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George C. Alexandrakis, Professor ; Ph.D., Princeton, 1968
Solid state experiment; transmission resonance; magneto-acoustic propagation in ferromagnetic metals

Orlando Alvarez, Professor; Ph.D., Harvard, 1979
Theory of elementary particles

Josef Ashkenazi, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1975
Solid state theory; first-principles band structure methods; many-body physics; high-temperature superconductors

Stewart E. Barnes , Professor; Ph.D., University of California-LA, 1972
Solid state theory; many-body theory; superconductivity and magnetism

G. Chris Boynton, Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Miami, 1991
Astrophysics: Stellar Winds and Coronae (Cool Stars), Computational Magnetohydrodynamics, Radiative Transfer

Charley (Sehyo) Choe , Post-Doctoral Fellow; D.Phil, University of Oxford, 2007
Cancer Research (Modelling), Systems Biology, Multi-Agent Systems, Networks

Joshua L. Cohn , Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989
Condensed matter experiment, materials physics, electronic and lattice transport

Thomas L. Curtright, Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1977
Theory of elementary particles

Shepard M. Faber, Professor Emeritus; Ed.D., University of Florida, 1959
Science Education

Massimiliano Galeazzi, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Genova, Italy, 1999
Experimental X-ray Astrophysics, the Diffuse X-ray Background, Cryogenic Microcalorimeters

Ghassan Ghandour, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974.
publications Theory of elementary particles

Howard R. Gordon, Professor; Ph.D., Penn. State, 1965
Optical oceanography; light scattering; radiative transfer; remote sensing

Joshua Gundersen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., UC-Santa Barbara, 1995
Experimental Cosmology; Astrophysics; Cosmic Microwave and Infrared Backgrounds

Joseph Hirschberg, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1952
Experimental Optics, Biophysics

Manuel A. Huerta, Professor; Ph.D., University of Miami, 1970
Statistical mechanics; plasma physics; numerical simulations in MHD

Neil Johnson,Professor; Ph.D., Harvard, 1989

Sakhrat Khizroev, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1999.
Magnetic Recording

Olga Korotkova, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Central Florida, 2003
Physical Optics, Coherence, Polarization, Interraction of Light with Random Media

Christopher P. Kuchinke, Post-Doctoral Fellow; Ph.D., University of Tasmania, Australia, 2002
Remote Sensing, Atmospheric and Ocean Optics, Radiometrics

Dmitri Litvinov, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1999.
Magnetic Recording

Luca Mezincescu, Professor; Ph.D., University of Bucharest, 1978
Theory of elementary particles

William Moore, Adjunct Faculty; Ph.D., University of Miami, 1980
Industrial Research

James Nearing, Associate Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department; Ph.D., Columbia, 1965
Theoretical physics; bifurcation theory in fully nonlinear plasma systems

Rafael I. Nepomechie, Professor; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1982
Theory of elementary particles

William B. Pardo, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern, 1957
Experimental physics; plasma physics; nonlinear dynamics

Arnold Perlmutter, Professor; Ph.D., New York, 1955
Nuclear and particle physics

Harry S. Robertson, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1949
Statistical mechanics; plasma physics; nonlinear dynamics

Carolyne M. Van Vliet, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Free University of Amsterdam, 1956.
Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Stochastic Processes, Quantum Transport in Solids

Kenneth J. Voss, Professor and Chairman of the Department; Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1984
Hydrologic optics; light scattering; atmospheric optics

Hao Zhang, Post-Doctoral Fellow; Ph.D., University of Miami, 2004
Light scattering; Radiative transfer

Fulin Zuo, Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1988
Condensed matter experiment


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