Faculty
Cacey Bester
Assistant Professor of Physics
Physics & Astronomy
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Research interests: experimental soft condensed matter, granular flow, and sediment transport
Michael Brown
Morris L. Clothier Professor of Physics
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Research interests: Plasma physics, experiment (SSX), plasma turbulence, magnetic reconnection, solar physics, and fusion.
David Cohen
Professor of Astronomy, Department Chair
Physics & Astronomy
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Research interests: Massive stars, stellar winds, X-ray astrophysics, and exoplanets.
Eva-Maria S. Collins
Associate Professor
Systems Biology
Affiliated Faculty, Physics & Astronomy
Adjunct Member, CEET Environmental Neuroscience
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Catherine Crouch
Professor of Physics
Physics & Astronomy
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Research interests: Protein-cell membrane interactions, nanoparticle physics, and physics education
Ben Geller
Assistant Professor of Physics
Coordinator of NSE Educational Support Initiatives
Physics & Astronomy
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Amy Graves
Walter Kemp Professor in the Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics
I will be teaching on campus, but mostly at home (thanks, pandemic ;-/) in Spring 2021.
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Research Interests: Computer simulations of soft matter systems. We study the jamming phase transition between fluid and disordered solid. We also simulate "active matter", to understand transport and self-organized behavior in crowds of self-propelled particles.
Eric Jensen
Professor of Astronomy
On leave 2020-2021
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Research interests: Extrasolar planets and planet formation, particularly in binary star systems.
Kristine Lui
Visiting Assistant Prof (PT)
Physics/Astronomy
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Jesus (Jesse) Rivera
Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Physics & Astronomy
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Research interests: radio astronomy, dusty star-forming galaxies, gravitational lensing, galaxy formation and evolution
Hillary Smith
Assistant Professor of Physics
Physics & Astronomy
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Research Interests: materials physics, energy storage materials, phonon dynamics, scattering
Tristan Smith
Associate Professor of Physics
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Research interests: Early universe cosmology; tests of modified theories of gravity; analysis of the cosmic microwave background
Lecturers
Mary Ann Klassen
Senior Laboratory Lecturer
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Emeriti
Peter Collings
Morris L. Clothier Professor of Physics (Emeritus)
Emeritus Physics & Astronomy
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Research interests: Soft condensed matter, liquid crystals, and molecular assembly.
Frank Moscatelli
Early Retiree - Physics & Astr
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Research interests: Biomedical imaging and spectroscopy; laser physics; atomic cooling and trapping.
Staff
Paul Jacobs
Instrument Technician
Physics and Astronomy
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Steve Palmer
Machinist
Physics & Astronomy
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