Faculty and Staff Directory
Faculty
- Acting Physics Department Chair (Spr 2020)
- Professor, Physics
Specialties
- Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy
- Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School
- Professor, Physics
Research Interests
- Atmospheric Science
- Cloud and aerosol physics and chemistry
- Nucleation
- Associate Professor, Physics
Specialties
- Nonlinear effects in optical nanowires
- Optical solitons in soft-matter
- Parity-time symmetry in optics
- QED effects inside photonic structures
Specialties
- Experimental Astroparticle Physics
- Assistant Professor, Physics
Research Interests
- Cosmology
- Neutrinos Cosmology
- Large-scale structure and Cosmic Microwave Background radiation
- Dark energy and dark matter models
- Machine Learning applied on cosmological Challenges
- Computer vision and deep learning
- Bayesian analysis
- Predictive Modeling
- Director, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute (EPSSI)
- Professor, Physics
Specialties
- Gamma-Ray Emission
- High-Energy Cosmic Rays
- Assistant Professor, Physics
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering
Mechanics
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Research Interests
- Atmospheric Physics
- Turbulence
- Thermal convection
- Numerical simulations
- Supercomputing
- Professor of Physics
- Director and Curator, A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum
- Affiliated
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
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Teaching Interests
- Nanotechnology Education
- Assessment in STEM education
Research Interests
- Theoretical condensed matter physics
- Theory and modeling of single-electron transport devices
- Modeling and simulation of properties of interfaces and interface materials
- Atomistic computational physics of surface phases and surface dynamics
- Crystal growth
- Mineralogy of natural graphite
- Professor, Physics and Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
- Photonics
- Nonreciprocal Phenomena
Specialties
- Atmospheric Science
- Aerosol properties (optical, physical and morphological) and effects on clouds and
climate
- Instrument development and environmental optics
Michael R. Meyer
- Director - William G. Jackson Center for Teaching and Learning
Specialties
- Directs and coordinates center activities with those of other campus units
- Holds pedagogical consultations with faculty and staff from all departments
- Promotes new faculty development tools, training, and opportunities
- Coordinates initiatives to support teaching and learning, such as the university testing
center
- Holds joint appointment as physics senior lecturer
- Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Electronic and Photonic Materials
- Diffraction (Physics and Applications)
- Experimental Design
Research Interests
- Heteroepitaxial growth on compliant substrates
- Fabrication, characterization, and properties of nanoscale layered structures
- Integration of dissimilar materials through wafer bonding
- The relationship between structural, optical, and electronic properties of heterostructures
- Quantitative x-ray diffraction analysis
- Materials Science curriculum development at all educational levels
- The relationship between information and atoms
- Assistant Professor, Physics
Research Interests
- Self-assembly of macromolecules
- Ion solvation in liquids
- Dielectric response of molecules under external electrostatic fields
- Electrochemistry related to energy storage
- Computer simulations for macromolecular systems
- Radiation biology
- Biological physics
Research Interests
- Gamma-ray bursts
- Gravitational lensing
- Smartphones as science sensors
- Cosmology
- Gravitation
- Relativistic Illumination Fronts
- Department Chair, Physics
- Professor, Physics
- Fellow of American Physical Society
- Graduate Director of Physics
- Professor, Physics
Specialties
- Modeling Molecular Electronics Devices
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Theoretical atomic physics
- Electrophysics
- Distinguished Professor, Physics
- Director, Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. Program
- Affiliated
Professor, Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics
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Research Interests
- Atmospheric Physics
- Cloud Physics
- Nucleation
- Turbulence
- Digital Holography
- Associate Professor, Physics
Research Interests
- Light-matter interactions and quantum optics on nanoscale platforms (i.e. nanostructures)
- Coherent and nonlinear processes in metal or semiconductor nanocavities
- Time-resolved laser spectroscopy and nanofabrications
Specialties
- Condensed Matter Experiment (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)
- NMR and NQR Engineering (Materials Detection)
- Associate Professor, Physics
- University Professor
- Professor of Physics, Director of Applied Physics Graduate Program
- Osaka
University Global Alumni Fellow, MTU Faculty Fellow
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Teaching Interests
- Solid-State Physics
- Optics
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering (Nanotechnology)
- Electromagnetism
Research Interests
- Controlled synthesis of 0D, 1D, and 2D materials (Nanotubes, 2D layered materials,
Nanowires, Quantum Dots, and their heterostructures, etc.).
- Exploration of new functional nanomaterials, heterojunctions, heterostructures, nano-hybrids,
and nano-systems.
- Creative use of nanomaterials for advanced electronics, quantum switching, energy
harvesting, environmental, chemical and biomedical applications.
Staff
Jesse J. Nordeng
- Master Machinist, Physics
Wil Slough
- Lab Coordinator
- Instructor
