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Agrawal, Govind P.

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

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Akinyemi, Olayinka

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2018
Advisor(s)
Professor David Mathews

Computational Biology Group

Office Location
3-8809 Medical Center

Alex, Nimmy

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Kevin McFarland
Office Location
Fermilab

Alford, Wynter

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Gabriel Landi
Office Location
324 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Atma Anand

Anand, Atma

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2018
Advisor(s)
Jonathan Carrol-Nellenback

Astrophysics Group

Office Location
453 Bausch and Lomb
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Armstrong, Abigail

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Petros Tzeferacos

Computational Astrophysics Group

Office Location
373 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Arnold, Brennan

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Suxing Hu

High Energy Density Physics Group

Office Location
309 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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Arroyo-Rivera, Edgar Samuel

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2017
Advisor(s)
Professor Robert Boyd

Optics Group

Office Location
Wilmot Building

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Bachmann, Tristan

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Petros Tzeferacos
Office Location
373 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Banerjee, Soham

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Hans Rinderknecht
Zachariah Barfield

Barfield, Zachariah

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2018
Advisor(s)
Professor Dustin Froula

Plasma Physics Group

Office Location
286B Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Segev BenZvi

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

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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

Bezerra Rosal, Alberto

PhD Student

Entry Year
2024
Office Location
304 B&L

Bhatt, Binod

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Chunlei Guo
Office Location
419 Wilmot
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Bhatt Dinesha, Dhanush

PhD Student

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Professor Bob Boyd

Optics Group

Office Location
306 Wilmot
Bigelow, Nicholas P.

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

Billings, Virginia

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Nick Bigelow
Office Location
314 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Blackman, Eric G.

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

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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

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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

Arie Bodek

Bodek, Arie

George E. Pake Professor of Physics

Professor of Physics

Office Location
354 Bausch & Lomb
Telephone
(585) 275-5445
Web Address
Website

Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics

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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

Johnathon Carroll-Nellenback

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

Chakraborty, Abhishek

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Andrew Jordan

Theoretical Quantum Optics Group

Office Location
Offsite

Champion, Elizabeth

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor Machiel Blok

Quantum Information Science Group

Office Location
453A Bausch & Lomb Hall

Chng, Benjamin

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor Pengfei (Frank) Huo

Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Group

Office Location
431 Hutchison Hall

Choi, Gwyneth

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Steven Manly
Office Location
257 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Rip Collins

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

Converse, Marcus

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2018
Advisor(s)
Professor Frank Wolfs

Astroparticle Physics Group

Office Location
203G Bausch and Lomb

Cook, Walter

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Segev BenZvi
Office Location
361 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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Czupryniak, Robert

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Professor Andrew Jordan

theoretical quantum optics Group

Office Location
325 Bausch and Lomb Hall

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D'Souza, Justin

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Shuai Zhang

High Energy Density Physics Theory Group

Office Location
Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Christopher Danly

Danly, Christopher

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2018
Advisor(s)
Professor Riccardo Betti

Plasma and Lasers Group

Office Location
Offsite
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Demina, Regina

Professor of Physics

Office Location
367 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7357
Web Address
Website

Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics; cosmology

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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

Dhami, Lokendra Singh

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
John Nichol
Office Location
B08 Bausch & Lomb Hall

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

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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

Duan, Jiheng

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
John Nichol
Office Location
B08 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Durkee, Dylan

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Prof. Suxing Hu

High Energy Density Physics Theory Group

Office Location
Offsite

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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

Elias, Joel

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor Kevin McFarland

Experimental High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
259 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Ellaboudy, Ammar

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021

Experimental Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Elliott, Amanda

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Dustin Froula
Office Location
4304-11 LLE
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Erez, Irem Nesli

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Professor Pierre Gourdain

Plasma Physics Group

Office Location
471 Bausch and Lomb Hall

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Fiusa, Guilherme

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Gabriel Landi
Office Location
324 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Thomas Foster

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

Ignacio Franco

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

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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
Web Address
Website

Interests: theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics

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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

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Gourab Ghoshal

Ghoshal, Gourab

Professor of Physics

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
464 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7748
Web Address
Website

Interests: Noneqilibrium statistical mechanics, complex systems and network theory

Gomez Ramirez, Sara

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Adam Sefkow
Office Location
4008-10 LLE
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Goshadze, Rati

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Valentin Karasev

Theoretical Plasma/Laser Physics Group

Office Location
Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
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Griswold, Spencer

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2017
Advisor(s)
Professor Segev BenZvi

Astroparticle Physics Group

Office Location
458 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Chunlei Guo

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

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haber elisha

Haber, Elisha

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2017
Advisor(s)
Professor Nick Bigelow

Experimental Quantum Optics Group

Office Location
170 Bausch and Lomb Hall
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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

Hamilton, Danielle

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Riccardo Betti/Varchas Gopalaswamy
Office Location
1414B LLE

