Materials under Extreme Conditions Faculty
Abdolrahim, Niaz
- Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- niaz@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7817
- 404 Hopeman
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)
- mark.bocko@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4879
- 709 Computer Studies Building
Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers
Boyd, Robert
- Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
- boyd@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2329
- 308 Wilmot Building
Interests: Nonlinear Optics
Carney, Scott
- Professor of Optics
- scott.carney@rochester.edu | (585) 274-0113
- 113 Wilmot Building
Interests: Computed Imaging; Spectroscopy; Coherence Theory
Chen, Shaw H.
- Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, Center of Advanced Materials for Photonics and Lasers
- shaw.chen@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4040
- 4313 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Glassy Liquid Crystals; Robust Photoalignment Polymers; Organic Semiconductors; Self-Organization of Nanoparticles; Optoelectronic Devices
Chimowitz, Eldred H.
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- eldred.chimowitz@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8497
- 4301 Wegmans Hall
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
- gcollins@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0255
- 307 Hopeman
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)
- rdias@rochester.edu | (585) 276-4112
- 220 Hopeman
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
- billd@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5347
- LLE 2421 Computer Studies Building
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
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Physics
Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow
- ignacio.franco@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8209
- 454 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Gao, Yongli
- Professor of Physics
- ygao@pas.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8574
- 473 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Interests: experimental condensed-matter physics
Guo, Chunlei
- Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- guo@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2134
- 419 Wilmot Building
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)
- dhar@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5850
- 250 East River Road
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
- shu@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 273-3794
- 210 Laboratory for Laser Energetics
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
- huo@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7793
- 456 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry
Krauss, Todd D.
he/him/his
- Jay Last Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Optics
- todd.krauss@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5093
- 465 Hutchison Hall
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
- john.lambropoulos@rochester.edu
- 216 Hopeman
Interests: Micromechanics; Mechanics & Materials Issues in Optics Manufacturing; Defect Generation During Crystal Growth
Lukishova, Svetlana G.
- Group Leader and Adjunct Professor
- lukishov@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 276-5283
- 303 Wilmot Building
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
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- apickel@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9142
- 219 Hopeman
Interests: Nanoscale heat transfer; luminescence nanothermometry; single-nanoparticle imaging and spectroscopy; high-temperature thermal metrology; electrothermal measurements
Ruggiero, Michael T.
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- michael.ruggiero@rochester.edu
- 451 Hutchison Hall
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
- j.r.rygg@rochester.edu | (585) 475-1549
- 307 Hopeman
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
- roman.sobolewski@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1551
- 425 Computer Studies Building
Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- wyatt.tenhaeff@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5080
- 4403 Wegmans Hall
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
- andrew.white@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7395
- 4401 Wegmans Hall
Interests: AI Directive Design of Materials; Molecular Simulations; Augmented-Reality in Chemical Engineering Education; Grid-Energy Storage Simulations
