Faculty

Physics Department Faculty, April 2019

Physics Department Faculty, April 2019

Aram Apyan
Aram Apyan
Assistant Professor of Physics
781-736-2806 Abelson 350

Expertise: Experimental particle physics: precision tests of the electroweak sector of standard model of particle physics and search of new physics beyond the standard model

Aparna Baskaran
Aparna Baskaran
Professor of Physics
781-736-2866 Abelson 306

Expertise: Condensed matter theory; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; emergent phenomena such as phase transitions and pattern formation in far-from-equilibrium complex fluids including granular materials, self-propelled particles and other active materials

Bulbul Chakraborty
Bulbul Chakraborty
Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics
781-736-2843 Abelson 345/346

Expertise: Condensed matter theory, especially systems far from equilibrium; jamming and flow in non-thermal systems including dense suspensions, granular and glassy solids and biological tissues

James Cho
James Cho
Professor of Physics
Abelson 313

Expertise: Astrophysical-geophysical fluid dynamics, atmospheric and climate dynamics; extrasolar planets and planetary science; vortex dynamics and turbulence; numerical methods; mathematical physics

Guillaume Duclos
Guillaume Duclos
Assistant Professor of Physics
Abelson 222

Expertise: Active matter, soft condensed matter, biophysics, collective cell behaviors

Seth Fraden
Seth Fraden
Professor of Physics
781-736-2888 Abelson 214

Expertise: Complex fluids; interparticle interactions and phase transitions in colloidal suspensions; entropy driven disorder-to-order transitions; physics of protein crystallization and the development of microfluidic-based, high-throughout crystallization devices

Michael Hagan
Michael Hagan
Professor of Physics and of Quantitative Biology
781-736-2845 Abelson 312

Expertise: Application of statistical mechanics, modern computational techniques, machine learning tools, and theory to problems in biology and condensed matter physics; assembly of viral capsids and other large protein complexes; pattern formation in collections of internally driven particles; effects of molecular chirality on large-scale structure.

Matthew Headrick
Matthew Headrick
Professor of Physics
Graduate Advising Head
781-736-2858 Abelson 323

Expertise: String theory and related areas of quantum field theory, general relativity and geometry; elliptic numerical relativity; quantum information theory and its relation to holography and quantum gravity

Jané Kondev
Jané Kondev
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics
781-736-2812 Abelson 301

Expertise: Condensed matter theory and quantitative biology; application of condensed matter physics models to problems in molecular and cell biology such as regulation of gene expression and chromosome structure

Albion Lawrence
Albion Lawrence
Professor of Physics
781-736-2865 Abelson 344

Expertise: Quantum field theory; string theory and their applications to particle physics, cosmology and quantum gravity; interface between theoretical physics and mathematics, especially algebraic geometry; application of quantum field theory to condensed matter physics

W. Benjamin Rogers
W. Benjamin Rogers
Associate Professor of Physics
Chair, Program in Biological Physics
781-736-2857 Abelson 221

Expertise: Soft matter and biological physics; programmable self-assembly of soft materials; colloidal interactions and phase transitions; DNA nanotechnology and DNA origami; active matter

Gabriella Sciolla
Gabriella Sciolla
Chair
Professor of Physics
781-736-2841 Abelson 347

Expertise: Experimental high-energy physics group; measurement of Higgs boson properties; searches for physics beyond the Standard Model; Dark Matter searches at the LHC; construction and commissioning of silicon detectors (ATLAS ITk); reconstruction and calibration of tracks and muons in the ATLAS detector.

For chair-related emails, please use physicschair@brandeis.edu

For other emails, please use sciolla@brandeis.edu

Brian Swingle
Brian Swingle
Associate Professor of Physics
Abelson 329

Expertise: Physics of quantum information, especially in the interface between condensed matter physics, quantum information science, and gravity and holography

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Hannah Yevick
Assistant Professor of Physics
781-736-2875 Abelson 326

Expertise: Mechanics of cell and tissue development, collective behaviors in living systems

Teaching Faculty

Richard N. Fell
Richard N. Fell
Senior Lecturer in Physics
781-736-2860 Abelson 311
Peter Mistark
Peter Mistark
Senior Lecturer in Physics
781-736-2815 Abelson 314
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Emily Tiberi
Senior Lecturer in Physics
Undergraduate Advising Head
781-736-3160 Abelson 349

Affiliated Faculty

Zvonimir Dogic
Zvonimir Dogic
Associate Research Professor of Physics

Expertise: Complex fluids and biological physics; understanding and controlling the self-assembly of matter on a colloidal length scale; assembly, phase transitions and dynamics of colloidal systems under nonequilibrium conditions

Sally Warner
Sally Warner
Assistant Professor of Climate Science and Physics
Rabb Graduate Center, 373

Expertise: Climate science, physical oceanography, turbulence and mixing, estuarine and coastal fluid dynamics

Sally Warner is a physical oceanographer who studies how water moves and mixes in the ocean. She is particularly interested in connecting the small, fast motions of turbulence to decadal-scale, global processes like El Niño and climate change. She has spent many months living and working on oceanographic research vessels in places like the equatorial Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. As an educator, she aims to teach climate science and oceanography in ways that highlight local case studies to motivate the underlying science.

Emeritus Faculty

James R. Bensinger
James R. Bensinger
Research Professor; Professor Emeritus of Physics

Expertise: Interactions of fundamental particles at the highest possible energy. Development and operation of the Atlas Experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN with the Brandeis experimental high-energy physics group.

Craig A. Blocker
Craig A. Blocker
Professor Emeritus of Physics
781-736-2879 Abelson 310

Expertise: High-energy proton-proton collisions in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, properties of the Higgs boson, search for new physics beyond the Standard Model, including lepton-flavor violation, excited leptons, and left-right symmetric models

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Marcus T. Grisaru
Professor Emeritus of Physics
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Lawrence E. Kirsch
Professor Emeritus of Physics

Expertise: Experimental high-energy physics

Robert V. Lange
Professor Emeritus of Physics and Adjunct Professor in the Heller School

Expertise: K-12 science and environmental education, teacher training, curriculum research

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David H. Roberts
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics

Expertise: Galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, radio astronomy, theoretical astrophysics

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Howard J. Schnitzer
Edward & Gertrude Swartz Professor of Theoretical Physics

Expertise: Quantum field theory, conformal field theory and the theory of strings; testing M-theory by comparison of its predictions with known results of N=2 Seiberg-Witten supersymmetric gauge theories

John Wardle
John F.C. Wardle
Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics
781-736-2889 Abelson 328

Expertise: Astrophysics group. Polarization-sensitive observations of extragalactic radio sources, using the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Observations of X-ray–emitting jets in quasars with the Chandra Observatory.

In Memoriam

Stephen Berko
Stephen Berko
Professor Emeritus of Physics
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Stanley Deser
Professor Emeritus of Physics

Expertise: Quantum theory of fields, elementary particles, gravitation, supergravity, strings

Peter Heller
Professor Emeritus of Physics
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Robert B. Meyer
Professor Emeritus of Physics
781-736-2870 Abelson 216

Expertise: Liquid crystals, colloids, polymers

Hugh N. Pendleton III
Professor Emeritus of Physics
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Alfred G. Redfield
Professor Emeritus of Physics, Biochemistry, and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center
Silvan S. Schweber
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Hermann F. Wellenstein
Professor Emeritus of Physics