Apr 10, 2025  
2018 - 2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018 - 2019 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), Todd D. Averett (Ph.D., Virginia), Carl E. Carlson Class of 1962 Professor (Ph.D., Columbia), William E. Cooke (Ph.D., MIT), Joshua Erlich (Ph.D., MIT), Keith A. Griffioen (Ph.D., Stanford) (on leave 2018-2019), Gina L. Hoatson (Ph.D., East Anglia), Michael A. Kordosky (Ph.D., Texas - Austin), Henry Krakauer (Ph.D., Brandeis), R. Alejandra Lukaszew Virginia Microelectronics Consortium Distinguished Professor of Physics (Ph.D., Wayne State) (on leave 2018-2019), Dennis M. Manos CSX Professor of Applied Science (Ph.D., Ohio State), Robert D. McKeown Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., Princeton), Irina Novikova (Ph.D., Texas A&M), Konstantinos N. Orginos Orginos (Ph.D., Brown), Jianwei Qiu Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., Columbia), Marc T. Sher (Ph.D., Colorado), Eugene R. Tracy Chancellor Professor and Alfred Ritter Term Professor, and Fellow with the Center for the Liberal Art (Ph.D., Maryland) (on leave 2018-2019), George M. Vahala (Ph.D., Iowa), Patricia L. Vahle Mansfield Professor (Ph.D., Texas - Austin), and Shiwei Zhang (Ph.D., Cornell) (on leave 2018-2019).

Associate Professors

Seth A. M. Aubin (Ph.D., SUNY - Stony Brook), Eugeniy Mikhailov (Ph.D., Texas A&M) (on leave 2018-2019), M. Mumtaz Qazilbash (Ph.D., Maryland - College Park), and Enrico Rossi (Ph.D., Texas - Austin).

Assistant Professors

Wouter Deconinck (Ph.D., Michigan), Jozef J. Dudek (D.Phil., Oxford), and Justin R. Stevens (Ph.D., Indiana).

Adjunct Professors

Peter E. Bosted (Ph.D., MIT), Warren Buck (Ph.D., William & Mary), John B. Delos (Ph.D., MIT), 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

Hani Dulli (Ph.D., Tennessee).

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. ETH, 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).