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Govind P. Agrawal
Dr. James C. Wyant Professor of Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics

Office: Goergen Hall 515
Phone: (585) 275-4846
Email: gpa@optics.rochester.edu
  • Fiber Optics
  • Lasers
  • Optical Communications
Miguel A. Alonso
Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Office: Wilmot Building 213
Phone: (585) 275-7227
Email: alonso@optics.rochester.edu
  • Mathematical Models of Wave Propagation
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology
Office: 3144 CAR
Phone: (585) 475-6151
Email: mxbsps@rit.edu
  • Atomic physics
  • Nanomechanics
  • Superconductivity
Bigelow, Nicholas P.
Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Physics
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Professor of Optics

Office: Bausch & Lomb Hall 312
Phone: (585) 275-8549
Email: nbig@pas.rochester.edu
  • Quantum physics
  • Quantum optics
  • Experimental atomic
  • Molecular and optical physics
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Assistant Professor of Physics
Office: Bausch and Lomb 420
Phone: (585) 275-5389
Email: machielblok@rochester.edu
  • quantum information processing with superconducting circuits
Robert Boyd
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics

Office: Wilmot Building 308
Phone: (585) 275-2329
Email: boyd@optics.rochester.edu
  • Nonlinear Optics
Jaime Cardenas
Associate Professor of Optics
Office: Wilmot 226
Phone: (585) 275-7320
Email: jaime.cardenas@rochester.edu
  • Nanophotonics
  • Integrated Photonics
  • Biophotonics
  • Lasers
  • Nonlinear Photonics
Gilbert 'Rip' Collins
Tracy Hyde Harris Professor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Physics

Office: Hopeman 307
Phone: (585) 275-0255
Email: gcollins@lle.rochester.edu
  • Laboratory Astrophysics
  • High Pressure/High Energy Density Physics
  • Condensed Matter
  • Planetary Science
  • Plasma Physics
  • Thermonuclear Fusion
Hanan Dery
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: Computer Studies Building 410
Phone: (585) 275-3870
Email: hanan.dery@rochester.edu
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Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office: Hopeman 220
Phone: (585) 276-4112
Email: rdias@rochester.edu
  • High Temperature superconductivity
  • Quantum phase transitions
  • Dynamic response of solids
  • Novel material synthesis
  • High pressure NV optical magnetometry
  • High energy density physics
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Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Professor of Optics

Office: Bausch & Lomb Hall 321
Phone: (585) 275-4576
Email: eberly@pas.rochester.edu
  • theoretical atomic
  • molecular and optical physics
James R. Fienup
Robert E. Hopkins Professor of Optics
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Optics
Professor in the Center for Visual Science

Office: Wilmot Building 410
Phone: (585) 275-8009
Email: fienup@optics.rochester.edu
  • Phase retrieval
  • Wavefront Sensing
  • Image reconstruction and restoration
  • Unconventional imaging
  • Digital holography
  • Imaging with sparse apertures
  • Fourier optics
  • Synthetic-aperture radar
Ignacio Franco
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Office: Hutchison Hall 419
Phone: (585) 275-8209
Email: franco@chem.rochester.edu
  • Laser control of electronic properties and dynamics
  • Electronic decoherence in molecules
  • Theory and simulation of single-molecule pulling processes
  • Novel spectroscopies and control in single-molecule junctions
Chunlei Guo
Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Office: Wilmot Building 419
Phone: (585) 275-2134
Email: guo@optics.rochester.edu
  • Laser-Matter Interactions
  • Ultrafast Phenomena
  • Surface Functionalization
  • Atomic & Molecular Physics
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Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Optics

Office: Hutchison Hall 456
Phone: (585) 276-7793
Email: huo@chem.rochester.edu
  • Theoretical Chemistry
  • Quantum Dynamics
  • Quantum Optics
  • Cavity QED
  • Light-Matter Interactions
  • Polariton Chemistry
Andrew Jordan
Professor of Physics (Research)
Email: jordan@pas.rochester.edu
  • theoretical condensed-matter physics
Qiang Lin
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Optics

Office: Computer Studies Building 721
Phone: (585) 275-3799
Email: qiang.lin@rochester.edu
  • Nanophotonic Devices
  • Physics and Applications
Svetlana G. Lukishova
Group Leader and Adjunct Professor
Office: Wilmot Building 303
Phone: (585) 276-5283
Email: lukishov@optics.rochester.edu
  • Quantum Nanophotonics
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Quantum and Nano-Optics Teaching Experiments
  • History of Optics and Photonics
John Nichol
Associate Professor of Physics
Office: Bausch & Lomb Hall 158
Phone: (585) 275-4396
Email: john.nichol@rochester.edu
  • experimental quantum information processing and condensed-matter physics
Thaddeus E. Pawlicki
Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
Office: Wegmans Hall 2101
Phone: (585) 275-4198
Email: pawlicki@cs.rochester.edu
  • Undergraduate eduction
  • Robotics
  • Computer vision
  • Artificial intelligence
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Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office: Hopeman 219
Phone: (585) 275-9142
Email: apickel@ur.rochester.edu
  • Nanoscale heat transfer
  • luminescence nanothermometry
  • single-nanoparticle imaging and spectroscopy
  • high-temperature thermal metrology
  • electrothermal measurements
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Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email: s.singh@rochester.edu
  • Novel quantum materials (bulk and 2D)
  • Theoretical condensed matter physics
  • Density-functional theory
  • Polar metals
  • Ferroelectrics
  • Magnetism
  • Superconductivity
  • Topological phases of quantum matter
Carlos R. Stroud, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Optics
Professor Emeritus of Physics

Office: Wilmot Building 312
Phone: (585) 275-2598
Email: stroud@optics.rochester.edu
  • Quantum Optics
Nick Vamivakas
Professor of Quantum Optics & Quantum Physics
Office: Wilmot Annex 101
Phone: (585) 275-2089
Email: nick.vamivakas@rochester.edu
  • Quantum Optics
  • Quantum Physics
Xi-Cheng Zhang
M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics

Office: Goergen Building 415
Phone: (585) 275-0333
Email: Xi-Cheng.Zhang@rochester.edu
  • Ultrafast Photonics
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Laser Physics
  • TeraHertz Waves