Faculty and Staff

Department faculty and staff are listed below. The links on the left are to more detailed web pages.

Faculty

Name and Email Position Research Specialty
Max Bonamente Assistant Professor Astrophysics
Lior Burko Assistant Professor General Relativity
Lingze Duan Assistant Professor Optics
Abdalla Elsamadicy Lecturer Solid State
Jack Fix Professor and Dean Astronomy
Don Gregory Professor Optics
Judy Franz Professor (on leave at APS) Solid State
Richard Lieu Professor Astrophysics
James Miller Professor and Chair Solar Physics
Richard Miller Associate Professor Experimental Astrophysics
Bill Paciesas Research Professor Experimental Astrophysics
Andrew Pakhomov Associate Professor Optics/Advanced Propulsion
Rob Preece Associate Research Professor Astrophysics
Seyed Sadeghi Assistant Professor Optics
Carol Strong Lecturer Optics
Yoshi Takahashi Professor Astrophysics
Russel White Assistant Professor Young planets and stars
Gary Zank Professor and Chan Chair Space Physics
Shuang Nan Zhang Research Professor Astrophysics
Coming Fall 08 Assistant Professor Space Physics
Coming Fall 08 Assistant Professor Space Physics
Coming Fall 08 Assistant Professor Space Physics
Coming Fall 08 Assistant Professor Space Physics
Coming Fall 08 Assistant Professor Space Physics
Coming Fall 08 Assistant Professor Space Physics

 

Adjunct Faculty

Name and Email Position Research Specialty
Mian Abbas NASA MSFC Planetary Science
James Baird Professor, Department of Chemistry, UAH Physical Chemistry
Peter Biermann Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (Bonn) Astrophysics
Wes Colley Senior Research Scientist, Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis, UAH Astrophysics, Modelling and Simulation
Melissa McGrath Chief Scientist, Science and Missions Systems Directorate, NASA MSFC Planetary Science
Rob Rice Chief Medical Physicist, Clearview Cancer Center Radiation/Medical Physics
Mohan Sanghadasa   Optics

 

Staff

Name and Email Position
Michael Briggs Research Scientist
David Falconer Research Associate III
Dan O'Halloran AMSTI Physics in Motion Coordinator
Victor Zhan Lab Supervisor
Sharlene "Charlie or Chuck" Bruce Staff Assistant
Dora Wynn Staff Assistant

 

Some Emeritus Faculty

Name and Email Position
Frank Franz President Emeritus

 

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