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Agrawal, Govind P.
James C. Wyant Professor of Optics
James C. Wyant Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
LLE Distinguished Scientist
- Office Location
- 515 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4846
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical optical physics
B
BenZvi, Segev Y.
Associate Professor of Physics
Director of Graduate Studies
- Office Location
- 405 Bausch & Lomb
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7172
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental astroparticle physics
Bergstralh, Dan T.
Assistant Professor (Research)
- Office Location
- Offsite
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cell biology and experimental biological physics
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
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
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Quantum physics; Quantum optics; Experimental atomic; Molecular and optical physics
Blackman, Eric G.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Distinguished Scientist
- Office Location
- 417 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0537
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics
Blok, Machiel
Assistant Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 420 Bausch and Lomb
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5389
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: quantum information processing with superconducting circuits
Bocko, Mark F.
Professor of Physics
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)
- Office Location
- 518 Computer Science Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4879
Interests: experimental condensed-matter physics
Bodek, Arie
George E. Pake Professor of Physics
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 354 Bausch & Lomb
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5445
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics
Boyd, Robert
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 308 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2329
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nonlinear Optics
C
Cardenas, Jaime
Associate Professor of Optics
Assistant Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 226 Wilmot Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7320
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: nanophotonics, integrated photonics, biophotonics, lasers, nonlinear photonics
Carroll-Nellenback, Jonathan
CIRC Computational Scientist
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 455A Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- ((585) ) 275-8557
Interests: Formation and evolution of molecular clouds and cores
Cline, Douglas
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Office Location
- 203D Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4934
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental nuclear physics
Collins, Gilbert 'Rip'
Tracy Hyde Harris Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Physics
LLE Senior Scientist
LLE Associate Director for Academics, Science and Technology
- Office Location
- 307 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0255
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: high energy density physics
D
Das, Ashok
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical elementary-particle physics
Demina, Regina
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 367 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7357
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics
Dery, Hanan
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 411 Computer Science Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3870
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics
Di Piazza, Antonino
Professor of Physics
Distinguished Scientist, LLE
- Office Location
- 356 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4380
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Quantum electrodynamics in the presence of strong background electromagnetic; Properties of the quantum vacuum; Classical and quantum radiation reaction; Laser-matter interaction at high laser intensities; Quantum electrodynamics at finite temperature; Quantum electrodynamics in curved spacetimes
Douglass, Kelly A.
Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy (Instructional)
Director C.E.K. Mees Observatory
Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Office Location
- 425 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5549
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: observational extragalactic astronomy
E
Eberly, Joseph H.
Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 321 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2484
Interests: theoretical atomic; molecular and optical physics
F
Forrest, William J.
Professor of Astronomy (Research)
- Office Location
- 419 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4343
Interests: astrophysics; observational astronomy
Foster, Thomas H.
Professor of Imaging Sciences, Emeritus
Professor Physics
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 3-5333 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1347
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental biological physics
Franco, Ignacio
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow
- Office Location
- 454 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8209
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics
Frank, Adam
Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Distinguished Scientist
- Office Location
- 417A Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1717
- afrank27@gmail.com
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics
Froula, Dustin
LLE Distinguished Scientist
LLE Director PULSE Division
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Office Location
- 288 Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3212
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental plasma physics
G
Garcia-Bellido, Aran
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 406 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3422
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics
Ghoshal, Gourab
Professor of Physics
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 464 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7748
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics and data science
Gourdain, Pierre-Alexandre
Associate Professor of Physics
LLE Staff Scientist
- Office Location
- 456 Bausch and Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3089
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3060
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental plasma physics
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
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Laser-Matter Interactions; Ultrafast Phenomena; Surface Functionalization; Atomic & Molecular Physics
H
Haefner, Ralf
Associate Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 313 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7453
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: computational neuroscience
Hagen, Carl R.
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Interests: theoretical elementary-particle physics
Harris, Deborah
Visiting Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- MS 309 Fermilab
- Telephone
- (630) 840-4545
- deborahh@yorku.ca
Hu, Suxing
Distinguished Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Group Leader for HEDP-Theory Group (LLE)
Professor of Physics (Research)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Research)
- Office Location
- 210 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3794
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical/Computational High-Energy-Density Physics; Inertial Confinement Fusion; Warm-/Hot-Dense Matter; Quantum Many-Body Physics; Quantum Computing; Intense Laser-Matter Interactions; Ultrafast Dynamics; Attosecond Physics; Computational Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
J
Jordan, Andrew N.
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics
K
Knight, Peter
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Office Location
- Imperial College London
- Telephone
- +44 (207) 594-7727
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical atomic; molecular and optical physics
Knox, Robert S.
