Faculty
View the accomplished faculty of the Physics program:
Or view the faculty by research areas:
- Astrophysics and astronomy
- Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
- Biophysics
- Computational and statistical physics
- Fluid Dynamics
- Elementary particles, high-energy physics, string theory, relativity, and nuclear physics
- Materials science, solid state, condensed matter, and low temperature physics
- Mathematical physics
- Photonics, optoelectronics, plasmonics and quantum optics
- Soft condensed matter, and random systems
- Chemical physics
- Quantum computing and information
- Physics education research
- Environmental physics
- Physics and society
Additionally, view our emeritus faculty.
Astrophysics and astronomy

Viviana Acquaviva
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Astrophysics

Luis A. Anchordoqui
Faculty
- Physics
Faculty
- Astrophysics

Keaton Bell
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Jillian M. Bellovary
Assistant Professor
- Physics
Director and Assistant Professor
- Astrophysics

Kelle L. Cruz
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Astrophysics

K. E. Saavik Ford
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Astrophysics

Charles Tsun-Chu Liu
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Astrophysics

Ariyeh H. Maller
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Astrophysics

Desmond B. McKernan
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Astrophysics

Matthew O'Dowd J.
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Astrophysics

Timothy A.D. Paglione
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Astrophysics

Emily Rice
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Astrophysics
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics

Alexander A. Lisyansky
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience
Biophysics

Gregory S. Boutis
Professor
- Physics

Ronald Koder
Professor
- Biology
Professor
- Biochemistry
Professor
- Chemistry
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Lev Murokh
Faculty
- Physics
Faculty
- Nanoscience

Ruth Stark
Distinguished Professor
- Chemistry
Distinguished Professor
- Biology
Distinguished Professor
- Biochemistry
Distinguished Professor
- Physics
Distinguished Professor
- Nanoscience

Min Xu
Associate Professor
- Physics
Computational and statistical physics

Johannes Flick
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Dmitry A. Garanin
Professor
- Physics

Nicolas Giovambattista
Assistant Professor
- Chemistry
Assistant Professor
- Physics
Assistant Professor
- Nanoscience

Joel Koplik
Professor
- Physics

Anatoly Kuklov
Associate Professor
- Physics

Hernan A. Makse
Distinguished Professor
- Physics
Distinguished Professor
- Biology

Vadim Oganesyan
Associate Professor
- Physics

Andrew C. Poje
Professor
- Physics

Tobias Schaefer
Associate Professor
- Physics
Elementary particles, high-energy physics, string theory, relativity, and nuclear physics

Stefan Bathe
Faculty
- Physics

Sultan M. Catto
Professor
- Physics

Ngee-Pong Chang
Professor
- Physics

Ying-Chih Chen
Professor
- Physics

Miguel Fiolhais
Associate Professor
- Physics

Godfrey Gumbs
Distinguished Professor
- Physics
Distinguished Professor
- Nanoscience

Jamal Jalilian-Marian
Professor
- Physics

Daniel N. Kabat
Deputy Executive Officer and Professor
- Physics

Michio Kaku
Professor
- Physics

Dimitra Karabali
Professor
- Physics

Roman Kezerashvili
Faculty
- Physics
Faculty
- Nanoscience

Ramzi R. Khuri
Faculty
- Physics

V. Parameswaran Nair
Distinguished Professor
- Physics

Peter Orland
Faculty
- Physics

Alexios P. Polychronakos
Executive Officer and Professor
- Physics

James L. Popp
Professor
- Physics

Brian C. Tiburzi
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Justin F. Vazquez-Poritz
Associate Professor
- Physics
Materials science, solid state, condensed matter, and low temperature physics

Gregory Aizin
Faculty
- Physics

Robert R. Alfano
Distinguished Professor
- Physics
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology

