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Name  | Contact Info | Areas of Interest | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Zudov Professor | PAN 224 (office), 626-0364 PAN 42 (lab), 624-2076 zudov @ physics.umn.edu | Quantum transport in two-dimensional systems |
| William Zimmermann Emeritus Faculty | TATEH 201-25 (office), 624-4387 TATEH B30-02 (lab), 301-8546 zimme004 @ umn.edu | Experimental study of superfluidity in liquid 4He and 3He/4He mixtures. |
| John Wygant Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | 626-8921 wygan001 @ umn.edu | Experimental Space Plasma Physics: Shock waves; aurora; magnetic field reconnection; mechanisms for relativistic particle acceleration. |
| Paul Woodward Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics); Director, LCSE | WALIB 428 (office), 625-8049 paul @ lcse.umn.edu | Astronomy | |
| Charles E. Woodward Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics); Coordinator LBTO | TATEH 285-06 (office), 624-0254 TATEH 265/270 (lab), 626-2067 woodw024 @ umn.edu | Solar system comets; classical novae and CVs; evolved stellar populations, National/International Space and Research Policy |
| Liliya L.R. Williams Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 285-10 (office), 624-1084 llrw @ umn.edu | Cosmology; properties of dark matter halos; gravitational lensing |
| Ke Wang Assistant Professor | PAN 228 (office), 612-301-2434 PAN 376 (lab) kewang @ umn.edu | Novel quantum physics in gate-defined nanostructures on 2D Van der Waals materials |
| Thomas Walsh Professor | TATEH 375-22 (office), 624-1371 tfw @ physics.umn.edu | Phenomenology of Quantum Chromodynamics and the Standard Model; Lattice Gauge Theory; Astroparticle Physics; Energy Sources in 2100 |
| Cecil J. Waddington Emeritus Faculty (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | PAN 242 (office), 624-2566 wadd @ physics.umn.edu | Cosmic Ray physics |
| Mikhail Voloshin Professor (Fine Theoretical Physics Institute) | TATEH 275-14 (office), 625-0798 voloshin @ physics.umn.edu | Properties of elementary particles. Gauge theories of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions. Non-perturbative dynamics of quantum fields. |
| Jorge Vinals Professor / Director of Graduate Studies | TATEH Room 130-17 (office), 624-9074 vinals @ umn.edu | Nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation, and chaos in systems driven outside of thermodynamic equilibrium. Topological defect motion in soft matter, including transport. |
| Oriol T. Valls Professor | TATEH 130-25 (office), 624-0516 otvalls @ umn.edu | Superconducting and Magnetic Proximity Effects in F/S nanostructures; Exotic forms of superconductivity; Charge and Spin Transport in F/S nanostructures; Superfluid Hydrodynamics; Dynamics of quantum Crystals. |
| Arkady Vainshtein Professor (Fine Theoretical Physics Institute) | TATEH 275-17 (office), 626-0814 vainshte @ umn.edu | Theory of fundamental interactions: gauge theories, supersymmetry. Operator product expansion and its applications. |
| Yau-Chien Tang Emeritus Faculty | tang @ physics.umn.edu | ||
| Roger H. Stuewer Emeritus Faculty | TATEH 130-31 (office), 624-5770 rstuewer @ physics.umn.edu | History of Science |
| Evan Skillman Professor/Director (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 285-16 (office), 624-9523 skillman @ astro.umn.edu | Extragalactic Observational Astronomy; Specializing in: Chemical Evolution of Galaxies, Structure and Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies, H II Region Abundances, Star Formation, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Cluster Galaxies |
| Boris Shklovskii Professor (Fine Theoretical Physics Institute) | TATEH 275-10 (office), 625-0771 shklovsk @ physics.umn.edu | Theory of transport and electron-electron correlations in disordered systems, quantum Hall effect, hopping conduction, metal-nonmetal transition and transport in nano-crystal films. |
| Mikhail Shifman Professor (Fine Theoretical Physics Institute) | TATEH 275-08 (office), 626-0723 shifman @ physics.umn.edu | Gauge field theories at strong coupling and supersymmetric field theories in various dimensions; supersymmetric solitons and solitons at the interface of high energy physics and condensed matter. |
| M. Claudia Scarlata Associate Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) Dir. of Graduate Studies | TATEH 285-08 (office), 626-1811 scarlata @ astro.umn.edu | Galaxy formation and evolution: massive galaxies, evolution of galaxy structure. Lyα line as a cosmological tool: escape of Lyα photons, large-scale structure, Lyα blobs. Reionization: Lyman continuum escape fraction, IR background fluctuations |
