Faculty Research Interests

         
Faculty Department Title Areas of Research
Aravind, Padmanabhan K. PH Professor Theory: Quantum mechanics and quantum information theory
Burnham, Nancy A.  PH Associate Professor Experiment: Mechanical properties of nanostructures, instrumentation and metrology for nanomechanics
Dick, Frank A.  PH Adjunct Assistant Professor Theory: Modeling fundamental particles as curved space-times;  Inelastic atom-photon interactions
Garcia, Rafael PH Assistant Professor Experiment: Condensed matter experiment, wetting, Casimir forces, properties of liquids and liquid crystals on solid surfaces
Iannacchione, Germano S.  PH Associate Professor Experiment: Soft condensed matter physics/complex fluids, biophysics, liquid-crystals, calorimetry, order-disorder and self-assembly phenomena
Kashuri, Hektor PH Adjunct Assistant Professor Experiment: Noninvasive study of electrical properties of human muscles
Keil, Thomas H.  PH Professor Theory: Solid state physics, mathematical physics, fluid mechanics
Koehler, Stephan A.  PH Assistant Professor Experiment: Soft materials, complex fluids and granular flows
Koleci, Carolann PH Director of Physics Education Practice: Physics education, problem solving and decision making, curriculum development and assessment, electromagnetism resources, visualizations 
Phillies, George D.  PH Professor Theory: Theoretical statistical mechanics, dynamics of polymer solutions, molecular dynamics, the glass problem, diffusion, rheology, colloid solution dynamics, design of strategic board games.
Quimby, Richard S.  PH Associate Professor Experiment: Optical properties of solids, laser spectroscopy, fiber optics
Ram-Mohan, L. R.  PH Professor Theory: Quantum field theory, solid state physics, differential geometry and finite-element modeling of spintronic and optoelectronic quantum systems; diffusion in multicomponent metallic alloys
Stroe, Izabela PH Assistant Professor Experiment: Hydration effects on protein dynamics, thermodynamics of proteins and DNA, dielectric relaxation spectroscopy, relaxation calorimetry, resonant ultrasound spectroscopy
Tuzel, Erkan  PH Assistant Professor Theory: Soft condensed matter physics/complex fluids, capillary wave theory, biophysics, biopolymers and molecular motors, cell mechanics
Zozulya, Alex A.  PH Professor Theory: Atomic and molecular physics, cold atom optics, nonlinear optics
       
       
       
       
       
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