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Abdolrahim, Niaz

  • Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

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Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations

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Anthamatten, Mitchell

  • Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering
    Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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Interests: Macromolecular Self-assembly; Associative & Functional Polymers; Nanostructured Materials; Interfacial Phenomena; Optoelectronic Materials; Vapor Deposition Polymerization

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Askari, Hesam

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Interests: Mechanics of Solids and soft matter; Granular systems; Stocahstic response ; Manufacturing techniques

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Barnett, Brandon R.

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Organometallic chemistry; Porous materials; Molecular separations; Catalysis

Yasemin Basdogan

Basdogan, Yasemin

  • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Quantum Chemistry; Computational Materials Design; Energy and Sustainability; Polymers, Solutions, Catalysis

Bigelow, Nicholas P.

Bigelow, Nicholas P.

  • Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Physics
    Professor of Physics and Astronomy
    Professor of Optics
  • Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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

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Blok, Machiel

  • Assistant Professor of Physics

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Interests: quantum information processing with superconducting circuits

Mark Bocko

Bocko, Mark

  • Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)

Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers

Robert Boyd

Boyd, Robert

  • Professor of Optics
    Professor of Physics

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Interests: Nonlinear Optics

Mark Buckley

Buckley, Mark

  • Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Center for Musculoskeletal Research
    Center for Visual Science

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Interests: Viscoelasticity in soft biological tissues; Soft tissue aging, disease and repair

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Burns, Stephen J.

  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Professor Emeritus, Materials Science

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Interests: Fracture Mechanics Applied to Grinding; Polishing, Adhesion and Slitting; Deformation Kinetics; Thermodynamic Energy Balances in Linear Systems

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Jaime Cardenas

Cardenas, Jaime

  • Associate Professor of Optics

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Interests: Nanophotonics; Integrated Photonics; Biophotonics; Lasers; Nonlinear Photonics

Director Scott Carney

Carney, Scott

  • Professor of Optics

Interests: Computed Imaging; Spectroscopy; Coherence Theory

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Chen, Shaw H.

  • Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Director, Center of Advanced Materials for Photonics and Lasers

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Interests: Glassy Liquid Crystals; Robust Photoalignment Polymers; Organic Semiconductors; Self-Organization of Nanoparticles; Optoelectronic Devices

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Chimowitz, Eldred H.

  • Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering

Interests: Critical Phenomena; Supercritical Fluids; Percolation; Computer Simulation

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

Interests: Laboratory Astrophysics; High Pressure/High Energy Density Physics; Condensed Matter; Planetary Science; Plasma Physics ; Thermonuclear Fusion

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DeLouise, Lisa A.

  • Associate Professor of Dermatology
    Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Interests: Engineering Smart Bandage Bio Nanomaterials for Healing Skin

Stavros Demos

Demos, Stavros G.

  • Optical Materials Group Leader
Hanan Dery

Dery, Hanan

  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Dewhurst, Stephen

  • Professor Microbiology and Immunology
  • Vice President for Research, University of Rochester

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

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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)

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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

Interests: physics of photoconductive switches; streak-camera development; he optical response of high temperature superconductors; optical semiconductor diagnostics,; florescence of biological molecules

Marvin Doyley

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

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Interests: Therapeutic and diagnostic imaging using optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging

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Franco, Ignacio

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  • Associate Professor of Chemistry
    Associate Professor of Physics
    Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow

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Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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Funkenbusch, Paul D.

  • Associate Dean, Education and New Initiatives
    Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Professor, Materials Science

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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Yongli Gao

Gao, Yongli

  • Professor of Physics

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Interests: experimental condensed-matter physics

Chunlei Guo

Guo, Chunlei

  • Professor of Optics
    Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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Interests: Laser-Matter Interactions; Ultrafast Phenomena; Surface Functionalization; Atomic & Molecular Physics

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Harding, David R.

  • Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    Professor of Chemical Engineering (secondary appointment)

Interests: Cryogenic Properties of Solid Deuterium and Tritium; Thin-Film Deposition; Microfluidic Processes

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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

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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

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Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry

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Andrew Jordan

Jordan, Andrew N.

