May 14, 2024  
2017 - 2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017 - 2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Physics Faculty


Chair

Christopher D. Carone Professor (Ph.D., Harvard).

Graduate Director

Jeffrey K. Nelson Professor (Ph.D., Minnesota).

Professors

David S. Armstrong (Ph.D., British Columbia) (on leave 2017-2018), Todd D. Averett (Ph.D., Virginia), Carl E. Carlson Class of 1962 Professor (Ph.D., Columbia) (on leave 2017-2018), William E. Cooke (Ph.D., MIT), John B. Delos (Ph.D., MIT) (on leave Fall 2017), Joshua Erlich (Ph.D., MIT) (on leave Spring 2018), Keith A. Griffioen (Ph.D., Stanford), Gina L. Hoatson (Ph.D., East Anglia), Henry Krakauer (Ph.D., Brandeis), R. Alejandra Lukaszew Virginia Microelectronics Consortium Distinguished Professor of Physics (Ph.D., Wayne State) (on leave 2017-2018), Dennis M. Manos CSX Professor of Applied Science (Ph.D., Ohio State), Robert D. McKeown Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., Princeton), Konstantinos N. Orginos Orginos (Ph.D., Brown) (on leave 2017-2018), Jianwei Qiu Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., Columbia), Marc T. Sher (Ph.D., Colorado) (on leave Spring 2018), Eugene R. Tracy Chancellor Professor and Alfred Ritter Term Professor, and Fellow with the Center for the Liberal Art (Ph.D., Maryland), George M. Vahala (Ph.D., Iowa), and Shiwei Zhang (Ph.D., Cornell).

Associate Professors

Seth A. M. Aubin (Ph.D., SUNY - Stony Brook), Michael A. Kordosky (Ph.D., Texas - Austin),  Irina Novikova (Ph.D., Texas A&M), Enrico Rossi (Ph.D., Texas - Austin), M. Mumtaz Qazilbash (Ph.D., Maryland - College Park), and Patricia L. Vahle Mansfield Associate Professor (Ph.D., Texas - Austin).

Assistant Professors

Wouter Deconinck (Ph.D., Michigan), Jozef J. Dudek (D.Phil., Oxford), Eugeniy Mikhailov (Ph.D., Texas A&M), Phiala E. Shanahan (Ph.D., Adelaide), and Justin R. Stevens (Ph.D., Indiana).

Adjunct Professors

Peter E. Bosted (Ph.D., MIT), Warren Buck (Ph.D., William & Mary), Wally Melnitchouk (Ph.D., Adelaide), David Richards (Ph.D., Cambridge), Malathy Devi Venkataraman (Ph.D., Kerala), Andre Walker-Loud (Ph.D., Washington), and Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (Ph.D., Novosibirsk).

Director of Teaching Labs

A. Dayle Hancock (Ph.D., Houston).

Professors Emeriti

Roy L. Champion Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., Florida), Morton Eckhause (Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon), Franz L. Gross (Ph.D., Princeton), William J. Kossler (Ph.D., Princeton), John L. McKnight (Ph.D., Yale), Charles F. Perdrisat (D.Sc. ETCH, Zurich), Kenneth G. Petzinger (Ph.D., Pennsylvania), Edward A. Remler (Ph.D., North Carolina), Harlan E. Schone (Ph.D., California - Berkeley), Hans C. von Baeyer Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., Vanderbilt), J. Dirk Walecka Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., MIT), and Robert E. Welsh Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State).