Physics & Astronomy

Faculty

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Faculty Member		Contact	Interests
	Chandrasekhar, Venkat Professor	Tech F125 847-491-3444 email	Mesoscopic systems: hybrid superconductor, ferromagnet and normal metal systems; complex oxides, unconventional superconductivity; low-temperature scanning-force microscopy. Mesoscopic Physics Page
	de Gouvêa, André Associate Professor	Tech F426 847-467-6462 email	Electroweak interactions and physics beyond the standard model, neutrino oscillations and the origin of neutrino masses. de Gouvêa Research Page
	Dutta, Pulak Professor	Tech F121 847-491-5465 email	Nanoscale order in soft materials, surfaces and interfaces, X-ray scattering studies of self-assembled molecular layers. Dutta Research Page
	Ellis, Donald Professor, joint with Chemistry	Tech F411 847-491-3665 email	Numerical calculation of material properties, including composite materials, electroceramics, and bioceramics. Ellis Research Page
	Freeman, Arthur Morrison Professor	Tech F275 847-491-3343 email	First-principles simulations of complex materials, including their structural, electronic, magnetic, optical and mechanical properties.
	Garg, Anupam Professor	Tech F327 847-491-3229 email	Spin tunneling and relaxation in molecular magnets, semiclassical limit for spin, quantum state manipulation.
	Halperin, William John Evans Professor	Tech F117 847-491-3686 email	Low-temperature physics, high-magnetic-field NMR studies of high-Tc super- conductors, fluid transport in porous media. Low-Temperature Page \| NMR Page
	Kalogera, Vicky E. O. Haven Professor of Physics & Astronomy	Dearborn 15 847-491-5669 email	Gravitational waves, X-ray emission from compact binary objects, coalescence of neutron-star binaries. Kalogera Research Page
	Ketterson, John Fayerweather Professor, joint with Electrical Engineering	Tech FG19 847-491-5468 email	Nonlinear optics, excitons and plasmons; magnetism & superconductivity; cold-atom physics; laser tweezers. Ketterson Research Page
	Koch, Jens Assistant Professor	Tech F332 847-467-2583 email	Quantum coherence in solid-state devices such as superconducting circuits, circuit quantum electrodynamics, quantum computation and quantum simulation with cQED lattices. Koch research page
	Lithwick, Yoram Assistant Professor	Dearborn 11 847-467-0217 email	Planet formation, dynamics of planetary systems, accretion disks, MHD turbulence, cosmological halo formation, gamma-ray bursts.
	Low, Ian Assistant Professor, joint with Argonne National Laboratory	Tech F417 847-467-2618 email	Theoretical particle physics from within and beyond the standard model: theories of electroweak symmetry breaking; properties of the Higgs boson; aspects of dark matter.
	Marko, John Professor, joint with BMBCB	Tech F319 847-467-7291 email	Applications of statistical mechanics and polymer physics to biophysical problems. Marko Research Page
	Meyer, David Charles Deering McCormick Professor	Dearborn 6 847-491-4516 email	High signal-to-noise spectroscopy of interstellar and extragalactic absorption lines, small-scale structures in diffuse galactic clouds. Meyer Research Page
	Motter, Adilson Anderson Professor	Tech F323 847-491-4611 email	Theory of complex systems, nonlinear phenomena, statistical physics. Motter Research Page
	Novak, Giles Professor	Dearborn 9B 847-491-8645 email	Large-scale galactic magnetic fields, magnetic fields in the vicinity of low-mass protostars, gas turbulence in molecular clouds. Novak Research Page
	Odom, Brian Assistant Professor	Tech F315 847-467-5452 email	Experiments on mK trapped molecular ions to investigate changing fundamental constants, parity violation in chiral matter, and quantum effects in chemical reactions below 1 K Odom Research Page
	Petriello, Frank Associate Professor	Tech F421 847-467-2493 email	Perturbative QCD and its applications to collider physics; new phenomena at the TeV scale; new calculational techniques for quantum field theory. Petriello Research Page
	Rasio, Frederic Joseph Cummings Professor of Physics	Dearborn 22 847-467-3419 email	Evolution of dense star clusters, massive black hole formation, coalescing compact binaries, gravity waves, extrasolar planets. Rasio Research Page
	Sauls, James Professor	Tech F331 847-491-8624 email	Theory of quantum fluids, strongly correlated metals, systems with disorder. Complex symmetry breaking in superfluids, heavy-fermion and high-Tc superconductors. Sauls Research Page
