Mar 07, 2026  
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025 - 2026 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), Todd D. Averett (Ph.D., Virginia), Christopher D. Carone Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (Ph.D., Harvard), Jozef J. Dudek Margaret Hamilton Professor of Physics (D.Phil., Oxford), 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) (on leave 2025-2026), Irina Novikova (Ph.D., Texas A&M) (on leave 2025-2026), Konstantinos N. Orginos Calkins-Ritter Professor of Physics (Ph.D., Brown), M. Mumtaz Qazilbash (Ph.D., Maryland - College Park), Jianwei Qiu Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., Columbia), Enrico Rossi (Ph.D., Texas - Austin), and Patricia L. Vahle (Ph.D., Texas - Austin). 

Associate Professors

Seth A. M. Aubin (Ph.D., SUNY - Stony Brook), 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 Ilo-Okeke (Ph.D., Worcester), Andrew W. Jackura (Ph.D., Indiana), Meike Kuessner (Ph.D., Bochum), 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), Christopher Monahan (Ph.D., Cambridge), 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), 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), Marc T. Sher (Ph.D., Colorado), Eugene R. Tracy Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., Maryland), George M. Vahala (Ph.D., Iowa), Hans C. von Baeyer Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., Vanderbilt), and J. Dirk Walecka Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professor (Ph.D., MIT).