Mar 09, 2026  
2023 - 2024 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023 - 2024 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Physics Faculty


Chair

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

Graduate Director

Michael A. Kordosky Professor (Ph.D., Texas - Austin).

Professors

David S. Armstrong Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., British Columbia), Todd D. Averett (Ph.D., Virginia), Christopher D. Carone Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (Ph.D., Harvard), Joshua Erlich (Ph.D., MIT), Keith A. Griffioen (Ph.D., Stanford), Dennis M. Manos CSX Professor of Physics and 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 (Ph.D., Brown), M. Mumtaz Qazilbash (Ph.D., Maryland - College Park) (on leave 2023-2024), Jianwei Qiu Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., Columbia), Enrico Rossi (Ph.D., Texas - Austin) (on leave 2023-2024), Marc T. Sher (Ph.D., Colorado), George M. Vahala (Ph.D., Iowa), and Patricia L. Vahle (Ph.D., Texas - Austin).

Associate Professors

Seth A. M. Aubin (Ph.D., SUNY - Stony Brook), Jozef J. Dudek (D.Phil., Oxford), Eugeniy Mikhailov (Ph.D., Texas A&M), Saskia Mordijck (Ph.D., University of California - San Diego), and Justin R. Stevens (Ph.D., Indiana).

Assistant Professors

Christopher J. Monahan (Ph.D. Cambridge), and David J. Stark (Ph.D., Texas - Austin) (Spring 2024).

Affiliated Research Scholars

D. Chris Benner (Ph.D., Arizona), Peter E. Bosted (Ph.D., MIT), Warren Buck (Ph.D., William & Mary), Hyun Tak Kim (Ph.D., Tsukuba), Donald Lehman (Ph.D., George Washington), Wally Melnitchouk (Ph.D., Adelaide), David Richards (Ph.D., Cambridge), Nobuo Sato (Ph.D., Florida State), Elton Smith (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), Gregory R. Smith (Ph.D., Colorado, Boulder), Malathy Devi Venkataraman (Ph.D., Kerala), and Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (Ph.D., Novosibirsk), and Shiwei Zhang (Ph.D., Cornell).

Teaching Professors

Bjorg Larson (Ph.D., SUNY - Stony Brook), and Ran Yang (Ph.D., William & Mary).

Professors Emeriti

Carl E. Carlson Class of 1962 Professor (Ph.D., Columbia), William E. Cooke (Ph.D., MIT), Franz L. Gross (Ph.D., Princeton), R. Alejandra Lukaszew (Ph.D., Wayne State), Charles F. Perdrisat (D.Sc. ETH, Zurich), Kenneth G. Petzinger (Ph.D., Pennsylvania), Harlan E. Schone (Ph.D., California - Berkeley), Eugene R. Tracy Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., Maryland), 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).