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Yale University
P.O. Box 208120
New Haven, CT 06520-8120
Phone: 203-432-3650
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Department of Physics

Faculty and Research Staff List

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Charles Ahn Professor of Applied Physics and Physics - 203-432-6421 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996 Applied Physics Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Personal Web Page
Yoram Alhassid Professor of Physics - 203-432-6922 Ph.D. Hebrew University, 1979 Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Thomas Appelquist Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics - 203-432-6969 Ph.D. Cornell University, 1968 Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics
Grigor Atoian Associate Research Scientist - 203-432-3822 M.S. Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute, 1986 Experimental Particle Physics
Charles Bailyn Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy - 203-432-3022 Deputy Director, Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Ph.D. Harvard University, 1987 Astronomy High-Energy Astrophysics Personal Page
Charles Baltay Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Astronomy - 203-432-3386 Deputy Director, Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Ph.D. Yale University, 1963 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics Astronomy
O. Keith Baker Professor of Physics - 203-432-3374 Ph.D. Stanford University, 1987 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
Sean E. Barrett Professor of Physics and Applied Physics - 203-432-6928 Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1992 Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Applied Physics Center for Quantum Information Physics Personal Web Page
Cornelius Beausang Adjunct Professor of Physics Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1987 Experimental Nuclear Physics
Zvi Berant Visiting Research Scientist - 203-432-5179 Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1975 Experimental Nuclear Physics
Jerzy Blawzdziewicz Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Physics - 203-432-7754 Ph.D., University of Warsaw, Poland Mechanical Engineering Personal Web Page
Sidney Cahn Lecturer & Research Scientist - 203-432-6239 Dir. Elec. Research Support Facility Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1997
Helen Caines Assistant Professor of Physics- 203-432-5831 Ph.D., University of Birmingham, 1996 Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory Personal Web Page
Hui Cao Professor of Applied Physics - 203-432-0683 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997 Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Personal Web Page
Richard Casten rick (at) riviera (dot) physics (dot) yale (dot) edu D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics - 203-432-6174 Ph.D., Yale University, 1967 Nuclear Structure Group
Alexei Chikanian chikanian (at) hepmail (dot) physics (dot) yale (dot) edu Research Scientist - 203-432-3368 Ph.D., P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, 1985 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
Paolo Coppi Professor of Astronomy and Physics - 203-432-3014 Ph.D. Cal. Tech., 1990 Astronomy High-Energy Astrophysics Personal Page
Sarah Demers Assistant Professor of Physics - 203-432-3369 Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2005 Experimental Particle Physics
David DeMille Professor of Physics - 203-432-3833 Director of Graduate Admissions Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1994 Experimental Atomic Physics Center for Quantum Information Physics Personal Web Page
Michel Devoret Frederick W Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics- 203-432-4277 Ph.D, Universite d'Orsay, France, 1982 Applied Physics Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Center for Quantum Information Physics Personal Web Page
Satish Dhawan Senior Research Scientist, Physics- 203-432-3377 Ph.D., University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1984 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
Eric R. Dufresne John J. Lee Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics, 203-432-4351 Ph.D., University of Chicago Mechanical Engineering Personal Web Page
Richard Easther Associate Professor of Physics - 203-432-6959 Ph.D., University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1994 Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics Personal Web Page
Nancy Ellman Associate Research Scientist - 432-1265 Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994 Experimental Astrophysics
Thierry Emonet Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology & Physics - 203-432-3516 Ph.D., University of La Laguna, Spain, 1998 Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Personal Web Page
Evan Finch Associate Research Scientist - 203-432-3360 Ph.D., Yale University, 1999 Experimental Particle Physics
Bonnie Fleming Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics - 203-432-3235 Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002 Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics High Energy Neutrino Physics