Hannan, Nafiz

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Timothy Baran

Biological Physics Group

Office Location
Med Center

Hare, Honor

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor Aran Garcia-Bellido

Experimental High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
Fermilab

Hegde, Abhay Seetaram

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Gabriel Landi
Office Location
324 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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Herrera Flor, Alan Yuseth

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Regina Demina

High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
CERN
Joshua Hinz

Hinz, Joshua

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2016
Advisor(s)
Valentin Karasev, Sr. Scientist at the LLE

Theoretical Plasma/Laser Physics Group

Office Location
Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Telephone
(585) 275-0339
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Holmes, Kurt

Superintendent C.E.K. Mees Observatory

Office Location
Mees Observatory
Telephone
(585) 374-2433
Telephone
(315) 79-1078
Telephone
(585) 281-9224

Hraki, Jenna

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Pierre Gourdain
Office Location
471 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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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

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Jenick, Jessica

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Nicholas Bigelow
Office Location
314 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Jung, KiYoung

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Chris Marshall
Office Location
352 Bausch & Lomb Hall

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Kaldawi, Thomas

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Riccardo Betti
Office Location
2650 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Sean Kelty

Kelty, Sean

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2016
Advisor(s)
Professor Gourab Ghoshal

Theoretical Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
474 Bausch and Lomb Hall

Kim, Hakhyeon

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Rip Collins
Office Location
4008 LLE

Kish, Ayden

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2018
Advisor(s)
Professor Adam Sefkow

Plasma/Laser Physics Group

Office Location
Hopeman
Peter Knight

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

Kotorashvili, Ketevan

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Eric Blackman

Theoretical Astrophysics Group

Office Location
454 Bausch & Lomb Hall

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Lachat, Mitchell

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor Steven Manly

Experimental High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
Fermilab
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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, Zihao

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Kevin McFarland
Office Location
260 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Baowei Liu

Liu, Baowei

Computational Scientist of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Office Location
455A Bausch & Lomb Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-4105

Luniewski, Stephen

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Alice Quillen
Office Location
427 Bausch & Lomb Hall

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Steve Manly

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

Markland, Hunter

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Dustin Froula
Office Location
2224 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Markowski, Jake

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
John Nichol
Office Location
B09 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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Markwick, Bobbie

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Adam Frank

Astrophysics Group

Office Location
453 Bausch and Lomb Hall

McCarthy, Morgan Elise

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Professor Frank Wolfs

Astroparticle Physics Group

Office Location
261 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Robert McCrory

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

Kevin McFarland

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
Web Address
Website

Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics

McMillen, Kyle

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Dustin Froula and Jessica Shaw

Relativistic Laser-Plasma Experiments Group

Office Location
290B Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

McMullan, Mary

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Petros Tzeferacos
Office Location
373 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Meador-Woodruff, Aidan

PhD Student

Entry Year
2024
Office Location
476 B&L

Medahinne Gedara, Chandema Mihirangi Kumari

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Professor Machiel Blok

Quantum Information Science Group

Office Location
459 Bausch and Lomb Hall

Mei, Yuhan

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Jaime Cardenas

Theoretical Quantum Optics Group

Office Location
203 Wilmot

Mohapatra, Ananya

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor Petros Tzeferacos

Computational Astrophysics Group

Office Location
373 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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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

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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

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Nguyen, Quang

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2017
Advisor(s)
Professor Nick Vamivakas

Experimental Quantum Optics and Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
103 Wilmot Annex
Telephone
(585) 275-4001

Nguyen, Long Duc

PhD Student

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Professor Bob Boyd

Optics Group

Office Location
307 Wilmot
John Nichol

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

Nichols, Katarina

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Suxing Hu

High Energy Density Physics Group

Office Location
200S Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

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Ollis, Trevor

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Nick Vamivakas

Experimental Quantum Optics and Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
104 Wilmot Annex
Lynne Orr

Orr, Lynne H.

C. E. Kenneth Mees Professor Emerita

Faculty Senior Associate

Professor Emerita of Physics

Office Location
451 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8528

Interests: theoretical elementary-particle physics; financial physics

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Pacheco Vazquez, Octavio

PhD Student

Entry Year
2024
Office Location
304 B&L
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Pantell, Hadley

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2018
Advisor(s)
Professors Rip Collins and Ryan Rygg

High Energy Density Physics Group

Office Location
200C Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Paramanick, Shubhonkar

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Eric G. Blackman

Astrophysics Group

Office Location
454 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Web Address
Website
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Parker, Rayleigh

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Professor Machiel Blok

Quantum Information Science Group

Office Location
459 Bausch and Lomb Hall

Parmar, Nukulsinh

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor Aran Garcia-Bellido

Experimental High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
CERN

Poudyal, Bibandhan

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Gourab Ghoshal

Theoretical Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
474 Bausch & Lomb Hall

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Qie, Yufan

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Frank Wolfs

Astroparticle Physics Group

Office Location
203G Bausch & Lomb Hall
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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

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Rahman, Reshad

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Antonino Di Piazza
Office Location
303 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Sarada Rajeev