Timothy Benseman
Assistant Professor
- Physics
Assistant Professor
- Nanoscience

Oleg Berman
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Nanoscience

Gregory S. Boutis
Professor
- Physics

Eugene M. Chudnovsky
Distinguished Professor
- Physics
Distinguished Professor
- Nanoscience

Lev Deych
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Johannes Flick
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Sriram Ganeshan
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Dmitry A. Garanin
Professor
- Physics

Swapan K. Gayen
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Li Ge
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Nanoscience

Azriel Z. Genack
Distinguished Professor
- Physics
Distinguished Professor
- Nanoscience

Nicolas Giovambattista
Assistant Professor
- Chemistry
Assistant Professor
- Physics
Assistant Professor
- Nanoscience

Anshel Gorokhovsky
Faculty
- Physics

Steven Greenbaum
Professor
- Chemistry
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Gabriele Grosso
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Godfrey Gumbs
Distinguished Professor
- Physics
Distinguished Professor
- Nanoscience

Mark Hillery
Professor
- Physics

Roman Kezerashvili
Faculty
- Physics
Faculty
- Nanoscience

German Kolmakov
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Nanoscience

Joel Koplik
Professor
- Physics

Anatoly Kuklov
Associate Professor
- Physics

Igor L. Kuskovsky
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Hyungsik Lim
Associate Professor
- Biology
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Neuroscience

Alexander A. Lisyansky
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Hernan A. Makse
Distinguished Professor
- Physics
Distinguished Professor
- Biology

Eugene Mananga
Associate Professor
- Chemistry
Associate Professor
- Physics

Vinod M. Menon
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Carlos A. Meriles
Faculty
- Physics
Faculty
- Nanoscience

Lev Murokh
Faculty
- Physics
Faculty
- Nanoscience

Mim Lal Nakarmi
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Nanoscience

Vadim Oganesyan
Associate Professor
- Physics

Vladimir Petricevic
Professor
- Physics

Alexander Punnoose
Associate Professor
- Physics

Yuhang Ren
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Viraht Sahni
Professor
- Physics

Karl Sandeman
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Nanoscience

David Schmeltzer
Professor
- Physics

Aidong Shen
Professor
- Physics

Kai Shum
Professor
- Physics

Sophia N. Suarez
Assistant Professor
- Physics
Assistant Professor
- Nanoscience

So Takei
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Maria Tamargo
Distinguished Professor
- Chemistry
Distinguished Professor
- Physics
Distinguished Professor
- Nanoscience

Jiufeng J. Tu
Associate Professor
- Physics

Raymond T. Tung
Faculty
- Physics

Sergey A. Vitkalov
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Alexandre Zaitsev
Professor
- Chemistry
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience
Mathematical physics

Timothy H. Boyer
Professor
- Physics

Andrew F. Douglas
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Mathematics

Carlo Lancellotti
Professor
- Physics

Marcello Lucia
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor
- Mathematics

Andrew C. Poje
Professor
- Physics

Alexios P. Polychronakos
Executive Officer and Professor
- Physics

Viraht Sahni
Professor
- Physics

Tobias Schaefer
Associate Professor
- Physics
Photonics, optoelectronics, plasmonics and quantum optics

Ying-Chih Chen
Professor
- Physics

Gabriele Grosso
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Alexander B. Khanikaev
Faculty
- Physics

Nicolas Madamopoulos
Associate Professor
- Physics

Vinod M. Menon
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Mohammad-Ali Miri
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Yuhang Ren
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience

Aidong Shen
Professor
- Physics

Min Xu
Associate Professor
- Physics
Chemical physics

Yuhang Ren
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience
Quantum computing and information

János A. Bergou
Professor
- Physics

Johannes Flick
Assistant Professor
- Physics

Christopher C. Gerry
Professor
- Physics

Mark Hillery
Professor
- Physics

Vinod M. Menon
Professor
- Physics
Professor
- Nanoscience
Physics education research

Ying-Chih Chen
Professor
- Physics