Physics and Astronomy Full-Time Faculty
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Vadym Apalkov Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6016 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: apalkov@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Condensed matter physics |
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Fabien Baron Associate Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6087 Email: baron@astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Image reconstruction from interferometry |
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Misty Bentz Associate Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6082 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: bentz@astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Active galaxies and quasars; Black hole mass |
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Megan Connors Assistant Professor, Physics Phone (Office): TBD Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: mconnors@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: High energy nuclear physics |
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D. Michael Crenshaw Distinguished University Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6036 Email: crenshaw@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Active galaxies and quasars; UV and X-ray spectroscopy |
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Mukesh Dhamala Associate Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6043 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: mdhamala@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Biophysics and Brain Sciences |
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Sumith Doluweera Senior Lecturer, Physics Phone (Office): (404) 413-6074 Email: doluweera@phy-astr.gsu.edu Research Areas: Physics of strongly correlated electron systems, Physics education and Medical imaging. |
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John Evans Senior Lecturer, Physics Phone (Office): (404) 413-6076 Email: jevans@phy-astr.gsu.edu Research Areas: Physics Education & Innovative Instruction |
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Douglas R. Gies Regents’ Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6021 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: gies@astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Be star phenomena, hot stars and stellar wind |
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Gary Hastings Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6055 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: ghastings@gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Biophysics |
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Xiaochun He Distinguished University Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6051 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: xhe@gsu.edu Web: Nuclear Physics Group Research Areas: High energy nuclear physics |
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Todd J. Henry Distinguished University Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6054 Email: thenry@astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Nearby stars, stellar masses and life in the universe |
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Stuart Jefferies Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6017 Email: sjefferies@gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Seismology of the Sun and giant planets; space weather; high-resolution imaging; image restoration; space situational awareness |
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Joshua von Korff Assistant Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6009 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: jvonkorff@gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Physics education |
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Alexander Kozhanov Assistant Professor, Physics Phone: (404)413-6084 Email: akozhanov@gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Condensed Matter Physics |
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Sidong Lei Assistant Professor, Physics Office: 456 Science Annex Phone: (404)413-6104 Email: slei@gsu.edu Web: Research Areas: Condensed Matter Physics |
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Sebastien Lepine Professor, Astronomy Department Chair Phone (Office): (404)413-6020 Email: slepine@astro.gsu.edu Research Areas: Large astronomical surveys, archives, and catalogs; Astro-informatics and data mining; Nearby and low-mass stars; White dwarfs; Exoplanet surveys; Optical spectroscopy and stellar classification; Stellar kinematics and Galactic structure |
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Ramesh Mani Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6007 Email: rmani@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Research, Home Page Research Areas: Condensed matter physics |
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Steven T. Manson Regents’ Professor, Physics Fellow, American Physical Society Phone (Office): (404)413-6046 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: manson@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Atomic and molecular structure and collisions |
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Piet Martens Professor, Astronomy Phone(Office): (404)413-6612 Fax: (404)413-5481 Email: martens@astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Solar Physics, Solar-Stellar Connection |
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Jeremy Maune Lecturer, Physics Office: 1 Park place (Room 426) Phone: 404-413-6095 Email: maune@astro.gsu.edu Research Areas: AGN, micro variability in blazars and Seyfert galaxies |
