People

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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

gpa@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4846
515 Goergen Hall

Website

Interests: Fiber Optics; Lasers; Optical Communications

Askari, Hesam

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

askari@rochester.edu
223 Hopeman

Website

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

B

Bhattacharya, Mishkat

Assistant Professor of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology

mxbsps@rit.edu | (585) 475-6151
CAR 3144

Website

Interests: Atomic physics; Nanomechanics; Superconductivity

Bigelow, Nicholas P.

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

nbig@pas.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8549
312 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Website

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

Blok, Machiel

Assistant Professor of Physics

machielblok@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5389
420 Bausch and Lomb

Website

Interests: quantum information processing with superconducting circuits

Boyd, Robert

Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics

boyd@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2329
308 Wilmot Building

Website

Interests: Nonlinear Optics

C

Cardenas, Jaime

Associate Professor of Optics

jaime.cardenas@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7320
226 Wilmot

Website

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

Collins, Gilbert 'Rip'

Tracy Hyde Harris Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics
LLE Senior Scientist
LLE Associate Director for Academics, Science and Technology

gcollins@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0255
307 Hopeman

Website

Interests: high energy density physics

D

Dery, Hanan

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

hanan.dery@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3870
410 Computer Studies Building

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

Website

Interests: High Temperature superconductivity; Quantum phase transitions; Dynamic response of solids; Novel material synthesis; High pressure NV optical magnetometry; High energy density physics

E

Eberly, Joseph H.

Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Professor of Optics

eberly@pas.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4576
321 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Website

Interests: theoretical atomic; molecular and optical physics

F

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

Website

Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

H

Huo, Pengfei

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Optics

huo@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7793
456 Hutchison Hall

Website

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

J

Jordan, Andrew N.

Professor of Physics (Research)

jordan@pas.rochester.edu

Website

Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics

K

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

Website

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

L

Lin, Qiang

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Optics

qiang.lin@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3799
721 Computer Studies Building

Website

Interests: Nanophotonic Devices; Physics and Applications

Lukishova, Svetlana G.

Group Leader and Adjunct Professor

lukishov@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 276-5283
303 Wilmot Building

Website

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

N

Nichol, John M.

Associate Professor of Physics

john.nichol@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4396
158 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Website

Interests: experimental quantum information processing and condensed-matter physics

P

Pawlicki, Thaddeus E.

Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)

pawlicki@cs.rochester.edu
2101 Wegmans Hall

Website

Interests: Undergraduate eduction; Robotics; Computer vision; Artificial intelligence

Pickel, Andrea

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

apickel@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9142
219 Hopeman

Website

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

Q

Quillen, Alice C.

Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Senior Scientist

aquillen@pas.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9625
424 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Website

Interests: theoretical astrophysics and observational astronomy

R

Renninger, William

Associate Professor of Optics
Associate Professor of Physics

william.renninger@rochester.edu | (585) 276-3709
214 Wilmot

Website

Interests: Experimental Nonlinear Optics

S

Singh, Sobhit

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

s.singh@rochester.edu

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