	Schellman, Heidi Department Chair and Professor	Tech F215 847-467-3036 email	Interactions of quarks and leptons, decay of weak vector bosons, high-intensity neutrino experiments, cosmological high-energy physics. Schellman Research Page
	Schmitt, Michael Associate Professor	Tech F113 847-467-6593 email	Electroweak behavior in the Standard Model, searches for new elementary particles and new particle interactions, detector technology. Schmitt Research Page
	Seth, Kamal Professor	Tech F123 847-491-4050 email	Experimental study of exotic combinations of valence quarks and gluons, glueballs, and charmonium. Seth Research Page
	Stern, Nathaniel Assistant Professor	Tech F141 847-467-0625 email	Experimental optical condensed matter physics, nanoscale photonics and magnetism, cavity QED with single atoms and photons, spin dynamics in the solid state. Stern Research Page
	Taam, Ron Professor	Dearborn 10 847-491-7528 email	Hydrodynamics of gas flows, close binary-star systems, structure and evolution of accretion disks, X-ray bursts from neutron stars. Theoretical Astrophysics Page
	Ulmer, Melville Professor	Dearborn 3B 847-491-5633 email	Development of X-ray mirrors and ultraviolet detectors, matter distribution in galactic clusters, transient hard X-ray sources. Ulmer Research Page
	Velasco, Mayda Professor	Tech F119 847-467-7099 email	Matter-antimatter asymmetry, physics beyond the Standard Model, development of beam instrumentation, multi-TeV electron/positron and gamma/gamma colliders. Velasco Research Page
	Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad Professor	Tech F115 847-491-8147 email	Massive black hole at the center of the Galaxy, Star formation in the Galactic nucleus, supernova remnant masers.
Joint Faculty (primary appointment outside Physics & Astronomy)
	Bader, Samuel Adjunct Professor, joint with Argonne National Laboratory	Bldg 223, Argonne 630-252-4960 email	Experimental studies of magnetic surfaces and films, ferromagnetic-superconducting multilayers, bio-inspired self-assembly of magnetic nanostructures.
	Bedzyk, Michael Professor, joint with Materials Science	Cook 1011A 847-491-3570 email	Atomic-scale X-ray studies of gas/solid, liquid/solid and solid/solid interfaces, ultrathin films, membranes, and nanoparticles. Bedzyk Research Page
	Boughezal, Radja Adjunct Assistant Professor, joint with Argonne National Laboratory	Tech F224 & Bldg 362, Argonne 630-252-6965 email	Precision QCD predictions for collider observables; Higgs phenomenology; electroweak precision observables.
	Heinonen, Olle Adjunct Professor, joint with Argonne National Laboratory	Bldg. 212, C-218 Argonne 630-252-4877 email	Behavior of magnetization in nanoscale magnetic system, and also transport and resistive switching in metal/oxide metal nanostructure.
	Jacobsen, Chris Professor, joint with Argonne National Laboratory	Tech F247 630-252-7960 email	X-ray microscopy as applied to problems in biology, materials science, and environmental science. Jacobsen Research Page
	Kumar, Prem A T & T Professor of Information Technology, joint with Electrical Engineering	Tech M392 847-491-4128 email	Quantum communications and computing, nonlinear and quantum optics, fiber-optic communications, all-optical networks. Kumar Research Page
	Patashinski, Alexander Adjunct Professor, joint with Chemistry	Tech K148 847-733-7951 email	Condensed matter, bulk and surface phenomena, phase and glass transitions, turbulence
	Roberts, Doug Adjunct Associate Professor, joint with Adler Planetarium	Tech F120 847-491-4572 email	Motion of warm gas around the supermassive black hole that is believed to exist in the center of our Galaxy.
	Seideman, Tamar Professor, joint with Chemistry	Ryan 4016 847-467-4979 email	Molecular electronics, current-driven nanochemistry, interaction of matter with intense fields, photomanipulation of molecular modes. Seideman Research Page
	Shahriar, Selim Professor, joint with Electrical Engineering	Tech M248 847-491-5306 email	Gravity wave detection, cooling and trapping of neutral atoms, quantum computing, optical communication, optical coherence tomography. Shahriar Research Page
	Solla, Sara Professor, joint with Physiology	Tech F423 847-467-5080 email	Statistical physics, theoretical neuroscience, learning theory, adaptive systems, nonlinear dynamics
	Yuen, Horace Professor, joint with Electrical Engineering	Tech M320 847-491-7335 email	Theory of quantum optics and communication, the foundations of quantum physics, new quantum devices, quantum cryptography.
