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Abdolrahim, Niaz
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Staff 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
Aluie, Hussein
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 406 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7170
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Turbulence; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Compressible Flows; Magnetohydrodynamics; Hydrodynamic Instabilities
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
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Betti, Riccardo
Robert L. McCrory Professor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Chief Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Director, Fusion Science Center of Extreme States of Matter and Fast Ignition
- Office Location
- 212 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1198
Interests: Thermonuclear plasmas; Controlled thermonuclear fusion; Magnetic and inertial confinement fusion; High-energy-density physics
Boster, Kimberly
Assistant Professor (Research) Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: glymphatic transport; cerebral fluid mechanics; phase change heat transfer; image processing and computer vision
Burnham-Fay, Ethan
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Engineer, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 2213 LLE
Burns, Stephen J.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 212 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4082
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fracture Mechanics Applied to Grinding; Polishing, Adhesion and Slitting; Deformation Kinetics; Thermodynamic Energy Balances in Linear Systems
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Clark, Robert
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 214 Hopeman
- rclark@rochester.edu
Interests: Dynamic systems; Measurement and control; Single-molecule mechanics; Bio-nano-manufacturing; Scaffolds for tissue engineering
Clark, Alfred, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, and Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4078
Interests: Astrophysical fluid dynamics; Oxygen transport; Disease transmission and epidemics
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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Davies, Jonathan
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Interests: Laser-produced plasmas; Magnetic fields; Fusion; Plasma diagnostics
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Ellis, Jonathan D.
Associate Professor (Visiting Research) Department of Mechanical Engineering
Interests: Instrumentation; Metrology; Optical Interferometry; Precision Engineering; Machine Design
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Funkenbusch, Paul D.
Associate Dean, Education and New Initiatives
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 222 Hopeman Hall
Interests: Microstructure, properties, and processing of materials; Variability in materials and processing especially as related to biomaterials and mechanics; Experimental design/robust design
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Gans, Roger F.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Interests: Nonlinear dynamics; Stability and control; nonNewtonian fluid mechanics
Genberg, Victor L.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 309 Hopeman Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 235-7460
Interests: Finite element analysis; Optimum structural design using nonlinear programming; Structural analysis of precision optical structures; Integrated opto-mechanical analysis and design
Glade, Rachel
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 206A Hutchison
- Telephone
- Office: (585) 273-4059
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Geomorphology; landscape evolution; sediment transport; fluids mechanics; granular physics; pattern formation
Goncharov, Valeri
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5877
Interests: Computational physics; Fluid mechanics; Partial differential equations with applications in fluid mechanics; Hydrodynamic instabilities; Plasma physics
Gopalaswamy, Varchas
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 1609 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Interests: Thermonuclear plasmas; Controlled thermonuclear fusion; Inertial confinement fusion; High-energy-density physics; Machine Learning
Gracewski, Sheryl M.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 344 Hopeman Hall
Interests: Solid mechanics, more specifically in wave propagation and vibrations in elastic media; Bubble dynamics; Optics manufacturing and metrology
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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
- 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
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Kelley, Douglas H.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 218 Hopeman
- 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
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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
Lee, Choongheon
Assistant Professor of Research
- Office Location
- 404 Hopeman
Interests: Peripheral vestibular function assessment; Inner ear drug delivery and pharmacokinetics; Pharmacological targets for hearing and balance disorders
Lerner, Amy L.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics
- Office Location
- 307 Goergen
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7847
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics; Biomechanics of bone growth and development; Medical image based modeling of knee mechanics
Li, James C. M.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 221 Hopeman Hall
Interests: Materials science and micromechanics; Platinum nanowires and networks as fuel cell electrodes; Whisker growth from tin coatings; Nanocrystalline materials
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McCrory, Robert L.
University Professor Emeritus
- Office Location
- 343 Hopeman
Interests: Theoretical Plasma and Laser Physics; Hydrodynamic stability; Thermal transport in laser-driven plasmas; Inertial confinement fusion
Mohammad, Ibrahim
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 304 Hopeman
Muir, Christopher
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 407 Hopeman
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Nam, Jong Hoon
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 203 Hopeman Building
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4555
- nam@me.rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells; Cell and tissue mechanics
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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
Perucchio, Renato
Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Program Director, Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures
- Office Location
- 236 and 415 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4071
- rlp@me.rochester.edu
Interests: Computational solid and structural mechanics; Engineering practices in Classical Antiquity
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
Polsin, Danae
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 200A LLE
Interests: x-ray diffraction and crystallography; shock waves; inertial confinement fusion; high-energy-density physics
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Regan, Sean
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Director, Experimental Division, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- LLE
Interests: Inertial Confinement Fusion; High Energy Density Physics; Novel Diagnostic Development; X-ray spectroscopy and imaging; Neutron and Charged Particle Spectroscopy and Imaging; 3-D Diagnostics
Ren, Chuang
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Physics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 203A Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 978-9673
Interests: Inertial confinement fusion; Plasma astrophysics; High performance computing including AI/ML
Ruby, JJ
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- jruby@astros.com
- Web Address
- Website
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
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Sefkow, Adam
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 205 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4130
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Inertial confinement fusion; magneto-inertial fusion; high energy density physics; laser-plasma interaction; computational physics; magnetohydrodynamics; particle-in-cell simulations
Shang, Jessica
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 206 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2730
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Experimental fluid mechanics; biological fluid systems; fluid-structure interactions; vortex dynamics; HED hydrodynamics and transport
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
Slane, Laura
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 217 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6872
Interests: Soft tissue mechanics; Quantitative ultrasound; Orthopaedic biomechanics; Injury and rehabilitation; Scholarship of teaching and learning
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Theobald, Wolfgang
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- LLE
Interests: Inertial Confinement Fusion; Diagnostic Development for High Energy Density Physics; High-Intensity Short-Pulse Laser-Matter Interaction
Thomas, John H.
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 344 Hopeman
Interests: Astrophysical fluid dynamics; Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun and other stars; Fluid dynamics of the brain's waste-removal system
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Zang, Wenjie
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 305 Hopeman
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nano-scale heterogeneous catalysts; Advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopy; Clean energy and sustainability; Energy storage devices; Machine learning for materials science