George T. Fleming Research Scientist - 203-436-4807 Ph.D., Columbia, 2000 Theoretical Particle Physics Personal web page
Paul Fleury Frederick W Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics, Professor of Physics - 203-432-4220 Ph.D., M.I.T., 1965 Faculty of Engineering Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Moshe Gai Adjunct Professor of Physics - 203-432-5195 Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1980 Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory Personal Web Page
Steven M. Girvin Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics - 203-432-5082 Deputy Provost for Science & Technology Ph.D., Princeton University, 1977 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Applied Physics Center for Quantum Information Physics Personal Web Page
Leonid Glazman Professor of Physics - 203-432-6920 Ph.D., Institute of Low Temperature Physics & Engineering, Ukr. SSR Academy of Sciences, 1982 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Personal Web Page
Walter Goldberger Assistant Professor of Physics - 203-432-6902 Ph.D., Caltech, 2001 Theoretical Particle Physics
Robert Grober grober (at) pantheon (dot) yale (dot) edu Frederick Phineas Rose Professor of Applied Physics and Physics - 203-432-9653 Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1991 Applied Physics Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Martin C. Gutzwiller Adjunct Professor of Physics Ph.D., Kansas, 1953 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Jack Harris Associate Professor of Physics - 203-432-3826 Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 2000 Atomic Physics Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Personal Web Page
John Harris Professor of Physics - 203-432-6106 / 2-3082 Director of Postdoctoral Affairs, Physics Director, Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook, 1978 Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics Personal Web Page
Andreas Heinz Assistant Professor of Physics - 203-432-5616 Ph.D., Technical University of Darmstadt, 1998 Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory Nuclear Structure
Mark Heinz Associate Research Scientist - 203-432-5836 Ph.D., University of Bern, Switzerland, 2005 Experimental Nuclear Physics
Victor E. Henrich vhenrich (at) pantheon (dot) yale (dot) edu Eugene Higgins Professor of Applied Sciences and Professor of Physics - 203-432-4399 Ph.D., Michigan, 1967 Applied Physics Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Personal Page
Jay L. Hirshfield jlh7 (at) pantheon (dot) yale (dot) edu Adjunct Professor of Physics - 203-432-5428 Ph.D., M.I.T., 1960 Beam Physics
Francesco Iachello J. W. Gibbs Professor of Physics - 203-432-6944 Ph.D., M.I.T., 1969 Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Stephen Irons Lecturer in Physics - 203-432-3664 Ph.D., UC Davis, 1996
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Physics - 203-432-2107 Ph.D., M.I.T., 2000 Applied Physics Theoretical Condensed Matter Personal Web Page
Vladimir Issakov Visiting Research Scientist - 631-344-7508 Ph.D., Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Moscow, 1976 Experimental Particle Physics
Henry Kasha Associate Research Scientist in Physics - 203-432-3369 D.Sc., Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., 1960 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
Dmitri Kharzeev Professor Adjunct - 631-344-7231 Ph.D., Moscow State University Theoretical Particle & Nuclear Physics
Dimitri Kusnezov Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Physics- 203-432-6915 Ph.D., Princeton University, 1988 Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Michael LaPointe Reseach Scientist- 203-432-1542 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1990 Experimental Beam Physics
Steve K. Lamoreaux Professor of Physics- 203-432-5276 Ph.D., University of Washington, 1986 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics Atomic Physics Experimental Nuclear Physics Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Karyn Le Hur Associate Professor of Physics- 203-436-8140 Ph.D., Orsay, 1998 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Applied Physics Center for Quantum Information Physics Personal Web Page
Richard D. Majka Senior Research Scientist, Physics - 203-432-3361 Ph.D., Yale University, 1974 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
William J. Marciano Adjunct Professor of Physics Ph.D., New York University, 1957 Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics
Daniel McKinsey Associate Professor of Physics - 203-436-4997 Ph.D, Harvard University, 2002 Atomic/Particle Astrophysics Group Web Page Personal Web Page
Simon Mochrie Professor of Physics and Applied Physics - 203-436-4809 Ph.D., M.I.T., 1985 Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Applied Physics Personal Web Page
Vincent Moncrief Professor of Physics and Mathematics - 203-432-6930 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mathematics & Physics Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1972 Gravitation Physics Mathematics
Daisuke Nagai Assistant Professor of Physics - 203-432-5370 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005 Astrophysics Personal Web Page
