Physics Faculty
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, 5203 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5295
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, 1274 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
Research Interests: Biophysics; multicellular organization and bacterial population dynamics; advanced microscopy techniques and computational image analysis.
Jayson Paulose
Associate Professor
Director, MSTC Program
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: jpaulose@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4813
Office: 375 Willamette Hall, 1274 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
Research Interests: Theoretical soft matter physics, biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, metamaterials design
David Reikher
Research Firmware Engineer
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: dreikher@uoregon.edu
Billy Scannell
Instructor
Lower Division Lab Coordinator
Physics
Email: scannell@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5256
Office: 145 Willamette Hall, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
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, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
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, 5203 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5295
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, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
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, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
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, 1274 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
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, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
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, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Hailin Wang
Professor
Alec and Kay Keith Chair in Physics
OMQ, Physics
Email: hailin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4758
Office: 274 Willamette Hall, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
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, 1274 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
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, 1274 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
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
Research Interests: Superconducting Quantum Circuits, Quantum Computing Hardware