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Agrawal, Govind P.

Dr. James C. Wyant Professor of Optics

Professor of Optics

Professor of Physics

Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Office Location: 515 Goergen Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-4846
Email: gpa@optics.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Fiber Optics; Lasers; Optical Communications

Alonso, Miguel A.

Professor of Optics

Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Office Location: 213 Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 275-7227
Email: alonso@optics.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Mathematical Models of Wave Propagation

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Baran, Timothy M.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering (SMD) - Joint

Office Location: 601 Elmwood Ave.
Telephone: (585) 276-3188
Email: timothy.baran@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Biomedical Optics; Photodynamic Therapy; Medical Image Processing

Research Assistant Professor Aaron Bauer.

Bauer, Aaron

Research Assistant Professor of Optics

Office Location: 503 Goergen Hall
Telephone: (585) 273-4037
Email: aaron.bauer@rochester.edu

Interests: Optical design; Freeform optics; AR/VR optics

Bentley, Julie

Professor of Optics

Office Location: 407 Goergen Hall
Telephone: (585) 273-1687
Email: bentley@optics.rochester.edu

Interests: Optical Design; Engineering

Berger, Andrew J.

Professor of Optics

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Office Location: 405 Goergen Hall
Telephone: (585) 273-4724
Email: ajberger@optics.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Biomedical Optics; Optics Education

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

Boedo, Emily

Lab Technician

Office Location: 501 Goergen Hall
Email: eboedo@optics.rochester.edu

Bowen, John

Adjunct Faculty Member

Telephone: (585) 415-1752
Email: Bowen@photongear.com

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

Brea, Meir

Staff Accountant

Office Location: 123 Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 275-2672
Email: meir.brea@rochester.edu

Bromage, Jake

Associate Professor of Optics

Senior Scientist and Group Leader, Laser Technology Development at LLE

Office Location: 270A LLE
Telephone: (585) 273-5105
Email: jbro@lle.rochester.edu

Interests: Ultrafast and ultra-intense lasers, optical parametric amplification, and laser diagnostics

Brown, Thomas G.

Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor

Professor of Optics

Director, Institute of Optics

Office Location: 113 Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 275-7816
Email: brown@optics.rochester.edu

Interests: Polarization Microscopy; Freeform Optical Metrology; Photonic Integrated Circuits

Buralli, Dale

Adjunct Associate Professor

Telephone: (585) 272-6170
Email: buralli@apollooptical.com

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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

Cobb, Josh

Adjunct Associate Professor of Optics

Email: joshua.cobb@rochester.edu

Cotrufo, Michele

he/him/his

Assistant Professor of Optics

Office Location: 516 Goergen Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-0688
Email: michele.cotrufo@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Optical metasurfaces; Quantum metamaterials; Quantum optics

D

Davies, Kai

Graduate Program Coordinator

Office Location: 105 Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 275-7629
Email: kai.davies@rochester.edu

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Fienup, James R.

Robert E. Hopkins Professor of Optics

Professor of Optics

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor in the Center for Visual Science

Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Office Location: 410 Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 275-8009
Email: fienup@optics.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Phase retrieval; Wavefront Sensing; Image reconstruction and restoration; Unconventional imaging; Digital holography; Imaging with sparse apertures; Fourier optics; Synthetic-aperture radar

Foster, Thomas

Professor of Imaging Sciences, Emeritus

Office Location: 3-5333 Medical Center
Telephone: (585) 275-1347
Email: thomas.foster@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Medical Optics; Photodynamic Therapy

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George, Nicholas

Emeritus Professor of Optics

Email: nicholas.george@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Physical Optics; Imaging

Giacomelli, Michael

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor of Optics

Office Location: 5-8145 Medical Center
Email: m.giacomelli@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Multiphoton microscopy, surgical imaging, high throughput imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, high-speed analog and optoelectronics, design of microscopic and medical imaging systems

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

Herger, Edward

Senior Lab Engineer

Office Location: 533 Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 275-7762
Email: edward.herger@rochester.edu

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

Huxlin, Krystel

James V. Aquavella, MD Professorship in Ophthalmology

Director of Research, Department of Ophthalmology

Professor of Ophthalmology

Professor of Brain/Cognitive Sciences

Professor of Visual Science

Professor of Neuroscience

Professor of Optics

Office Location: G3186 School of Medicine and Dentistry
Telephone: (585) 275-5495
Email: khuxlin@ur.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Physiological Optics; Laser Vision Correction; Visual Neuroscience and Perception; Clinical Applications

K

Karimaparambil Raju, Sethuraj

Postdoctoral Associate

Nick Vamivakas, Quantum Nanophotonics Group / Vamivakas Lab

Office Location: 105 Wilmot Annex
Telephone: (650) 512-4380
Email: skarimpa@ur.rochester.edu

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

Koch, Michael

Research Engineer

Wicks Group

Office Location: LLE
Telephone: (585) 273-2677
Email: mkoc@lle.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

Kruschwitz, Jennifer D. T.

