Physics and Astronomy Full-Time Faculty
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M. Shammer Abdeen Lecturer, Physics Office: 1 Park Place, Room 431 Phone (Office): (404)413-6076 Email: mabdeen [at] gsu.edu Research Areas: Multiwavelength galactic morphological studies and Physics Education Research (PER) |
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Vadym Apalkov Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6016 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: apalkov [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Condensed matter physics |
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Fabien Baron Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6087 Email: baron [at] astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Image reconstruction from interferometry |
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Amin Bayat Barooni Lecturer, Physics Office: 1 Park Place, Room 426 Phone: (404)413-6009 Email: abayatbarooni1 [at] gsu.edu Research Areas: Physics Education Research (PER) |
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Misty Bentz Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6082 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: bentz [at] astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Active galaxies and quasars; Black hole mass |
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Yang-Ting Chien Assistant Professor, Physics Email: ytchien [at] gsu.edu Research Areas: Theoretical High Energy and Nuclear Physics |
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Megan Connors Associate Professor, Physics Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: mconnors [at] 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 [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Active galaxies and quasars; UV and X-ray spectroscopy |
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Mukesh Dhamala Professor, Physics Undergraduate Director Phone (Office): (404)413-6043 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: mdhamala [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Biophysics and Brain Sciences |
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Sumith Doluweera Principal Senior Lecturer, Physics Phone (Office): (404) 413-6074 Email: ddoluweera [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Physics of strongly correlated electron systems, Physics education and Medical imaging. |
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Zineb Felfli Visiting Lecturer, Physics Phone (Office): — Email: zfelfli [at] gsu.edu Research Areas: — |
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Douglas R. Gies Regents’ Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6021 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: gies [at] astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Be star phenomena, hot stars and stellar wind |
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Idan Ginsburg Academic Professional, Astronomy Phone (Office): 404-413-6254 Email: iginsburg [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Astrobiology, Dynamics, including black holes, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets, via observations as well as computational and theoretical studies |
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Gary Hastings Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6055 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: ghastings [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Biophysics |
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Xiaochun He Regents’ Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6051 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: xhe [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] 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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Tingting Liu Assistant Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404)413-6023 Email: tliu20 [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: supermassive black hole binaries, active galactic nuclei, time domain astronomy, multi-messenger astrophysics, pulsar timing arrays, gravitational waves |
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Sebastien Lepine Professor, Astronomy Department Chair Phone (Office): (404)413-6020 Email: slepine [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Solar Physics, Solar-Stellar Connection |
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Jeremy Maune Senior Lecturer, Physics Office: 1 Park place (Room 426) Phone: 404-413-6095 Email: maune [at] astro.gsu.edu Research Areas: AGN, micro variability in blazars and Seyfert galaxies |
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Ben Q. McGimsey Principal Lecturer, Astronomy Astronomy Undergraduate Advisor Office: 1 Park Place (Room 430) Phone (Office): (404) 413-6075 Email: mcgimsey [at] gsu.edu |
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Unil Perera Regents’ Professor, Physics Phone (Office): (404)413-6037 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: uperera [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Condensed matter, Semiconductor optoelectonics, Nano sensors |
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Deepak Raghavan Professor of Practice, Astronomy Office: 25 Park Place – Room 624 Phone: 404-413-6044 Email: raghavan [at] astro.gsu.edu |
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Justin Robinson Lecturer, Physics & Astronomy Affiliate Director, GA Space Grant Consortium Phone (Office): (404)413-6080 Email: jrobinson138 [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Cosmic Distance Ladder, Active Galactic Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes |
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Viacheslav (Slava) Sadykov Assistant Professor, Astronomy Phone (Office): (404) 413-5480 Email: vsadykov [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Solar physics and Space Weather |
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Murad Sarsour Professor, Physics Physics Graduate Director Phone (Office): (404)413-6077 Email: msar [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Experimental nuclear physics |
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Talwinder Singh Assistant Professor, Physics Phone (Office): 404-413-6079 Email: tsingh14 [at] gsu.edu Web: — Research Areas: Space Weather, Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Physics, Solar Flares, Magnetohydrodynamics |
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Mehmet (Fatih) Tasar Academic Professional, Astronomy Phone (Office): — Email: mtasar [at] gsu.edu Web: — Research Areas: — |
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Brian D. Thoms Associate Professor, Physics Associate Chair Phone (Office): (404)413-6045 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: bthoms [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Physics Education Research (PER) and Surface Science |
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Russel White Professor, Astronomy Astronomy Graduate Director Phone (Office): (404)413-6018 Fax: (404)413-6025 Email: white [at] astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Planet formation, fundamental stellar properties |
Joint Faculty
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Rafal A. Angryk Department of Computer Science Atlanta, GA 30302-5060 Phone (Office): (404) 413-5729 Email: rangryk [at] 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 [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Biophysics, Dynamic Neuroscience |
Adjunct Faculty
| Merida Batiste Email: batiste [at] gsu.edu Research Areas: Active Galactic Nuclei |
Theo ten Brummelaar Former Director of the CHARA Array Phone: (626)796-8607 Email:theo [at] gsu.edu |
Ian Ferguson Dean of Engineering Kennesaw State University 840 Polytechnic Ln, Marietta, GA 30060 Phone (Office): (470) 578-3883 Email: ifergus3 [at] kennesaw.edu Web: — |
| Manolis K. Georgoulis Office: 1 Park Place, Room 715 Email: manolis.georgoulis [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Research Area: Solar Physics, Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Space Weather |
Brian Kloppenborg Executive Director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers Email: bkloppenborg [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Optical interferometry of stars and novae; high performance computing; GPU computing |
Jane Pratt Email: jpratt7 [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Computational Astrophysics; Computational Plasma Physics |
| Stephen T. Ridgway Phone (Office): (502)318-8297 Email: ridgway [at] noao.edu |
Brant Johnson Phone: 912-495-8427 Email: brant [at] bnl.gov Consulting Email: brantmjc [at] gmail.com Research Areas: Nuclear Physics |
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 [at] avs.org |
| Hsiao-Ling Zhou Email: zhou [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page |
Emeritus Faculty
| Donald Edwards Regents’ Professor Department of Neuroscience Phone (Office): (404)413-5394 Fax: (404)413-5446 Email: dedwards [at] gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Biophysics, Dynamic Neuroscience |
Frank Hsu Phone (Office): (404)463-9918 Email: fhsu [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Research Areas: Position Annihilation |
Harold A. McAlister Phone (Office): (404)413-5484 Email: hal [at] chara.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Optical arrays, speckle interferometry, stellar masses |
| H. Richard Miller Phone (Office): (404)413-6023 Email: miller [at] astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research Areas: Microvariability in active galactic nuclei extragalactic astronomy |
James E. Purcell Email: JpurJim [at] 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 [at] phy-astr.gsu.edu Web: Home Page |
| John Wilson Senior Academic Professional, Lecturer, Astronomy Phone: 404-413-6035 Email: wilson [at] astro.gsu.edu Web: Home Page Research: binary stars, education |
David W. Wingert Phone (Office): (404)413-6019 Email: wingert [at] astro.gsu.edu Research Areas: Interstellar medium, stellar evolution |