Materials under Extreme Conditions Faculty
Abdolrahim, Niaz
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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
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
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
Dias, Ranga
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 220 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4112
- rdias@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
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
- 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
Franco, Ignacio
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Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 454 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8209
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
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
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
Krauss, Todd D.
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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
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
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
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
Ruggiero, Michael T.
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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
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
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 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
- Office Location
- 4401 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7395
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: AI Directive Design of Materials; Molecular Simulations; Augmented-Reality in Chemical Engineering Education; Grid-Energy Storage Simulations
Zaghoo, Mohamed
Scientist
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0259
- Web Address
- Website