| Roger Rusack Professor | PAN 430 (office), 624-2322 rusack @ physics.umn.edu | I carry out accelerator based experiments to understand the fundamental forces in Nature. |
| Lawrence Rudnick Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 275-02 (office), 624-3396 larry @ umn.edu | Interactions of astrophysical relativistic and thermal plasmas in clusters of galaxies. Formation of cosmic large-scale structure and magnetic fields. Studied through radio, X-ray and optical observations, and citizen science projects. |
| Serge Rudaz Professor | TATEH 375-20 (office), 624-5022 rudaz @ physics.umn.edu | Unified theories of elementary particle interactions and their phenomenology, applications to cosmology and astroparticle physics; |
| Yong-Zhong Qian Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 375-18 (office), 624-7567 qian @ physics.umn.edu | Nuclear/particle astrophysics and cosmology: neutrino oscillations and their effects in astrophysical environments, supernova explosion and nucleosynthesis, chemical evolution of galaxies |
| Elias Puchner Assistant Professor | PAN 413 (office), 6123012326 PAN 481 (lab) epuchner @ umn.edu | Cellular and molecular biophysics, cell- and synthetic biology. Single molecule and super-resolution microscopy (PALM/STORM). Single molecule force spectroscopy (AFM). http://puchnerlab.umn.edu |
| Clement Pryke Associate Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | PAN 318 (office), 624-7578 PAN 382 (lab) pryke @ physics.umn.edu | Astrophysics and Cosmology--Cosmic microwave background |
| Vlad Pribiag Assistant Professor | PAN 214 (office), 612-301-1817 PAN 353 (lab) vpribiag @ umn.edu | My research focuses on quantum electronic transport in low-dimensional semiconductor systems. |
| Ronald Poling Professor, Head of School of Physics and Astronomy | TATEH 130-11 (office), 624-7870 PAN 354 (office), 624-6950 poling @ umn.edu | Particle Physics |
| Natalia Perkins Associate Professor | TATEH 130-19 (office), 301-6786 nperkins @ umn.edu | Strongly correlated electron systems. Frustrated magnetism. Orbital physics. Competing phases and emergent order in systems with strong spin-orbit coupling. |
| Robert Pepin Emeritus Faculty (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | SHEPLAB 421 (office), 624-0819 SHEPLAB 214 (lab), 624-6001 pepin001 @ umn.edu | |
| Marco Peloso Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 375-12 (office), 624-6525 peloso @ physics.umn.edu | Astroparticle physics, Inflation, Cosmology of extra-dimensions, Physics beyond the Standard Model |
| Gregory Pawloski Associate Professor | PAN 344 (office), 624-7592 pawloski @ physics.umn.edu | Neutrino oscillation, Matter-antimatter asymmetries, Physics beyond the standard model |
| Keith Olive Professor (Director, Fine Theoretical Physics Institute and Member, Minnesota Institute for Astrophy | TATEH 275-18 (office), 624-7354 olive @ umn.edu | Cosmology/Particle Physics |
| Vincent Noireaux Professor | PAN 416 (office), 612-624-6589 PAN 484 (lab), 612-626-8085 noireaux @ umn.edu | Experimental biological physics and synthetic biology. In vitro gene expression, development of quantitative cell-free transcription/translation systems, biophysics of a synthetic cell system. |
| Jochen Mueller Professor | PAN 418 (office), 625-4369 PAN 487 (lab) jochen @ umn.edu | Experimental biophysics, two-photon excitation microscopy, fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy |
| Marvin Marshak Professor | PAN 330 (office), 612-624-1312 PAN 450 (lab) marshak @ umn.edu | Properties of fundamental interactions, including measurement of neutrino mass, tests of stability of matter (proton decay); high energy cosmic ray physics and astrophysics. |
| Jeremiah Mans Associate Professor/Director of Undergraduate Studies | PAN 427 (office), 625-8994 PAN 475 (lab) jmmans @ physics.umn.edu | Hadron collider physics at the high energy frontier, trigger and data acquisition electronics. |
| Vuk Mandic Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | PAN 328 (office), 624-6844 mandic @ physics.umn.edu | Gravitational Wave Physics, Observational Cosmology, Early Universe Physics |
| Robert Lysak Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 285-18 (office), 625-1323 lysak001 @ umn.edu | Theoretical Space Plasma Physics, especially magnetospheric physics; auroral particle acceleration; dynamics of ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves in the magnetosphere, especially kinetic Alfven waves; magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; dynamics of field-ali |
