Professors
Jonathan A. Bagger: (Chairman of the
Department): Princeton University Ph.D. (1983).
Particle theory; theory and phenomenology of supersymmetry, supergravity
and superstrings.
Bruce A. Barnett: University of Maryland - College Park
Ph.D. (1970).
Experimental high-energy physics; hadron colliders.
Steven
V.W. Beckwith (Director, STScI): Caltech Ph.D. (1978)
Experimental astrophysics; circumstellar matter, astronomical
instrumentation.
Barry J.
Blumenfeld: Columbia University Ph.D. (1974)
Experimental high-energy physics; neutrino physics, hadron
colliders.
Collin L.
Broholm University of Copenhagen Ph.D. (1988)
Experimental condensed matter physics, using neutron scattering.
Chia-Ling Chien
(Director, MRSEC):
Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. (1972)
Experimental condensed matter physics; nanostructured solids.
Chih-Yung Chien:
Yale University Ph.D. (1966)
Experimental high-energy physics; hadron colliders.
Gabor Domokos:
Dubna University Ph.D. (1963)
Theoretical high-energy physics, astro-particle physics.
Adam Falk: Harvard
University Ph.D. (1991)
Theoretical high-energy physics; interactions, bound states and decays of
heavy quarks.
Paul D. Feldman: Columbia University
Ph.D. (1964)
Experimental astrophysics; spectroscopy, space physics, planetary
and cometary atmospheres.
Holland Ford (P.I.,
ACS): University of Wisconsin - Madison Ph.D. (1970)
Experimental astrophysics; stellar dynamics, stellar populations, active
galactic nuclei and astronomical instrumentation.
Timothy Heckman: (Director,
CAS): University of Washington Ph.D. (1978)
Experimental astrophysics; active galaxies and quasars.
Richard C. Henry
(Director, MSGC): Princeton University Ph.D. (1967)
Astronomy and astrophysics.
Chung W. Kim
(on leave: President, KIAS): Indiana
University Ph.D. (1963)
Theory of elementary particles, nuclear theory, cosmology.
Susan Kövesi-Domokos:
Eötvös Lorànd University Ph.D. (1963)
Theoretical high-energy physics; astro-particle theory.
Julian H. Krolik:
University of California - Berkeley Ph.D. (1977)
Theoretical astrophysics; galactic nuclei, high energy
astrophysics.
Yung Keun Lee:
Columbia University Ph.D. (1961).
Experimental nuclear physics; relativistic heavy ion physics.
Warren Moos (P.I.,
FUSE): University of Michigan Ph.D. (1962)
Experimental astrophysics and plasma physics.
David A. Neufeld:
Harvard University Ph.D. (1987)
Theoretical astrophysics; interstellar medium, astrophysical
masers.
Colin A. Norman:
Oxford University D. Phil. (1973)
Theoretical and observational astrophysics.
Daniel H. Reich:
University of Chicago Ph.D. (1988)
Experimental condensed matter physics; magnetism and superconductivity in
low-dimensional systems.
Mark O. Robbins: University of
California - Berkeley Ph.D. (1983)
Theoretical condensed matter physics; non-equilibrium processes,
atomic origins of macroscopic phenomena.
Raman Sundrum: Yale
University Ph.D. (1990)
Particle theory: higher dimensional theories, supersymmetric theories,
physics beyond the standard model.
Morris
Swartz: University of Chicago Ph.D. (1983)
Experimental high-energy physics; precision tests of and
searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.
Alexander S. Szalay:
Eötvös Lorànd University Ph.D. (1975)
Theoretical astrophysics; galaxy formation.
Zlatko Tesanovic
(Director, TIPAC):
University of Minnesota Ph.D. (1985)
Theoretical condensed matter physics; many-body theory, high-Tc
superconductors.
Ethan T. Vishniac: Harvard
University Ph.D. (1980)
Theoretical astrophysics; cosmology, magnetohydrodynamics, accretion
disk dynamics.
Rosemary F.G. Wyse:
Cambridge University Ph.D. (1982)
Astrophysics; galaxy formation and evolution.
Assistant Professors
Karl
Glazebrook: University of Edinburgh Ph.D. (1992)
Astronomy and astrophysics; galaxy formation and evolution
David Kaplan: University of Washingtoin Ph.D. (1999)
Theoretical high-energy physics; quantum field theory
Robert Leheny:
University of Chicago Ph.D. (1997)
Experimental condensed matter physics; disordered materials, soft matter.
Petar Maksimovic:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. (1998)
Experimental high-energy physics; hadron colliders.
