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Agrawal, Govind P.
Dr. James C. Wyant Professor of Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 515 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4846
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fiber Optics; Lasers; Optical Communications
Alonso, Miguel A.
Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 213 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7227
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Mathematical Models of Wave Propagation
B
Baran, Timothy M.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering (SMD) - Joint
- Office Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave.
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3188
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biomedical Optics; Photodynamic Therapy; Medical Image Processing
Bauer, Aaron
Research Assistant Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 503 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4037
Interests: Optical design; Freeform optics; AR/VR optics
Bentley, Julie
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 407 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1687
Interests: Optical Design; Engineering
Berger, Andrew J.
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 405 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4724
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biomedical Optics; Optics Education
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
Boyd, Robert
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 308 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2329
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nonlinear Optics
Bromage, Jake
Associate Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist and Group Leader, Laser Technology Development at LLE
- Office Location
- 270A LLE
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5105
Interests: Ultrafast and ultra-intense lasers, optical parametric amplification, and laser diagnostics
Brown, Thomas G.
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
Professor of Optics
Director, Institute of Optics
- Office Location
- 113 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7816
Interests: Optoelectronics
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
Cotrufo, Michele
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 516 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0688
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Optical metasurfaces; Quantum metamaterials; Quantum optics
E
Eberly, Joseph H.
Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 321 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4576
Interests: theoretical atomic; molecular and optical physics
F
Fienup, James R.
Robert E. Hopkins Professor of Optics
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Optics
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 410 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8009
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Phase retrieval; Wavefront Sensing; Image reconstruction and restoration; Unconventional imaging; Digital holography; Imaging with sparse apertures; Fourier optics; Synthetic-aperture radar
Foster, Thomas
Professor of Imaging Sciences, Emeritus
- Office Location
- 3-5333 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1347
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Medical Optics; Photodynamic Therapy
G
George, Nicholas
Emeritus Professor of Optics
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Physical Optics; Imaging
Giacomelli, Michael
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 5-8145 Medical Center
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multiphoton microscopy, surgical imaging, high throughput imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, high-speed analog and optoelectronics, design of microscopic and medical imaging systems
Guo, Chunlei
Professor of Optics
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
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
Huxlin, Krystel
James V. Aquavella, MD Professorship in Ophthalmology
Director of Research, Department of Ophthalmology
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Brain/Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Visual Science
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- G3186 School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5495
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Physiological Optics; Laser Vision Correction; Visual Neuroscience and Perception; Clinical Applications
K
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
Kruschwitz, Jennifer D. T.
Associate Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist, LLE
- Office Location
- 509 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7823
Interests: Optical Interference Coatings and Color
Kruschwitz, Brian
Associate Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist, LLE
- Office Location
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5104
Interests: High energy and high power laser systems; Optical systems; Adaptive optics; Laser diagnostics
L
Lin, Qiang
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 721 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3799
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanophotonic Devices; Physics and Applications
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
Marciante, John
Associate Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 514 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4737
Interests: Lasers; Waveguides; Fiber Optics; Ultrafast
Marcos, Susana
Nicholas George Endowed Professor in Optics
Professor of Optics and Ophthalmology
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
David R. Williams Director, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- G-4107 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6279
- Web Address
- Website
Miller, Benjamin L.
Dean’s Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Office Location
- 5-6141A Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9085
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Optical Biosensing and Integrated Photonics
Moore, Duncan T.
Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor in Optical Engineering Science
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Business Administration in the Simon Business School
- Office Location
- 409A Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5248
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics
P
Palastro, John
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor, Institute of Optics
Plasma Theory Group Leader and Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Interests: Laser matter interactions; nonlinear optics; plasma-based accelerators and radiation sources
Postigo, Pablo A.
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 315 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 510-8728
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanophotonics; Quantum photonics; Solar cells; Biophotonics
R
Renninger, William
Associate Professor of Optics
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 214 Wilmot
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3709
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Experimental Nonlinear Optics
Rolland, Jannick
Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
Director, NSF/IUCRC: Center for Freeform Optics
Director, R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering
- Office Location
- 505 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 752-1013
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Optical Aberration Theory; Freeform Optics; Metasurfaces; Metaform; Optical System Design; Optical Metrology; Illumination; Instrumentation and System Engineering; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); Optical Coherence Elastography (OCE); Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR); Head-Worn Displays; Heads-up Displays
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Sankey, Darius
Professor of Optics (Visiting)
- Office Location
- 316 Wilmot Building
- dsankey@iac.vc
Schmidt, Greg
Assistant Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 408 Goergen
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8012
Stroud, Carlos R., Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Optics
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Institute of Optics Historian
- Office Location
- 312 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2598
Interests: Quantum Optics
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
Visser, Taco Dirk
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 315 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1155
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Waxer, Leon
Associate Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist, LLE
- Office Location
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9515
Interests: High energy and high power laser systems; ultrafast laser systems; laser diagnostics; laser system design and modeling
Wicks, Gary W.
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 109A Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4867
Interests: Molecular Beam Epitaxy; Semiconductor Optoelectronics
Williams, David R.
William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
Director, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 270 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8672
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The Human Visual System; Physiological Optics
Y
Yoon, Geunyoung
Professor of Ophthalmology, Optics
Center for Visual science and Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- G-3184 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4998
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biomedical and Visual Optics; Ophthalmic Optics; Human Vision; Adaptive Optics
Z
Zavislan, James M.
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Professor, Center for Visual Science
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor 2018-2021
- Office Location
- 414 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9819
Interests: Optical Engineering; Biomedical Optical Systems
Zhang, Xi-Cheng
M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 415 Goergen Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0333
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Ultrafast Photonics; Nonlinear Optics; Laser Physics; TeraHertz Waves
Zuegel, Jonathan D.
Professor of Optics
Director, Laser and Materials Technology Division at LLE
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 278 Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4425
Interests: Solid-State Lasers; Nonlinear Optics; Electro-Optics; Laser Diagnostics