Quantum Materials 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
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
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
Boyd, Robert
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 308 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2329
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nonlinear Optics
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
Dery, Hanan
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 410 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3870
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
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
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
Jordan, Andrew N.
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zaghoo, Mohamed
Scientist
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0259
- Web Address
- Website