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Ben Q. McGimsey Senior Lecturer, Astronomy Astronomy Undergraduate Advisor Office: 1 Park Place (Room 429) Phone (Office): (404)413-6026 Email: mcgimsey@astro.gsu.edu |
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Jane Pratt Assistant Professor, Astronomy Email: jpratt7@gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Computational Astrophysics; Computational Plasma Physics |
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Unil Perera Regents’ Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6037 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: uperera@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Condensed matter, Semiconductor optoelectonics, Nano sensors |
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Murad Sarsour Associate Professor, Physics Physics Graduate Director Phone (Office): (404)413-6077 Email: msar@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Experimental nuclear physics |
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Mark Stockman Regents’ Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6038 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: mstockman@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Theory of nanoplasmonics, nonlinear, coherent, ultrafast and ultrastrong field phenomena in nanooptics |
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Brian D. Thoms Associate Professor, Physics Associate Chair & Physics Undergraduate Advisor Phone (Office): (404)413-6045 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: bthoms@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Physics Education Research (PER) and Surface Science |
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Ruili Wang Senior Lecturer, Physics Phone (Office): (404) 413-6080 Email: rwang3@gsu.edu Research Areas: Biophysics, Physics Education and Innovative Instruction |
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Russel White Professor, Astronomy Astronomy Graduate Director Phone (Office): (404)413-6018 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: white@astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Planet formation, fundamental stellar properties |
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John Wilson Senior Academic Professional, Lecturer, Astronomy Phone: 404-413-6035 Email: wilson@astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research: binary stars, education |
Visiting Faculty
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Dr. Manolis K. Georgoulis Visiting Research Professor, Astronomy Office: 1 Park Place, Room 715 Email: manolis.georgoulis@phy-astr.gsu.edu Research Area: Solar Physics, Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Space Weather |
Joint Faculty
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Dr. Rafal A. Angryk Department of Computer Science Atlanta, GA 30302-5060 Phone (Office): (404) 413-5729 Email: rangryk@gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Area: Astroinformatics, Solar Data Mining, Big Data |
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Gennady Cymbalyuk Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience Phone (Office): (404)413-6001 Email: gcymbalyuk@gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Biophysics, Dynamic Neuroscience |
| Brant Johnson Phone: 912-495-8427 Email: brant@bnl.gov Consulting Email:brantmjc@gmail.com Research Areas: Nuclear Physics |
Emeritus Faculty
| Donald Edwards Regents’ Professor Department of Neuroscience Phone (Office): (404)413-5394 Fax: (404)413-5446 Email: dedwards@gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Biophysics, Dynamic Neuroscience |
Frank Hsu Phone (Office): (404)463-9918 Email: fhsu@phy-astr.gsu.edu Research Areas: Position Annihilation |
Harold A. McAlister Phone (Office): (404)413-5484 Email: hal@chara.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Optical arrays, speckle interferometry, stellar masses |
| H. Richard Miller Phone (Office): (404)413-6023 Email: miller@astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Microvariability in active galactic nuclei extragalactic astronomy |
James E. Purcell Email: JpurJim@comcast.net Research Areas: Theoretical nuclear physics, nuclear data compilation and evaluation at TUNL |
Carl Rod Nave Author of Hyperphysics Phone (Office): (404)413-6050 Email: rodnave@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page |
| David W. Wingert Phone (Office): (404)413-6019 Email: wingert@astro.gsu.edu Research Areas: Interstellar medium, stellar evolution |
Adjunct Faculty
| Merida Batiste Email: batiste@astro.gsu.edu Research Areas: Active Galactic Nuclei |
Zineb Felfli Email: zineb@phy-astr.gsu.edu |
Ian Ferguson Dean Engineering & Computing Missouri University of Science & Technology 305 McNutt Hall ROLLA MO 65409 USA Phone (Office): (573)341-4778 Email: ianf@mst.edu Web: Home Page |
| Brian Kloppenborg Email: bkloppenborg@chara.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Optical interferometry of stars and novae; high performance computing; GPU computing |
Deepak Raghavan Office: 25 Park Place – Room 624 Phone: 404-413-6044 Email: raghavan@astro.gsu.edu |
Stephen T. Ridgway Phone (Office): (502)318-8297 Email: ridgway@noao.edu |
| Theo ten Brummelaar Director of the CHARA Array Phone: (626)796-8607 Email:theo@chara-array.org |
Michael D. Williams Professor and Director of the Center of Excellence in Microelectronics and Photonics Department of Physics Clark Atlanta University 223 James P Brawley Dr. SW Atlanta, GA 30314 Phone: 404-880-6258 Email:michael_williams@avs.org |
Hsiao-Ling Zhou Email: zhou@phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page |