Associate Professor of Optics

Senior Scientist, LLE

Office Location: 509 Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 276-7823
Email: jennifer.kruschwitz@rochester.edu

Interests: Optical Interference Coatings and Color

Kruschwitz, Brian

Associate Professor of Optics

Senior Scientist, LLE

Office Location: Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Telephone: (585) 273-5104
Email: bkru@lle.rochester.edu

Interests: High energy and high power laser systems; Optical systems; Adaptive optics; Laser diagnostics

Kuper, Jerry

Senior Scientist

Boyd Group

Office Location: 320 Wilmot Building
Email: djwkuper@gmail.com

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Lin, Qiang

Dean's Professor

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Optics

Office Location: 721 Computer Studies Building
Telephone: (585) 275-3799
Email: qiang.lin@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Nanophotonic Devices; Physics and Applications

Luciano, Marylou

Administrative Coordinator

Office Location: 114 Wilmot Building
Email: mluciano@optics.rochester.edu

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

Mait, Joseph

Adjunct Instructor

Email: joseph.mait@rochester.edu

Marciante, John

Associate Professor of Optics

Office Location: 514 Goergen Hall
Telephone: (585) 273-4737
Email: marciante@optics.rochester.edu

Interests: Lasers; Waveguides; Fiber Optics; Ultrafast

Marcos, Susana

Nicholas George Endowed Professor in Optics

Professor of Optics and Ophthalmology

Professor in the Center for Visual Science

David R. Williams Director, Center for Visual Science

Office Location: G-4107 Medical Center
Telephone: (585) 276-6279
Email: smarcos2@ur.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Miller, Benjamin L.

Dean’s Professor of Dermatology

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Optics

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Office Location: 5-6141A Medical Center
Telephone: (585) 275-9085
Email: benjamin_miller@urmc.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Optical Biosensing and Integrated Photonics

Moore, Duncan T.

Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor Emeritus in Optical Engineering Science

Professor Emeritus

Office Location: 409A Goergen Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-5248
Email: moore@optics.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics

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Nadorff, Georg

Adjunct Instructor

Email: georg.nadorff@rochester.edu

Nelson, Jessica DeGroote

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Telephone: (585) 820-8008
Email: jessica.degroote@rochester.edu

Newman, Dustin

Marketing, Communications, and Outreach Manager

Office Location: 413 Goergen Hall
Email: dustin.newman@rochester.edu

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Otte, Eileen

she/her/hers

Assistant Professor of Optics

Office Location: 514 Goergen Hall
Email: eotte@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Structured light; Singular and topological optics; Quantum optics; Nanophotonics and metasurfaces; Advanced imaging; Light-matter interactions; Optical metrology; Optical trapping; Biophotonics; Holography

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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

Email: jpal@lle.rochester.edu

Interests: Laser matter interactions; nonlinear optics; plasma-based accelerators and radiation sources

Pomerantz, Michael

Technical Associate

Office Location: 103 Hopeman Hall
Telephone: (585) 276-6818
Email: mpomera2@ur.rochester.edu

Postigo, Pablo A.

Professor of Optics

Office Location: 315 Wilmot Building
Telephone: (585) 510-8728
Email: ppostigo@ur.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Nanophotonics; Quantum photonics; Solar cells; Biophotonics

Pultorak, David

Adjunct Instructor

Email: david.pultorak@rochester.edu

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Reiner, Lynn

Executive Administrative Assistant

Office Location: 409 Goergen Hall
Telephone: (585) 275-8828
Email: lynn.reiner@rochester.edu

Renninger, William

Associate Professor of Optics

Associate Professor of Physics

Office Location: 214 Wilmot
Telephone: (585) 276-3709
Email: william.renninger@rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Experimental Nonlinear Optics

Rolland, Jannick

Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering

Professor of Optics

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor in the Center for Visual Science

Director, NSF/IUCRC: Center for Freeform Optics

Director, R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering

Office Location: 505 Goergen Hall
Telephone: (585) 752-1013
Email: rolland@optics.rochester.edu
Web Address: Website

Interests: Optical Aberration Theory; Freeform Optics; Metasurfaces; Metaform; Optical System Design; Optical Metrology; Illumination; Instrumentation and System Engineering; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); Optical Coherence Elastography (OCE); Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR); Head-Worn Displays; Heads-up Displays