Priyamvada Natarajan Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics - 203-436-4833 Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1998 Astronomy Astrophysics Personal Web Page
James Nikkel Associate Research Scientist - 203-432-1594 Ph.D., Kent State University, 2003 Atomic Physics
Jill North Assistant Professor in Philosophy - 203-432-1675 Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2004 Philosophy
Corey O'Hern Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics - 203-432-4258 Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999 Mechanical Engineering Personal Web Page
Peter Parker Professor of Physics - 203-432-3099 Director Undergraduate Studies, Physics Ph.D., Cal. Tech., 1963 Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics
Andrei Poblaguev Visiting Reseach Scientist - 631-344-7508 Ph.D., Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, 1994 Experimental Particle Physics
Daniel E. Prober Professor of Applied Physics and Physics - 203-432-4280 Chairman, Department of Applied Physics Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975 Applied Physics Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Joern Putschke Associate Research Scientist - 203-432-5834 Ph.D., Max-Planck Institute for Physics, 2004 Experimental Nuclear Physics
David Rabinowitz Research Scientist - 203-432-3391 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988 Astrophysics Personal Web Page
Nicholas Read Professor of Physics and Applied Physics - 203-432-5042 Ph.D., London University, 1986 Theoretical Condensed Matter Applied Physics
Liz Rhoades Assistant Professor in MB&B - 203-432-5342 Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2001 Molecular Biophyics & Biochemistry Personal Page
Vladimir Rokhlin Professor of Computer Science & Mathematics, Professor of Physics - 203-432-1278 Ph.D., Rice University, 1983 Computer Science & Mathematics Personal Page
Jack Sandweiss Donner Professor of Physics - 203-432-3358 Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1957 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
Richard Scalzo Associate Research Scientist - 203-432-3385 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004 Experimental Astrophysics Personal Web Page
Robert Schoelkopf rob (dot) schoelkopf (at) yale (dot) edu Professor of Applied Physics and Physics - 203-432-4289 Ph. D., California Institute of Technology, 1995 Applied Physics Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Center for Quantum Information Physics Personal Web Page
Ramamurti Shankar J. R. Huffman Professor of Physics and Applied Physics - 203-432-6917 Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1974 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Applied Physics Personal Web Page
Sergey Shchelkunov Associate Research Scientist - 203-432-1542 Ph.D., Columbia University, 2005 Beam Physics
Witold Skiba Associate Professor of Physics - 203-432-3903 Director of Graduate Studies Ph.D., M.I.T., 1997 Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics
Nikolai Smirnov Research Scientist - 203-432-3006 Ph.D., Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina Experimental Nuclear Physics
A. Douglas Stone Carl A Morse Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics - 203-432-4279 Ph.D., M.I.T., 1983 Applied Physics Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Andrew Szymkowiak Senior Research Scientist of Physics & Astrophysics - 203-432-9854 Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1984 Astrophysics
Paul L. Tipton Professor of Physics - 203-432-3375 Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1987 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
John C. Tully Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Physical & Theoretical Chemistry - 203-432-3934 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1968 Chemistry Applied Physics Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Personal Page
Thomas S. Ullrich Adjunct Professor of Physics - 203-432-5829 Ph.D., Reprechts-Karls Universität in Heidelberg, 1994 Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
C. Megan Urry Israel Munson Professor of Physics & Astronomy - 203-432-5997 Chair, Physics Department Director, Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1984 Astrophysics Astronomy Personal Web Page Interview by the Renaissance Computing Institute [Click Here]
Pieter van Dokkum Professor of Astronomy - 203-432-3019 Ph.D., Groningen, 1999 Astronomy Personal Web Page
Xiao-Jing Wang Professor of Neurobiology and Professor of Psychology - 203-785-6297 Ph.D., University of Brussels, Belgium 1987 Neurobiology Psychology Personal Web Page
Volker Werner Assistant Professor of Physics - 203-432-5194 Ph.D., Cologne, 2004 Experimental Nuclear Physics Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory Nuclear Structure Group
John Wettlaufer Alan M. Bateman Professor of Geophysics and Physics - 203-432-0892 Ph.D. University of Washington, 1991 Geology & Geophysics Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Personal Web Page
Richard Witt Associate Research Scientist - 203-432-5834 Ph.D., Kent State University, 2002 Experimental Nuclear Physics
Michael E. Zeller Henry Ford II Professor of Physics - 203-432-3372 Ph.D., UCLA, 1968 Experimental Elementary Particle Physics

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