Faculty
Cacey Bester
Assistant Professor of Physics
On leave Fall 2022 and Spring 2023
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
Interim Department Chair
Physics and Astronomy
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Research interests: Plasma physics, experiment (SSX), plasma turbulence, magnetic reconnection, solar physics, and fusion.

David Cohen
Professor of Astronomy
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
Physics & Astronomy
Professor of Physics — on leave 2022-23
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Research interests: Physics education, protein-cell membrane interactions, and nanoparticle physics

Ben Geller
Associate Professor of Physics
Coordinator of NSE Educational Support Initiatives
Director, Swarthmore Summer Scholars (S3P) Program
Physics & Astronomy
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Amy Graves
Walter Kemp Professor Emerita in the Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics
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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.


Jeffrey Hyde
Visiting Assistant Professor
Physics & Astronomy
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Research Interests: Particle astrophysics & cosmology, neutrino physics

Eric Jensen
Professor of Astronomy
Chair, Division of Natural Sciences & Engineering
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Research interests: Extrasolar planets and planet formation, particularly in binary star systems.

Wing-Ho Ko
Visiting Assistant Professor
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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Kristen Recine
Laboratory Lecturer
Physics/Astronomy
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Staff
Paul Jacobs
Instrument Technician
Physics and Astronomy
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Steve Palmer
Machinist
Physics & Astronomy
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Emeriti
Peter Collings
Morris L. Clothier Professor of Physics (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.
