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Abdolrahim, Niaz

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office Location
215 Hopeman
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Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations

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Aluie, Hussein

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor, Department of Mathematics

Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office Location
406 Hopeman
Telephone
(585) 276-7170
Web Address
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Interests: Turbulence; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Compressible Flows; Magnetohydrodynamics; Hydrodynamic Instabilities

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Askari, Hesam

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Office Location
223 Hopeman
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Interests: Mechanics of Solids and soft matter; Granular systems; Stocahstic response ; Manufacturing techniques

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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

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Burns, Stephen J.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Emeritus, Materials Science

Office Location
212 Hopeman
Telephone
(585) 275-4082
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Interests: Fracture Mechanics Applied to Grinding; Polishing, Adhesion and Slitting; Deformation Kinetics; Thermodynamic Energy Balances in Linear Systems

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Gilbert 'Rip' Collins

Collins, Gilbert 'Rip'

Tracy Hyde Harris Professor

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Professor of Physics

Associate Director of Science, Technology and Academics, 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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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
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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
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Interests: experimental plasma physics

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Valeri Goncharov

Goncharov, Valeri

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

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Douglas H. Kelley

Kelley, Douglas H.

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office Location
218 Hopeman
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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

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John Lambropoulos

Lambropoulos, John

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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Nakajima, Miki

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Office Location
224D Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-6617
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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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Chuang Ren

Ren, Chuang

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

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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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Shang, Jessica

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office Location
206 Hopeman
Telephone
(585) 275-2730
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Interests: Experimental fluid mechanics; biological fluid systems; fluid-structure interactions; vortex dynamics; HED hydrodynamics and transport

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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
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Interests: experimental geodynamics; planetary science and astrophysics

Dustin Trail

Trail, Dustin

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

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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
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Interests: astrophysics; observational astronomy