Associated Faculty
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Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 404 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7817
- niaz@rochester.edu
- Web Address
Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 406 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7170
- Web Address
Interests: Turbulence; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Compressible Flows; Magnetohydrodynamics; Hydrodynamic Instabilities
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 223 Hopeman
- askari@rochester.edu
- Web Address
Interests: Mechanics of Solids and soft matter; Granular systems; Stocahstic response ; Manufacturing techniques
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Bahukutumbi, Radha P.
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1453
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
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Distinguished Scientist
- Office Location
- 417 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0537
- Web Address
Interests: theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics
Boehly, Thomas
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0254
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 212 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4082
- Web Address
Interests: Fracture Mechanics Applied to Grinding; Polishing, Adhesion and Slitting; Deformation Kinetics; Thermodynamic Energy Balances in Linear Systems
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Campbell, Mike
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2732
Tracy Hyde Harris Professor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Physics
Associate Director of Science, Technology and ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Director, Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures (CMAP)
NSF Physics Frontier Center
- Office Location
- 307 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0255
Interests: Laboratory Astrophysics; High Pressure/High Energy Density Physics; Condensed Matter; Planetary Science; Plasma Physics ; Thermonuclear Fusion
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Davies, Jonathan
Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 220 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4112
- rdias@rochester.edu
- Web Address
Interests: 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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Epstein, Reuben
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5405
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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
Interests: theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics
LLE Distinguished Scientist
LLE Director PULSE Division
Professor of Physics (Research)
- Office Location
- 288 Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3212
- Web Address
Interests: experimental plasma physics
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Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5877
Interests: Computational physics; Fluid mechanics; Partial differential equations with applications in fluid mechanics; Hydrodynamic instabilities; Plasma physics
Associate Professor of Physics
LLE Staff Scientist
- Office Location
- 456 Bausch and Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3089
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3060
- Web Address
Interests: experimental plasma physics
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Hu, Suxing
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3794
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 218 Hopeman
- Web Address
Interests: Fluid dynamics of the brain’s waste removal system; Mixing in the inner ear; Liquid metal batteries and grid-scale energy storage; Mixing in metals casting; Coherent structures in reactive mixing
Knauer, James
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2074
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Materials Science
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Materials Science Graduate Recruiting Committee
- Office Location
- 216 Hopeman
Interests: Micromechanics; Mechanics & Materials Issues in Optics Manufacturing; Defect Generation During Crystal Growth
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1440
Interests: Theoretical plasma physics; Inertial confinement fusion; High-energy-density physics
Myatt, Jason
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5772
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Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 224D Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6617
- Web Address
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
Nilson, Philip
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9527
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- 424 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9625
- Web Address
Interests: theoretical astrophysics and observational astronomy
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Physics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 203A Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2048
Interests: Inertial confinement fusion; Plasma astrophysics; High performance computing
Rygg, J. Ryan
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Assistant Professor of Research, Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 307 Hopeman Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1549
Interests: high-energy-density physics; shock waves; inertial confinement fusion
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Sangster, Craig
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2350
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 466 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8263
- Web Address
Interests: experimental nuclear physics
Sefkow, Adam
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3541
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 206 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2730
- Web Address
Interests: Experimental fluid mechanics; biological fluid systems; fluid-structure interactions; vortex dynamics; HED hydrodynamics and transport
Shaw, Jessica
Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5174
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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
Interests: experimental geodynamics; planetary science and astrophysics
Theobald, Wolfgang
Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2628
Associate Professor
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7182
Interests: Experimental geochemistry; early Earth - including understanding the origin(s) of the oldest terrestrial rocks and minerals; planetary geology; astrobiology; lunar geochemistry; "water" in nominally anhydrous minerals; isotope geochemistry and geochronology of accessory minerals; redox chemistry of magmas, fluids, and minerals - including the application of synchrotron-based techniques
Turnbull, David
Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 250 East River Road
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4926
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- 418 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8576
- Web Address
Interests: astrophysics; observational astronomy