  • Professor of Physics (Research)

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Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics

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Jorné, Jacob

  • Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering

Interests: Electrochemistry; Energy Conversion & Storage; Fuel Cells; Flow Batteries; Lithium Batteries; Green Energy; Microelectronic Processing; Copper Electrodeposition; Reaction-Diffusion Interactions; Scaling Theory

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Douglas H. Kelley

Kelley, Douglas H.

  • Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

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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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Knowles, Kathryn

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  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Inorganic Materials Chemistry

Wayne H. Knox

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

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Krauss, Todd D.

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  • Jay Last Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering
    Professor of Chemistry
    Professor of Optics

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

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John Lambropoulos

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

Interests: Micromechanics; Mechanics & Materials Issues in Optics Manufacturing; Defect Generation During Crystal Growth

James C. M. Li

Li, James C. M.

  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Professor Emeritus, Materials Science

Interests: Materials science and micromechanics; Platinum nanowires and networks as fuel cell electrodes; Whisker growth from tin coatings; Nanocrystalline materials

Svetlana G. Lukishova

Lukishova, Svetlana G.

  • Group Leader and Adjunct Professor

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Interests: Quantum Nanophotonics; Liquid Crystals; Nonlinear Optics; Quantum and Nano-Optics Teaching Experiments; History of Optics and Photonics

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Matson, Ellen

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  • Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
    Associate Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

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McCamant, David W.

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  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation

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McGrath, James

  • William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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Interests: Cell motility; Quantitative light microscopy

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Meyer, Anne S.

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  • Associate Professor

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Interests: Synthetic biology; 3D printing of bacteria; Engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials; Survival strategies of bacteria; Organization of bacterial DNA

Benjamin L. Miller, Ph.D.

Miller, Benjamin

  • Professor of Dermatology
    Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Professor of Optics

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Interests: Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing

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Müller, Astrid M.

  • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

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

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John Nichol

Nichol, John M.

  • Associate Professor of Physics

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Interests: experimental quantum information processing and condensed-matter physics

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Nilsson, Bradley L.

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  • Professor of Chemistry
  • Director, Materials Science Program

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Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry

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Partridge, Benjamin E.

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  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering

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Pickel, Andrea

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

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Interests: Nanoscale heat transfer; luminescence nanothermometry; single-nanoparticle imaging and spectroscopy; high-temperature thermal metrology; electrothermal measurements

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Porosoff, Marc D.

  • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

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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

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Interests: theoretical astrophysics and observational astronomy

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Rothberg, Lewis

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  • Professor of Chemistry
    Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Interests: Polymer electronics; optoelectronic devices; light-emitting diodes; thin-film transistors; photodetectors; xerographic photoreceptors; biological sensors; electrooptic modulators

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Ruggiero, Michael T.

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  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

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Interests: Physical and materials chemistry; Ultrafast terahertz vibrational spectroscopy and optics; Theoretical chemistry; Diffraction and crystallography

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Rygg, J. Ryan

  • Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Physics
    Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Interests: Experimental high-energy-density physics; shock waves; inertial confinement fusion

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Shestopalov, Alexander A.

  • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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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

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Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.

  • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Interests: Electrochemical Energy Storage; Solid State Lithium Batteries and Solid Electrolytes; Polymer Thin Films, Interfaces and Thin Film Synthesis & Characterization; Vacuum Deposition Techniques

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Thorarinsdottir, Agnes E.

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  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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

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Nick Vamivakas

Vamivakas, Nick

  • Professor of Quantum Optics & Quantum Physics

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Interests: Quantum Optics; Quantum Physics

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Richard E. Waugh

Waugh, Richard E.

  • Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics

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Interests: Cell Adhesion, Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins

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White, Andrew D.

  • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

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

Gary W. Wicks

Wicks, Gary W.

  • Professor of Optics

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Interests: Molecular Beam Epitaxy; Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Stephen Wu

Wu, Stephen

  • Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Assistant Professor of Physics

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

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Wu, David

  • Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering

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

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Yates, Matthew Z.

  • Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Interests: Colloids & Interfaces; Fuel Cell Membranes; Crystallization; Microencapsulation; Particle Synthesis ; Colloidal Stabilization

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Mohamed Zaghoo

Zaghoo, Mohamed

  • Scientist

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