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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
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fiber Optics; Lasers; Optical Communications
Askari, Hesam
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 223 Hopeman
- askari@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- 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
- Office Location
- CAR 3144
- Telephone
- (585) 475-6151
- mxbsps@rit.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Atomic physics; Nanomechanics; Superconductivity
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
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
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
- Office Location
- 226 Wilmot
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7320
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanophotonics; Integrated Photonics; Biophotonics; Lasers; Nonlinear Photonics
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
Dery, Hanan
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 410 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3870
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
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) 275-4576
Interests: theoretical atomic; molecular and optical physics
F
Franco, Ignacio
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 454 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8209
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
H
Huo, Pengfei
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 456 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7793
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical Chemistry; Quantum Dynamics; Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Light-Matter Interactions; Polariton Chemistry
J
Jordan, Andrew N.
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Web Address
- 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
- Office Location
- 465 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5093
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors; Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials; Quantum optics and nanoscience
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.
Lin, Qiang
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 721 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3799
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanophotonic Devices; Physics and Applications
Lukishova, Svetlana G.
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 303 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5283
Interests: Quantum Nanophotonics; Liquid Crystals; Nonlinear Optics; Quantum and Nano-Optics Teaching Experiments; History of Optics and Photonics
M
Murthy, Chaitanya
Assistant Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- Bausch & Lomb Hall
Interests: Theoretical condensed-matter physics
N
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
P
Pawlicki, Thaddeus E.
Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2101 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Undergraduate eduction; Robotics; Computer vision; Artificial intelligence
Pickel, Andrea
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Materials Science
Assistant Professor, Institute of Optics
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 219 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9142
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanoscale heat transfer; Luminescence nanothermometry; Single-nanoparticle and super-resolution imaging and spectroscopy; High-temperature thermal metrology; Electrothermal measurements
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
Renninger, William
Associate Professor of Optics
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 214 Wilmot
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3709
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Experimental Nonlinear Optics
S
Singh, Sobhit
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Web Address
- 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
Sobolewski, Roman
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Physics
Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 425 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1551
Stroud, Carlos R., Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Optics
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Institute of Optics Historian
- Office Location
- 312 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2598
Interests: Quantum Optics
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
W
Wicks, Gary W.
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 109A Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4867
Interests: Molecular Beam Epitaxy; Semiconductor Optoelectronics
Wu, Stephen
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 610 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3497
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Spintronics; Nanoscale electronics; Novel electronic materials; Quantum materials and devices