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

Ravi, Nitya

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Segev BenZvi
Office Location
427 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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Ren, Chuang

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Professor of Physics

Office Location
214 Hopeman
Telephone
(585) 275-2048

Interests: theoretical plasma physics

Rincon, Hernan

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Segev BenZvi

Astroparticle Physics/Cosmology Group

Office Location
476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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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

Ringhand, Kristin

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Dan Watson

Astrophysics Group

Office Location
426 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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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

Adam Rubinstein

Rubinstein, Adam

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2018
Advisor(s)
Professor Dan Watson

Astrophysics Group

Office Location
427 Bausch and Lomb
Ryan Rygg

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

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Sam, Akza

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Dominique Segura-Cox
Office Location
361 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Schunke, Austin

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Rip Collins
Office Location
4008-13 LLE

Schwartz, Andrew

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Gabriel Landi
Office Location
324 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Adam Sefkow

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

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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

Signor, Matthew

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor Rip Collins

High Energy Density Physics Group

Office Location
Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Singh, Alok

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Andrew Jordan

Theoretical Quantum Optics Group

Office Location
Offsite

Smedley, Jack

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Chris Marshall

Experimental High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
Fermilab

Smith, Ethan

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Rip Collins

High Energy Density Physics Group

Office Location
309 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Roman Sobolewski

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
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Sprowal, Zaire

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2017
Advisor(s)
Professors Rip Collins and Ryan Rygg

High Energy Density Physics Group

Office Location
200C Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Telephone
(585) 275-0339

Stromswold, Rachel

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor Nicholas Bigelow
Office Location
314 Bausch and Lomb Hall
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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

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Sultana, Mehreen

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2015
Advisor(s)
Kevin McFarland

High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
Fermilab

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Tan, Chin Lung (Keane)

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2017
Advisor(s)
Professor Aran Garcia-Bellido

Experimental High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
Fermilab
Telephone
(585) 275-0339
John Tarduno

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

Rhys Taus

Taus, Rhys

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2015
Advisor(s)
Professor Arie Bodek

Experimental High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
CERN
Telephone
+41 (227) 674-490
Web Address
Website

Thapa Magar, Suraj

PhD Student

Entry Year
2021
Advisor(s)
Professor John Nichol

Experimental Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
B09 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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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

Tiwari, Shivanshi

PhD Student

Entry Year
2023
Advisor(s)
Chris Marshall
Office Location
352 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Torres Leal, Fernando

PhD Student

Entry Year
2024
Office Location
304 B&L
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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

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Utaegbulam, Hilary

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2023
Office Location
FermiLab
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Uzun, Yavuz

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Krishnan Padmanabhan

Computational Biology Group

Office Location
G.9816 URMC

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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

VanDusen-Gross, Matthew

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Dustin Froula

Vizarreta, Renzo

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Chris Marshall
Office Location
Fermilab
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Vuong, Quynh Huong

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Chris Marshall

Experimental High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
257 Bausch & Lomb Hall

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Wadhurawa Mudiyanselage, Hiranya Pasan Vindana

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2019
Advisor(s)
Prof. Gilbert Collins
Prof. Ryan Rygg

Experimental Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
123 Hopeman

Walelign, Habitamu

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor John Nichol

Experimental Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
B08 Bausch and Lomb Hall

Wang, Zihao

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Machiel Blok

Quantum Information Science Group

Office Location
453A Bausch & Lomb Hall
Dan Watson

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

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Watson, Carla (Clay)

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PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2017
Advisor(s)
Professor Stephen Wu

Experimental Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
609 Computer Science Building
Telephone
(585) 275-4001
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Weight, Braden

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Pengfei “Frank” Huo

Non-adiabatic Quantum Evolution of Many-Body Systems and Light-Matter Interactions Group

Office Location
430 Hutchison Hall
Web Address
Website

Wolfs, Jean

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Chris Marshall

Experimental High Energy Physics Group

Office Location
260 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Web Address
Website
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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

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Xu, Yang

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Robert Boyd

Optics Group

Office Location
306 Wilmot

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Yanik, Kagan

PhD Student

Entry Year
2022
Advisor(s)
Andrew Jordan
Office Location
Offsite

Ye, Feiyang

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor John Nichol

Experimental Condensed Matter Group

Office Location
B08 Bausch & Lomb Hall

Yeltokov, Alikhan

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Dan Bergstralh

Biological Physics Group

Office Location
Offsite

Young, James

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2018
Advisor(s)
Professor Pierre Gourdain

Plasma physics Group

Office Location
471 Bausch and Lomb
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Yu, Yu-Heng

PhD Student

Entry Year
2020
Advisor(s)
Professor Regina Demina

Experimental High Energy Physics/Cosmology Group

Office Location
CERN

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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

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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

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Zou, Yangyuxin (Amy)

PhD Candidate

Entry Year
2017
Advisor(s)
Petros Tzeferacos

Astrophysics Group

Office Location
373 Bausch and Lomb Hall