Nina Markovic: University
of Minnesota Ph.D. (1998)
Experimental condensed matter physics; nanoscience; superconductivity
Oleg Tchernyshyov: Columbia University Ph.D. (1998)
Theoretical condensed matter physics
Jack Morava (Professor of Mathematics): Rice University Ph.D.
(1969)
Algebraic topology, mathematical physics.
Darrell
F. Strobel (Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences): Harvard
University Ph.D. (1969)
Planetary atmospheres and astrophysics.
Research Professors
Riccardo Giacconi: University
of Milan Ph.D. (1954)
Experimental astrophysics; extragalactic astronomy, the early Universe.
William Blair:
University of Michigan Ph.D. (1981)
Experimental astrophysics; supernova remnants, cataclysmic variable stars.
Associate Research Professor
Zlatan Tsvetanov: Ph.D. ()
Experimental astrophysics.
Adjunct Professors
Ronald J. Allen
(STScI): Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. (1967)
Observational astronomy; structure of galaxies, physics of the
interstellar medium, interferometry and imaging in astronomy.
Michael Fall
(STScI): Oxford University D. Phil. (1976)
Astrophysics.
Michael Hauser
(Deputy Director,
STScI): Caltech Ph.D. (1967)
Infrared and submillimeter astronomy; interplanetary and interstellar
medium; cosmology.
Mario Livio (STScI):
Tel Aviv University Ph.D. (1978)
Theoretical astrophysics; accretion onto black holes, neutron stars
and white dwarfs; supernova explosions, active galactic nuclei, planetary
nebulae.
Knox Long
(STScI): Caltech Ph.D. (1976)
Experimental astrophysics; cataclysmic variables, galactic and
extragalactic supernova remnants, X-ray properties of normal galaxies,
space-based instrumentation.
Bruce Margon
(STScI): University of California - Berkeley Ph.D.
(1973)
High-energy astrophysics, space astronomy.
Richard
Mushotzky (GSFC): University of California - San Diego
Ph.D. (1976)
X-ray astronomy; active galactic nuclei, clusters of
galaxies, elliptical galaxies; evolution of the elements and
cosmology.
Robert Williams
(STScI): University of Wisconsin - Madison
Ph.D. (1965)
Observational astronomy; Novae, distant galaxies, spectroscopy,
emission nebulae.
Insu Yi (KIAS):
University of Texas - Austin Ph.D. (1992)
Theoretical astrophysics; black holes.
Adjunct Associate Professors
Gerald A. Kriss
(STScI): Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. (1982)
Extragalactic observational astronomy (quasars, active galaxies, galaxy
clusters).
Marc Postman (STScI):
Harvard University Ph.D. (1986)
Astrophysics; morphology and dynamics of groups and clusters of galaxies,
formation and evolution of large scale structure of the universe, scientific
database systems.
Roeland P. van der Marel
(STScI): Leiden University Ph.D. (1994)
Extragalactic observational and theoretical astronomy; Galaxy Structure,
Dynamics and Formation; Black Holes.
Adjunct Assistant Professors
Sasha
Dukan (Goucher College): Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (1996)
Theoretical condensed matter physics; superconductors.
Kimberly Weaver
(GSFC): University of Maryland - College Park
Ph.D. (1993)
Experimental astrophysics; X-ray spectroscopy and imaging studies of AGN
and starburst galaxies.
Visiting Professor
Michael Finkenthal (Hebrew
University): Hebrew University Ph.D. (1977)
Experimental plasma physics.
Robert Wagner (Fermilab):
Harvard University Ph.D. (1978)
Experimental particle physics.
Professors Emeritus
Gordon Feldman:
University of Birmingham Ph.D. (1953)
Quantum field theory and theory of elementary particles; atomic
theory.
Thomas Fulton:
Harvard University Ph.D. (1954)
Theoretical high-energy physics; quantum electrodynamics, atomic
theory.
Brian R. Judd:
Oxford University D. Phil. (1955)
Theoretical atomic and molecular physics, group theory, solid state
theory.
Aihud Pevsner: Columbia
University Ph.D. (1954)
Experimental high energy physics.
James C. Walker: Princeton
University Ph.D. (1961)
Experimental condensed matter physics; thin films and surfaces, nuclear physics.
Abbreviations
CAS = Center for Astrophysical Sciences
MRSEC = Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
STScI = Space Telescope Science Institute
TIPAC = Theoretical Interdisciplinary Physics and Astrophysics Center
ACS = Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys
FUSE = Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
GSFC = NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
MSGC = Maryland Space Grant Consortium
KIAS = Korea Institute for Advanced Study