Dec 26, 2024  
2024 - 2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024 - 2025 Graduate Catalog

Physics Faculty


Chair

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

Graduate Director

Justin R. Stevens Wilson & Martha Claiborne Stephens Associate Professor (Ph.D., Indiana).

Professors

David S. Armstrong Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., British Columbia) (on leave 2024-2025), Todd D. Averett (Ph.D., Virginia), Christopher D. Carone Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (Ph.D., Harvard), Joshua Erlich (Ph.D., MIT), Michael A. Kordosky (Ph.D., Texas - Austin) Dennis M. Manos CSX Professor of Physics and Applied Science (Ph.D., Ohio State), Eugeniy Mikhailov (Ph.D., Texas A&M), Irina Novikova (Ph.D., Texas A&M), Konstantinos N. Orginos (Ph.D., Brown) (on leave 2024-2025), M. Mumtaz Qazilbash (Ph.D., Maryland - College Park), Jianwei Qiu Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., Columbia), Enrico Rossi (Ph.D., Texas - Austin), 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 Margaret Hamilton Associate Professor of Physics (D.Phil., Oxford), and Saskia Mordijck Class of 1955 Associate Professor of Physics (Ph.D., University of California - San Diego).

Assistant Professors

Gregory S. Bentsen (Ph.D., Stanford), Ebubechukwu O. Ilo-Okeke (Ph.D., Worcester), Andrew W. Jackura (Ph.D., Indiana), and David J. Stark (Ph.D., Texas - Austin).

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), Keith A. Griffioen (Ph.D., Stanford), Franz L. Gross (Ph.D., Princeton), R. Alejandra Lukaszew (Ph.D., Wayne State), Robert D. McKeown Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., Princeton), 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).