Lecturer Faculty
	Brown, Deborah Senior Lecturer	Tech F224 847-467-5789 e-mail	Dr. Brown is a lecturer in undergraduate physics, primarily Physics 135-1,2,3.
	Rivers, Andrew Distinguished Senior Lecturer	1918 Sheridan e-mail	Dr. Rivers lectures in undergraduate physics and astronomy and also serves as a College Advisor.
	Schmidt, Arthur Distinguished Senior Lecturer	Tech F226 847-491-7477 e-mail	Dr. Schmidt is Director of the Undergraduate Laboratories and also lectures, primarily in Physics 130-1,2,3. Schmidt Personal Page
	Smutko, Michael Distinguished Senior Lecturer, joint with Adler Planetarium	Dearborn 9A 847-491-4568 e-mail	Dr. Smutko is a lecturer in astrophysics and also oversees operation of the Dearborn Telescope.
	Taylor, David Lecturer	Tech F222 847-491-2053 e-mail	Dr. Taylor is a lecturer in undergraduate physics and coordinates the teaching assistants in the department.
	Updegraff, Emily Assistant Chair	Tech F221 847-467-5101 e-mail	Dr. Updegraff provides administrative support for the Department Chair and does pre-award research administration.
	Watkins, Byron Lecturer	Tech F126 847-467-2170 e-mail	Dr. Watkins provides technical support for the advanced undergraduate laboratories.
Research Faculty
	Anastassov, Anton Research Assistant Professor	Tech F147 630-840-2118 e-mail	Dr. Anastassov conducts research in experimental high-energy particle physics, primarily at the CMS experiment at the LHC (CERN).
	Dikin, Dmitriy Research Assistant Professor Joint with Mechanical Engineering	Tech NG29 847-467-2024 email	Physics and mechanics of nanomaterials: nanotubes and nanowires, graphene and its derivatives, polymer nanocomposites, complex oxides, unconventional superconductors; nanoresolution analytical microscopy.
	Nevirkovets, Ivan Visiting Scholar	Tech FB24 847-491-4212 e-mail	In conjunction with Professor John Ketterson, Dr. Nevirkovets conducts research on superconductor tunneling and superconducting device physics.
	Sesha Shankar, Ramakrishna Research Assistant Professor	Ryan 4024 847-491-3423 e-mail	Theoretical and computational research in conjunction with Tamar Seideman on ultrafast electronic, vibrational and rotational dynamics of molecules in the condensed phase and at interfaces.
	Shafraniuk, Serhii Research Associate Professor	Tech F222 847-467-2170 e-mail	Dr. Shafraniuk conducts research in nano-physics, particularly graphene and carbon nanotube junctions. Shafraniuk Research Page
	Tomaradze, Amiran Research Associate Professor	Tech F164 847-491-8629 e-mail	In conjunction with Professor Kamal Seth, Dr. Tomaradze conducts research on systems of charmed quarks and antiquarks (charmonium).
Emeritus Faculty
	Block, Martin Professor Emeritus	email	Phenomenology in elementary particle physics: ultra-high energy hadronic collisions, cosmic ray p-air collisions, ultra-high energy cosmic ray neutrino-isonucleon collisions, analytic solutions to perturbative QCD and mathematical physics.
	Brown, Laurie Professor Emeritus	Tech F146 email	Elementary particle theory.
	Buchholz, David Professor Emeritus	email	Elementary particle physics, experimental investigation of QCD via high-energy proton-antiproton collisions. Elementary Particle Physics Page
	Gobbi, Bruno Professor Emeritus	Tech FG60 847-491-5467 or 5463 email	Electroweak phenomena, development and construction of advanced particle detectors, Higgs particle searches. Elementary Particle Physics Page
	Oakes, Robert Professor Emeritus	Tech F146A 847-491-5458 email	QCD supersymmetric and electroweak corrections to heavy-quark and Higgs meson production in electron-positron annihilation.
	Rosen, Jerome Professor Emeritus	Tech F122 847-491-5457 email	Experimental measurements of high-energy proton-antiproton collisions to examine the properties of quarks.
	Segel, Ralph Professor Emeritus	Tech F146B 847-491-5459 email	Experimental study of the spin structure of nucleons, heavy-ion physics.