Physics and Space Sciences Faculty and Staff

Physics and Space Sciences

Faculty and Staff

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, Dept. Head of Education & Interdisc. Studies Fellow, Amer. Physical Society UNESCO Sat, experimental high-energy physics at LHC, detector development email 674-7205
	Daniel Batcheldor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Director Olin Observatory supermassive black holes, galaxy evol., space-based obs. astronomy, extreme contrast ratio imaging 337 OPS email 674-7717		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, lightning, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), runaway breakdown, x-rays from lightning 350 OPS email 674-7208		James Gering, M.S. Instructor, Director of Undergraduate Laboratories 138 OPS email 674-7106
	Marcus Hohlmann, Ph.D. Associate Professor experimental high-energy physics with CMS at CERN, particle detector development, muon tomography, high-performance grid computing 343 OPS email 674-7275		Ningyu Liu, Ph.D. Associate Professor atmospheric electricity and space physics, gas discharge physics, plasma chemistry & materials processing, computational physics 348 OPS email 674-7348
	T. Dwayne McCay, Ph.D. Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Professor 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 stellar spectroscopy and photometry, white dwarf & 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 & multiwavelength astrophysics 234 OPS email 674-7741
	Hamid Rassoul, Ph.D. Professor, Dean of College of Science planetary lightning, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), cosmic rays, space weather, low- & mid-latitude aurorae 302/351 OPS email 674-8778		Benjamin Sawyer, M.S. Assistant Professor 235 OPS email 674-7355
	Niescja Turner, Ph.D. Associate Professor space physics, magnetic storms, solar wind- magnetosphere coupling, corot. interaction regions, ring current, physics education research 347 OPS email 674-7135		Francisco Yumiceva, Ph.D. Assistant Professor experimental high-energy physics at CERN, search for exotic particles, simulation and development of particle detectors 236 OPS email 674-7338
	Ming Zhang, Ph.D. Professor cosmic radiation and interactions with plasma and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium, the heliosphere, and magnetospheres 349 OPS email 674-8891