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical biological physics
L
Landi, Gabriel
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 317 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2418
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theory of open quantum systems. Quantum stochastic processes. Quantum thermodynamics. Quantum information theory. Quantum metrology.
M
Manly, Steven L.
Professor of Physics
Chair, Physics and Astronomy Department
- Office Location
- 206 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4344
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics
Marshall, Christopher
Assistant Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 310 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0538
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: High Energy Physics
McCrory, Robert L.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics, Emeritus
- Office Location
- 343 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4973
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical plasma physics and laser physics
McFarland, Kevin S.
Dr. Steven Chu Professor in Physics
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Vice Provost Faculty Affairs
- Office Location
- 416 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7076
- kevin@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics
Milonni, Peter W.
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4344
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical atomic; molecular and optical physics
Murray, Lee
Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 479 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2077
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: climate science; physics and chemistry of Earth's atmosphere
Murthy, Chaitanya
Assistant Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- Bausch & Lomb Hall
Interests: Theoretical condensed-matter physics
N
Nakajima, Miki
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 224D Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6617
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Dynamics of planetary impacts; Evolution of planetary interiors; Planet formation and evolution; Early Earth, Earth-Moon formation; Modeling Enceladus plumes; Origin of the Martian moons; Exomoon formation; Space missions
Nichol, John M.
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 158 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4396
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental quantum information processing and condensed-matter physics
Nyibule, Sheth
Assistant Professor of Physics (Instructional)
- Office Location
- 360 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Interests: Experimental nuclear physics
O
Orr, Lynne H.
C. E. Kenneth Mees Professor
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 451 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8528
Interests: theoretical elementary-particle physics; financial physics
Q
Quillen, Alice C.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- 424 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9625
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical astrophysics and observational astronomy
R
Rajeev, Sarada G.
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Professor of Mathematics
- Office Location
- 351 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4796
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics
Ren, Chuang
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 214 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2048
Interests: theoretical plasma physics
Renninger, William
Associate Professor of Optics
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 214 Wilmot
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3709
- Web Address
- Website
Rinderknecht, Hans
LLE Staff Scientist
Assistant Professor of Physics (Research)
- Office Location
- 272C Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2625
Interests: Experimental plasma physics
Rothberg, Lewis
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 462 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4725
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental condensed-matter physics
Rygg, Ryan
LLE Senior Scientist
Assistant Professor of Physics (Research)
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Research)
APS Fellow
- Office Location
- 307 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 475-1549
Interests: high energy density physics
S
Schroeder, Wolf-Udo
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 466 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8263
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental nuclear physics
Sefkow, Adam
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Physics
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) Senior Scientist
- 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
Segura-Cox, Dominique
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
- Office Location
- 422 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Observational Astronomy & Astrophysics and Star Formation
Shapir, Yonathan
Professor of Physics
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Mathematics
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics
Shaw, Jessica
LLE Staff Scientist
Assistant Professor of Physics (Research)
- Office Location
- 286 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5174
Interests: experimental short-pulse laser-plasma interactions
Slattery, Paul F.
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Emeritus
Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics
Sobolewski, Roman
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 425 Computer Sciences Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1551
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental condensed-matter physics
Spielman, Rick
LLE Senior Scientist
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Office Location
- 218 Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 715-0416
Stroud, Carlos R.
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 312 Wilmot
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2598
Interests: theoretical and experimental atomic; molecular and optical physics
T
Tarduno, John A.
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Distinguished Scientist
Dean for Research in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- Office Location
- 227 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5713
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental geodynamics; planetary science and astrophysics
Teitel, Stephen L.
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 455B Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4039
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics
Thomas, John H.
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences, and Astronomy, Emeritus
- Office Location
- 223 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4083
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical astrophysics
Tzeferacos, Petros
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- 370 Bausch & Lomb
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6751
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: computational astrophysics
V
Vamivakas, Nickolas A.
Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Optical Physics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Dean of Graduate Education and Post-Doctoral Affairs
- Office Location
- 101 Wilmot Annex
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2089
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Quantum Optics; Quantum Physics
Van Horn, Hugh M.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Emeritus
Interests: theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics
W
Watson, Dan M.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- 418 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8576
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: astrophysics; observational astronomy
Wolfs, Frank L. H.
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 203A Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4937
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental astroparticle physics
Wu, Stephen
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 610 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4349
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Experimental condensed-matter physics
Z
Zhang, Xi-Cheng
M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 415 Goergen Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0333
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Ultrafast Photonics; Nonlinear Optics; Laser Physics; TeraHertz Waves
Zhong, Jianhui
Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 2A 215A Medical Annex
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4518
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental biological physics