Physics and Space Sciences Faculty and Staff

Physics and Space Sciences

Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students

All phone numbers use area code 321. Offices are in the Olin Physical Sciences Building (OPS). Click here for a campus map.

	Marc Baarmand, Ph.D. Professor experimental high-energy particle physics at Fermilab and CERN, multi-TeV proton-proton collisions with CMS experiment, grid computing 237 OPS email 674-7266		Laszlo Baksay, Ph.D. Professor experimental high-energy physics at LHC and LEP/CERN, detector development, maglev 236 OPS email 674 - 7367
	Samuel Durrance, Ph.D. Professor effects of space flight on humans, astrobiology, planetary science 346 OPS email 674-7313		Joseph Dwyer, Ph.D. Professor, Director of Geospace Physics Laboratory (GPL) thunderstorms and lightning, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), runaway breakdown and x-rays from lightning 350 OPS email 674-7208
	Jim Gering, M.S. Instructor, Director of Undergraduate Laboratories physics education 138 OPS email 674-7106		Marcus Hohlmann, Ph.D. Associate Professor experimental high-energy physics with CMS experiment at CERN and PHENIX at BNL, particle detector development, muon radiography, high-performance computing 343 OPS email 674-7275
	Ningyu Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor atmospheric electricity and space physics, gas discharge physics, plasma chemistry and materials processing, computational physics 348 OPS email 674-7348		T. Dwayne McCay, Ph.D. Provost materials science, materials processing in space Provost's Suite, Bldg 401 email 674-7297
	Hakeem Oluseyi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor solar/stellar astrophysics, cosmology, solid-state detectors, semiconductor manufacturing, history of astronomy, science education 233 OPS email 674-7247		Terry Oswalt, Ph.D. Professor, Department Head, Associate Provost for Research stellar spectroscopy and photometry, white dwarf and binary stars, minor planets and comets 146 OPS email 674-7325
	Eric Perlman, Ph.D. Associate Professor active galactic nuclei, jets, observational cosmology, high-energy and multiwavelength astrophysics 234 OPS email 674-7741		Hamid Rassoul, Ph.D. Professor, Associate Dean of College of Science planetary lightning, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), cosmic rays, space weather, low- and mid-latitude aurorae 302/351 OPS email 674-8778
	Benjamin Sawyer, M.S. Assistant Professor physics education 235 OPS email 674-7355		Niescja Turner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor space physics, magnetic storms, solar wind-magnetosphere coupling, 3D scientific visualization, physics and astronomy education research 347 OPS email 674-7135
	Ke-Gang Wang, Ph.D. Associate Professor condensed matter, statistical physics, materials science, multiscale modeling, materials processing, microstructure and nanostructures 232 OPS email 674-8799		Matt Wood, Ph.D. Professor astronomy & astrophysics, theory and observation of white dwarf stars and cataclysmic variables 336 OPS email 674 - 7207
	Ming Zhang, Ph.D. Professor cosmic radiation and interactions with the plasma and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium, the heliosphere and magnetospheres 349 OPS email 674 - 8891