Research Opportunities in Physics & Astronomy
Research in the Physics and Astronomy department is grouped into subfields: astrophysics, cosmology, quantum physics, and plasma and space physics. Explore each of these groups here. These faculty regularly have undergraduate researchers in their labs.
Astrophysics
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- Brian Charles Chaboyer
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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- Aaron L. Dotter
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Research Associate Professor
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- Robert A. Fesen
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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- Ryan Hickox
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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- Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil
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Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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- Elisabeth Newton
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Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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- John R. Thorstensen
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
President, MDM Observatory Corporation
Plasma and Space Physics
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- Richard Denton
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Research Professor
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- James William LaBelle
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Lois L. Rodgers Professor
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- Yi-Hsin Liu
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Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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- Kristina Anne Lynch
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Undergraduate Advisor
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- John Lyon
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Research Professor
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- Robyn M. Millan
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Margaret Anne and Edward Leede '49 Distinguished Professorship
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- Hans Mueller
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Research Professor
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- Sarah J. Rogers
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Pat and John Rosenwald Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Quantum and Condensed Matter Physics
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- Miles P. Blencowe
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Eleanor and A. Kelvin Smith Distinguished Professor in Physics
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- Rufus Boyack
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Assistant Professor
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- Chandrasekhar Ramanathan
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry
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- Alex Rimberg
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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- Lorenza Viola
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James Frank Family Professor of Physics
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- James Daniel Whitfield
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Associate Professor of Physics
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- Kevin Wright
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Associate Professor of Physics
Gravitational Quantum Physics
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- Miles P. Blencowe
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Eleanor and A. Kelvin Smith Distinguished Professor in Physics
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- Lorenza Viola
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James Frank Family Professor of Physics
Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
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- Robert R. Caldwell
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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- Marcelo Gleiser
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Appleton Professorship of Natural Philosophy
