Physics Faculty
Benjamín Aleman
Associate Professor
Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, Materials Science Institute, OMQ, Physics
Email: baleman@uoregon.edu
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
Email: dallcock@uoregon.edu
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
Email: Banavar@uoregon.edu
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
Email: bsboggs@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5296
Office: 43 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Optical properties of semiconductors; ultra-fast optics; Superconductivity
James Brau
Knight Professor of Natural Science
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: jimbrau@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4766
Office: 414B Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (ATLAS and ILC) and Gravitational Radiation (LIGO)
Spencer Chang
Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: chang2@uoregon.edu
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
Email: tcohen@uoregon.edu
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.
Eric Corwin
Professor
Physics, SAIL
Email: ecorwin@uoregon.edu
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.
Steven van Enk
Professor
OMQ, Physics
Email: svanenk@uoregon.edu
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
Email: bfarr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5201
Office: 470 Willamette Hall
Scott Fisher
Astronomy Lecturer and Outreach Dir
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: rsf@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4799
Office: 103C Klamath Hall
Raymond Frey
Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: rayfrey@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5873
Office: 462 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Astrophysics, gravitational waves
Laura Jeanty
Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: ljeanty@uoregon.edu
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
Email: kribs@uoregon.edu
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
Email: smajewsk@uoregon.edu
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
Email: mcmorran@uoregon.edu
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
Email: kxn@uoregon.edu
Office: 172 Willamette
Research Interests: electron microscopy, ptychography, magnetism, topology
Jens Noeckel
Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, OMQ, Physics
Email: noeckel@uoregon.edu
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
Email: raghu@uoregon.edu
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
Email: jpaulose@uoregon.edu
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
Email: scannell@uoregon.edu
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
Email: rmss@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4783
Office: B2 Volcanology
Research Interests: Gravitational Waves/structural biophysics
James Schombert
Professor
College Scholars, Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: jschombe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5214
Office: 461 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: observational cosmology, dark matter, galaxy evolution
Brian Smith
Professor
OMQ Director
OMQ, Physics
Email: bjsmith@uoregon.edu
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
Email: dsteck@uoregon.edu
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
Email: dstrom@uoregon.edu
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
Email: rpt@uoregon.edu
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
Email: torrence@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4618
Office: 418 Willamette Hall
Hailin Wang
Professor
Alec and Kay Keith Chair in Physics
OMQ, Physics
Email: hailin@uoregon.edu
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
Email: djw34@uoregon.edu
Phone: 3035068896
Office: 261 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: High-resolution atomic spectroscopy, quantum information, quantum-limited metrology
Tien-Tien Yu
Associate Professor
Physics
Email: tientien@uoregon.edu
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
Email: nzhelev@uoregon.edu
Office: Willamette 160
Research Interests: Superconducting Quantum Circuits, Quantum Computing Hardware