Physics Faculty

Benjamín Aleman

Associate Professor
Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, Materials Science Institute, OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-0891
Office: 178 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Physics and synthesis of low-dimensional systems; nanoelectromechanical systems; solid-state defect centers and qubits; quantum and nanoscale-based sensing and microscopy; photonics; microfluidics

David Allcock

Assistant Professor
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4674
Office: 275 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Ion trapping, quantum computing, and hybrid quantum systems

Jayanth Banavar

Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-3214
Office: 177 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Statistical Physics, Ecology, Proteins, Neuroscience, River networks

Bryan Boggs

Senior Lecturer
Associate Dept Head
Physics
Phone: 541-346-5296
Office: 43 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Optical properties of semiconductors; ultra-fast optics; Superconductivity

Spencer Chang

Full Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-0797
Office: 476 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Beyond the Standard Model Physics, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Dark Matter, Cosmology

Tim Cohen

Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: +41227672462
Office: CERN
Research Interests: Particle physics beyond the Standard Model: Large Hadron Collider phenomenology, effective field theory, electroweak naturalness, dark matter. Click <a href="https://inspirehep.net/authors/1056845">here</a> for access to my publications.

Eryn Cook

Faculty
Physics
Phone: 541-346-2713

Eric Corwin

Professor
Physics, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-4822
Office: 374 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Soft condensed matter, granular materials, jamming, the glass transition, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, using experimental, simulational, and theoretical tools.

C. Dudley

Research Associate
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4004
Office: 316 Willamette Hall

Steven van Enk

Professor
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4899
Office: 251 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: quantum computing, model selection, and probability

Ben Farr

Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5201
Office: 470 Willamette Hall

Scott Fisher

Astronomy Lecturer and Outreach Dir
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4799
Office: 103C Klamath Hall

Raymond Frey

Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5873
Office: 462 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Astrophysics, gravitational waves

Andrea Goering

Faculty
Physics
Phone: 541-346-4871
Office: 143 Willamette Hall

Jochen Jens Heinrich

Pro Tem Research Associate
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Office: CERN, Switzerland

Laura Jeanty

Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4818
Office: 405 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: experimental high energy physics, the ATLAS experiment, searches for dark matter, supersymmetry, and new long-lived particles, precision electroweak measurements, silicon detectors and data acquisition

Graham Kribs

Professor
Director, Institute for Fundamental Science
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4853
Office: 477 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Effective Field Theory of Models Beyond the Standard Model; Particle Astrophysics; Early Universe Cosmology.

Stephanie Majewski

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Physics; Deputy Director, Institute for Fundamental Science
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5872
Office: 402 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: high energy physics, ATLAS experiment, supersymmetry, physics beyond the standard model

Ben McMorran

Professor
OMQ, Physics, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-8624
Office: 174 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: free electron physics and interferometry, matter wave optics, electron microscopy, magnetic materials

Kayla Nguyen

Assistant Professor
OMQ, Physics
Office: 172 Willamette
Research Interests: electron microscopy, ptychography, magnetism, topology

Jens Noeckel

Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5210
Office: 456 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Quantum chaos and semiclassical physics in microcavity optics; optical and transport properties of mesoscopic systems.

Raghuveer Parthasarathy

Professor
Physics, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-2933
Office: 362 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Biophysics; multicellular organization and bacterial population dynamics; advanced microscopy techniques and computational image analysis.

Jayson Paulose

Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4813
Office: 375 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Theoretical soft matter physics, biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, metamaterials design

Billy Scannell

Instructor
Lower Division Lab Coordinator
Physics
Phone: 541-346-5256
Office: 145 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Physics education, demonstrations, and outreach.

Robert Schofield

Research Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4783
Office: B2 Volcanology
Research Interests: Gravitational Waves/structural biophysics

James Schombert

Professor
College Scholars, Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5214
Office: 461 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: observational cosmology, dark matter, galaxy evolution

Brian Smith

Professor
OMQ Director
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5790
Office: 262 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Quantum optics, quantum information science and technology, and optics

Daniel Steck

Assoc. Professor
Multidisciplinary Science, OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5313
Office: 277 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Quantum and atom optics, quantum nonlinear dynamical systems, laser cooling and trapping of atoms

David Strom

Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-6108
Office: 447 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Quantum black hole production in proton-proton collisions, Higgs (in beyond the Standard Model Scenarios), triggering at hadron colliders, detectors and electronics for linear colliders, precision electroweak measurements, ATLAS

Richard Taylor

Professor
Physics Department Head
Physics, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-4741
Office: 173 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Nanoelectronics, neuroscience, retinal implants, solar cells, visual science of fractals

Eric Torrence

Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4618
Office: 418 Willamette Hall

Hailin Wang

Professor
Alec and Kay Keith Chair in Physics
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4758
Office: 274 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Experimental optical and condensed matter physics; quantum optics with spins, excitons, and nanomechanical oscillators, quantum information processing

David Wineland

Philip H. Knight Distinguished Research Chair
Research Professor, Department of Physics
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 3035068896
Office: 261 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: High-resolution atomic spectroscopy, quantum information, quantum-limited metrology

Frank Winklmeier

Senior Research Associate I
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 412-276-70749
Office: CERN, Switzerland

Tien-Tien Yu

Associate Professor
Physics
Phone: 541-346-4820
Office: 474 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: dark matter; beyond the Standard Model physics; cosmology

Nik Zhelev

Research Assistant Professor
Director of Quantum Technology Master's Internship Program
Materials Science Institute, OMQ, Physics
Office: Willamette 176
Research Interests: Superconducting Quantum Circuits, Quantum Computing Hardware