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Abdolrahim, Niaz

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office Location: 215 Hopeman
Email: 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
Email: mitchell.anthamatten@rochester.edu

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
Email: 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
Email: brandon.barnett@rochester.edu
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
Email: yaseminbasdogan@rochester.edu
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
Email: nbig@pas.rochester.edu
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
Email: machielblok@rochester.edu
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
Email: mark.bocko@rochester.edu

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
Email: boyd@optics.rochester.edu
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
Email: mark.buckley@rochester.edu
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
Email: stephen.j.burns@rochester.edu
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
Email: jaime.cardenas@rochester.edu
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
Email: scott.carney@rochester.edu

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
Email: shaw.chen@rochester.edu
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
Email: eldred.chimowitz@rochester.edu

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
Email: gcollins@lle.rochester.edu

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
Email: lisa_delouise@urmc.rochester.edu
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
Email: sdemos@lle.rochester.edu

Dery, Hanan

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location: 410 Computer Studies Building
Telephone: (585) 275-3870
Email: hanan.dery@rochester.edu

Dewhurst, Stephen

Vice President for Research, University of Rochester

Office Location: 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 672
Telephone: (585) 275-2708
Email: stephen_dewhurst@urmc.rochester.edu

Interests: Influenza Viruses; Virus Polymerase HIV Vaccine Development; NeuroAIDS Research

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
Email: 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
Email: 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
Email: m.doyley@rochester.edu
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
Email: gang.fan@rochester.edu
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
Email: ignacio.franco@rochester.edu
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
Telephone: (585) 275-4074
Email: paul.funkenbusch@rochester.edu

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
Email: guo@optics.rochester.edu
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
Email: dhar@lle.rochester.edu

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
Email: shu@lle.rochester.edu
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
Email: huo@chem.rochester.edu
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)

Email: jordan@pas.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics

Jorné, Jacob

Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 4301 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-8497
Email: jacob.jorne@rochester.edu

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

Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office Location: 218 Hopeman
Email: d.h.kelley@rochester.edu
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
Email: knowles@chem.rochester.edu
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
Email: wknox@optics.rochester.edu

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
Email: todd.krauss@rochester.edu
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
Email: john.lambropoulos@rochester.edu

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
Email: james.li@rochester.edu

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
Email: darren.lipomi@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Lukishova, Svetlana G.

Professor of Optics

Office Location: 303 Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 276-5283
Email: lukishov@optics.rochester.edu

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
Email: matson@chem.rochester.edu
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
Email: mccamant@chem.rochester.edu
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
Email: james.mcgrath@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Microphysiological systems, nanomembranes for diagnostics, and microfluidics

Meyer, Anne S.

she/her/hers

Associate Professor

Research Active

Now accepting:

PhD students

Please email with inquiries.

Undergraduate researchers

Please email with inquiries.

Office Location: 472 Hutchison
Telephone: (585) 275-9290
Email: anne.meyer@rochester.edu
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
Email: benjamin_miller@urmc.rochester.edu
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
Email: astrid.mueller@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Pulsed Laser in Liquids Synthesis of Controlled Nanomaterials; Nanocatalyst Property–Functionality Relationships; Selective CO2 Reduction Catalysis; Organic Electrooxidation Catalysis; Electrocatalytic Aqueous PFAS Destruction

N

Nichol, John M.

Associate Professor of Physics

Office Location: 158 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-4396
Email: john.nichol@rochester.edu
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
Email: nilsson@chem.rochester.edu
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
Email: benjamin.partridge@rochester.edu
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
Email: apickel@ur.rochester.edu
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
Email: marc.porosoff@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: CO2 Reduction, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Catalyst Structure-Property Relationships, C1 Chemistry, Upgrading Light Alkanes

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Quillen, Alice C.

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

LLE Senior Scientist

Office Location: 424 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-9625
Email: aquillen@pas.rochester.edu
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
Email: lewis.rothberg@rochester.edu
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
Email: michael.ruggiero@rochester.edu
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
Email: j.r.rygg@rochester.edu

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
Email: alexander.shestopalov@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Surface Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Surface Patterning; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Thermodynamics

Singh, Sobhit

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Email: s.singh@rochester.edu
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
Email: roman.sobolewski@rochester.edu

Strong, Liz

Administrative Assistant for the Materials Science Program

Office Location: 4011 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-1626
Email: elizabeth.strong@rochester.edu

T

Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 4403 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-5080
Email: wyatt.tenhaeff@rochester.edu
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

Thorarinsdottir, Agnes E.

she/her/hers

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Office Location: B42 Hutchison Hall
Email: agnes.thorarinsdottir@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Inorganic chemistry; Materials chemistry; Electrochemistry; Stimuli-responsive molecules and materials; Catalysis; Clean energy

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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
Email: nick.vamivakas@rochester.edu
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
Email: richard.waugh@rochester.edu
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
Email: andrew.white@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: AI Directive Design of Materials; Molecular Simulations; Augmented-Reality in Chemical Engineering Education; Grid-Energy Storage Simulations

Wicks, Gary W.

Professor of Optics

Office Location: 109A Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 275-4867
Email: wicks@optics.rochester.edu

Interests: Molecular Beam Epitaxy; Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Wu, David

Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location: 4003 Wegmans Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-3552
Email: j.wu@rochester.edu

Interests: Biofuels; Systems Biology; Genomics; Transcriptional Network; Biochemical Engineering; Fermentation; Biocatalysis; Bone Marrow Engineering; Lymphoid Tissue Engineering; Molecular Biology