coherent structures in reactive mixing
Knowles, Kathryn
she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 457 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0649
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Inorganic Materials Chemistry
Knox, Wayne H.
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Professor of Visual Sciences
Professor of Materials Science
Distinguished Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 507 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5520
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
- Website
Interests: Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors; Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials; Quantum optics and nanoscience
L
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
- Office Location
- 216 Hopeman
Interests: Micromechanics; Mechanics & Materials Issues in Optics Manufacturing; Defect Generation During Crystal Growth
Li, James C. M.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 221 Hopeman Hall
Interests: Materials science and micromechanics; Platinum nanowires and networks as fuel cell electrodes; Whisker growth from tin coatings; Nanocrystalline materials
Lipomi, Darren
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4313 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4040
- Web Address
- Website
Lukishova, Svetlana G.
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 303 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5283
Interests: Quantum Nanophotonics; Liquid Crystals; Nonlinear Optics; Quantum and Nano-Optics Teaching Experiments; History of Optics and Photonics
M
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
- Website
Interests: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry
McCamant, David W.
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B30 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3122
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation
McGrath, James
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 306 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5489
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Microphysiological systems, nanomembranes for diagnostics, and microfluidics
Meyer, Anne S.
she/her/hers
Associate Professor
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- Office Location
- 472 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9290
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Synthetic biology; 3D printing of bacteria; Engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials; Survival strategies of bacteria; Organization of bacterial DNA
Miller, Benjamin
Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Optics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9805
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing
Müller, Astrid M.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4509 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7331
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Electrocatalytic Aqueous PFAS Defluorination; Organic Electrooxidations via Water Activation; Selective Carbon Dioxide Reduction; Understanding Mechanisms and Electrode Microenvironments Pulsed Laser in Liquid Fabrication of Controlled Nanomaterials ; Pulsed Laser in Liquid Fabrication of Controlled Nanomaterials
N
Nichol, John M.
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 158 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4396
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental quantum information processing and condensed-matter physics
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Director, Materials Science Program
- Office Location
- 417 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3053
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry
P
Partridge, Benjamin E.
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 419 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1404
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
Pickel, Andrea
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Materials Science
Assistant Professor, Institute of Optics
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 219 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9142
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanoscale heat transfer; Luminescence nanothermometry; Single-nanoparticle and super-resolution imaging and spectroscopy; High-temperature thermal metrology; Electrothermal measurements
Porosoff, Marc D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4405 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7401
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: CO2 capture and conversion; Heterogeneous thermal catalysis; C1 chemistry -Joule heating; Catalyst representation with large language models; Reactive separations
Q
Quillen, Alice C.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- 424 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9625
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical astrophysics and observational astronomy
R
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
Ruggiero, Michael T.
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 451 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Physical and materials chemistry; Ultrafast terahertz vibrational spectroscopy and optics; Theoretical chemistry; Diffraction and crystallography
Rygg, J. Ryan
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Physics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 307 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 475-1549
Interests: Experimental high-energy-density physics; shock waves; inertial confinement fusion
S
Shestopalov, Alexander A.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 4507 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5434
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Surface Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Surface Patterning; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Thermodynamics
Singh, Sobhit
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Novel quantum materials (bulk and 2D); Theoretical condensed matter physics; Density-functional theory; Polar metals; Ferroelectrics; Magnetism; Superconductivity; Topological phases of quantum matter
Sobolewski, Roman
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Physics
Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 425 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1551
T
Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4403 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5080
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Electrochemical Energy Storage; Solid State and Lithium Metal Batteries; Polymer Thin Films, Interfaces and Thin Film Synthesis and Characterization; Vacuum Deposition Processing
Thorarinsdottir, Agnes E.
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B42 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Inorganic chemistry; Materials chemistry; Electrochemistry; Stimuli-responsive molecules and materials; Catalysis; Clean energy
V
Vamivakas, Nickolas A.
Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Optical Physics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Dean of Graduate Education and Post-Doctoral Affairs
- Office Location
- 101 Wilmot Annex
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2089
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Quantum Optics; Quantum Physics
W
Waugh, Richard E.
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 218 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3768
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cell Adhesion, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins
White, Andrew D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4401 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7395
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Large language models; Deep learning in chemistry; Molecular dynamics
Wicks, Gary W.
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 109A Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4867
Interests: Molecular Beam Epitaxy; Semiconductor Optoelectronics
Wu, Stephen
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 610 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3497
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Spintronics; Nanoscale electronics; Novel electronic materials; Quantum materials and devices
Wu, David
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4003 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3552
- j.wu@rochester.edu
Interests: Biofuels; Systems Biology; Genomics; Transcriptional Network; Biochemical Engineering; Fermentation; Biocatalysis; Bone Marrow Engineering; Lymphoid Tissue Engineering; Molecular Biology
Y
Yates, Matthew Z.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 4309 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2335
Interests: Surfaces and coatings; Electrochemistry; Sensors; Open-source hardware
Z
Zaghoo, Mohamed
Scientist
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0259
- Web Address
- Website
Zang, Wenjie
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 305 Hopeman
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nano-scale heterogeneous catalysts; Advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopy; Clean energy and sustainability; Energy storage devices; Machine learning for materials science