| Yuichi Kubota Professor | PAN 428 (office), 624-9582 PAN 470 (lab), 301-2339 yk @ umn.edu | I am interested in finding clues to the future theory of particles which will extend our current understanding. So far from three years of data collection (2010-2012) and analysis, evidence for neither SUSY nor extra dimension has been found. |
| Patrick Kelly Assistant Professor | TATEH 285-12 (office), 612-624-8462 plkelly @ umn.edu | Supernova (SN) explosions, gravitational lensing, SN host-galaxy environments, SN Ia cosmology, stellar populations, star formation, dark matter |
| Paul Kellogg Emeritus Faculty | TATEH 201-25 (office), 624-1668 pauljkellogg @ gmail.com | |
| Joseph Kapusta Professor | TATEH Room 375-16 (office), 624-0506 kapusta @ physics.umn.edu | Quantum field theory at finite temperature and density with applications to high energy nuclear collisions, astrophysics, and cosmology. |
| Alex Kamenev Professor (Fine Theoretical Physics Institute) | TATEH 275-16 (office), 626-0724 kamenev @ physics.umn.edu | Theoretical condensed matter physics, disordered systems and glasses, field-theoretical treatment of many-body systems, mesoscopic systems, out of equilibrium systems |
| James Kakalios Professor | PAN 352 (office), 624-9856 PAN 381 (lab), 626-7479 kakalios @ umn.edu | Experimental Condensed Matter: Amorphous Semiconductors, Fluctuation Phenomena in Neurological Systems, Segregation in Granular Media |
| Terry J. Jones Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 260 (office), 624-8009 626-2067 TATEH 265 (lab) tjj @ astro.umn.edu | Astronomical polarimetry, Infrared astronomy, Comets and Interstellar Magnetic Fields. |
| Thomas W. Jones Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 285-02 (office), 624-8546 WALIB 411 (office), 624-1699 twj @ umn.edu | Theoretical and computational astrophysics, acceleration of cosmic rays, physics of diffusive shock acceleration, magnetohydrodynamics, galaxy clusters and the intracluster medium, radio galaxy dynamics, supernova remnant dynamics [Research Group Web Pag |
| Michel Janssen Professor | TATEH 130-27 (office), 624-5880 janss011 @ umn.edu | History of physics, especially the relativity and quantum revolutions in the early twentieth century. |
| Roberta Humphreys Emeritus Faculty (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 285-07 (office), 624-6530 roberta @ umn.edu | Luminous stars, stellar evolution, optical spectroscopy, galactic structure |
| Cheng-Cher Huang Professor | PAN 230 (office), 624-0861 huang001 @ umn.edu | Condensed Matter |
| Russell Hobbie Emeritus Faculty | hobbie @ umn.edu | My interest is in biological and medical physics. |
| Kenneth Heller Professor | PAN 348 (office), 624-7314 PAN 450 (lab) heller @ physics.umn.edu | Research in high energy particle physics currently focuses on neutrino oscillations as measured in long baseline accelerator experiments. Research in physics education focuses the use, learning, and teaching of problem solving in physics. |
| Alexander Heger | alexander.heger @ monash.edu | Massive and very massive stars, the first stars, stellar rotation, nucleosynthesis, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, X-ray bursts. |
| Shaul Hanany Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | PAN 316 (office), 626-8929 PAN 388 (lab), 625-1074 hanany @ umn.edu | Observational Cosmology; Early Universe Physics |
| J. Woods Halley Professor | TATEH 130-15 (office), 624-0395 halle001 @ umn.edu | Condensed matter and chemical physics theory, simulation and experiment with an emphasis on interfaces and models of prebiotic evolution. |
| Paul Haines Teaching Associate Professor | PAN 419 (office) haines @ physics.umn.edu | ||
| Martin Greven Professor | PAN 218 (office), 624-7542 PAN 264, 270, 276 (lab), 626-9668 greven @ physics.umn.edu | Experimental condensed matter physics. High-temperature superconductivity. Low-dimensional magnetism. Crystal growth of quantum materials. Neutron and X-ray scattering. Charge transport. |
| Allen Goldman Regents Professor | PAN 226 (office), 624-6062 PAN 20, 30 (lab) goldman @ umn.edu | Properties of superconductors and selected magnetic materials in the configuration of thin films. |
| Lindsay Glesener Assistant Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 262 (office), 612-624-8392 TATEH 255 (lab) glesener @ umn.edu | Solar and space physics, high-energy astrophysics, astronomical instrumentation development |
