Quantum Materials Faculty

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Abdolrahim, Niaz

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office Location
215 Hopeman
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Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations

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Askari, Hesam

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Office Location
223 Hopeman
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Interests: Mechanics of Solids and soft matter; Granular systems; Stocahstic response ; Manufacturing techniques

Bigelow, Nicholas P.

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
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Interests: Quantum physics; Quantum optics; Experimental atomic; Molecular and optical physics

Gilbert 'Rip' Collins

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

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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)

Office Location
220 Hopeman
Telephone
(585) 276-4112
Web Address
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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

Office Location
LLE 2421 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-5347

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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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
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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

Office Location
456 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7793
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Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry

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

Svetlana G. Lukishova

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

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McCamant, David W.

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Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office Location
B30 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-3122
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Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation

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Shestopalov, Alexander A.

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Office Location
4507 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-5434
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Interests: Surface Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Surface Patterning; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Thermodynamics

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Singh, Sobhit

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Interests: Novel quantum materials (bulk and 2D); Theoretical condensed matter physics; Density-functional theory; Polar metals; Ferroelectrics; Magnetism; Superconductivity; Topological phases of quantum matter

Roman Sobolewski

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
Nick Vamivakas

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
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Interests: Quantum Optics; Quantum Physics

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White, Andrew D.

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location
4401 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7395
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Interests: AI Directive Design of Materials; Molecular Simulations; Augmented-Reality in Chemical Engineering Education; Grid-Energy Storage Simulations

Stephen Wu

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
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Interests: Spintronics; Nanoscale electronics; Novel electronic materials; Quantum materials and devices