| Tony Gherghetta Professor | TATEH 375-14 (office), 301-9198 tgher @ umn.edu | Physics beyond the Standard Model; LHC phenomenology; Supersymmetry; Extra dimensions; AdS/CFT and holography. |
| Robert Gehrz Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 285-04 (office), 624-7806 TATEH 270 (lab), 626-2067 gehrz @ astro.umn.edu | Astronomy |
| Eric Ganz Associate Professor | PAN 319 (office), 624-2386 ganzx001 @ umn.edu | Calculations of the properties of novel Materials |
| Lucy Fortson Professor and SPA Associate Head (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 285-14 (office), 624-9587 fortson @ physics.umn.edu | High-energy astrophysics, gamma-ray astronomy, extragalactic astronomy including active galactic nuclei and barred spirals; Developing online citizen science as a method to solve research problems with large datasets; physics education research. |
| Rafael Fernandes Associate Professor | TATEH 130-23 (office), 612-625-9283 rfernand @ umn.edu | Strongly correlated electron systems. Unconventional superconductivity. Competing phases and emergent order. Disorder effects in quantum phase transitions. |
| John Dickey Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | 61-3-6226-2447 john.dickey @ utas.edu.au | Radio Spectroscopy of the Milky Way and other galaxies. |
| Kris Davidson Emeritus Faculty (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 285-07 (office), 624-5711 kd @ astro.umn.edu | Astronomy |
| E. Dan Dahlberg Professor | PAN 219 (office), 624-3506 PAN 10 (lab), 424-4058 dand @ physics.umn.edu | Condensed Matter |
| Priscilla Cushman Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | PAN 327 (office), 626-8917 cushman @ umn.edu | Dark matter searches, novel particle detectors, collaborative work in integrative tools for Underground Science, low background techniques |
| Paul Crowell Professor | PAN 16517856680 (office), 624-4828 PAN 283 (lab), 626-9371 crowell @ umn.edu | Spin dynamics and transport in ferromagnets and ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructures. |
| Dan Cronin-Hennessy Professor | PAN 346 (office), 624-9079 PAN 450 (lab) croni028 @ umn.edu | CP Violation, Quark Mixing, Neutrino Oscillation, Flavor Violation |
| Hans Courant Emeritus Faculty | TATEH 201-25 (office), 624-9361 hans @ physics.umn.edu | Accelerator and non-accelerator elementary particle physics at the Soudan Underground Research Facility, and at Brookhaven National Laboratory. |
| Andrey Chubukov Professor (Fine Theoretical Physics Institute) | TATEH 275-19 (office), 612-626-0726 achubuko @ umn.edu | Condensed matter theorist working in the area of unconventional behavior or electrons: superconductivity, strongly- correlated electron systems and quantum magnetism |
| Cynthia Cattell Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) | TATEH 258 (office), 626-8918 cattell @ umn.edu | Space plasma physics; magnetic and electric field measurements; auroral particle acceleration; particle acceleration and wave processes in Earth’s radiation belts; non-linear plasma physics; magnetic reconnection and shocks. |
| Charles E. Campbell Emeritus Faculty | TATEH 130-21 (office), 624-4141 campbell @ umn.edu | The many-body theory and statistical mechanics of quantum spin systems and of strongly correlated quantum fluids. |
| Fiona Burnell Assistant Professor | TATEH 130-13 (office), 624-0319 fburnell @ umn.edu | Exotic phases of matter-- phases not described by the conventional Landau classification based on broken symmetries. |
| John Broadhurst Emeritus Faculty, Professor | TATEH 201-25 (office), 624-2502 broad010 @ umn.edu | The process of human hearing, using locally induced nuclear reactions to enhance the treatment of cancers by high energy (Mev) photons or thermal neutrons. The role of heavy cations in controlling contracting muscle cells.. |
| Victor Boantza Assistant Professor (History of Science & Technology) | TATEH 130-29 (office) boantza @ physics.umn.edu | History of Science |
| Jianming Bian Adjunct Professor | PAN 424 (office), 624-7861 bianjm @ physics.umn.edu | |
| Alberto Benvenuti Adjunct Professor | PAN 423 (office) abenvenu @ umn.edu | Elementary particle interactions at the highest available energies and searches for "beyond the standard model" physics. Currently in the LHC CMS collaboration since 1992. | |
| Benjamin Bayman Emeritus Faculty, Professor | TATEH 201-25 (office), 624-0309 bayman @ umn.edu | Theoretical nuclear physics; nuclear structure; direct nuclear reactions; relativistic Coulomb excitation |