Faculty & Staff
Administration
Department Head: Dr. Leigh Smith
Undergraduate Director: Prof. Philip Argyres
Graduate Director: Prof. Rostislav Serota
Full-Time Faculty
Philip C. Argyres
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Physics
404 Geology-Physics Building
For his publications, see his website http://homepages.uc.edu/~argyrepc/ .
For his cv, contact him directly at philip.argyres@uc.edu .
Hulya Atmacan
Asst Professor - Educator (F2), Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Adam J Aurisano
Assistant Professor, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Matthew Bronson Bayliss
Asst Professor, Physics
412 Geology-Physics Building
Research Webpage
Colin A Bischoff
Assoc Professor, Physics
421 Geology-Physics Building
Web page for Cincinnati CMB Group
Dr. Colin Bischoff studies the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to learn about the origin of the universe. The CMB is a relic radiation field that was emitted shortly after the Big Bang. By studying CMB polarization, he hopes to detect a signal of primordial gravitational waves that are predicted by inflation, our leading theory of the conditions that produced the Big Bang. Dr. Bischoff’s efforts span instrumentation, telescope operations, and data analysis. Two currently operating telescopes at the South Pole, BICEP3 and BICEP Array, are currently producing the most sensitive CMB polarization data for this purpose. He is also involved in planning for the future CMB Stage 4 experiment.
C. J. Bolech
Professor, Physics
427 Geology-Physics Building
Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems (SCQS): This includes many-body and quantum-field theories, quantum fluids, integrable systems, quantum information and tensor networks, non-equilibrium transport, mesoscopic systems, ultracold atomic gases and optical lattices, unconventional superconductivity, strongly correlated electrons (e.g., quantum impurities and heavy fermions).
Main interests
Prof. Bolech is an applied mathematical physicist working mainly on the domains of theoretical Atomic-Molecular-Optical and Condensed-Matter&Materials physics (TAMOP and CMMT, respectively). From a technical perspective, his present TAMOP focus is on the use of generalized coherent states, tensor networks and non-linear optimization; while on the CMMT side he is currently focused on bosonization, renormalization and entanglement. His main interest is on SCQS. Strong correlations are one of the main theoretical (viz. computational and mathematical) challenges of current frontier problems in many areas of physics; ranging from condensed-matter to atomic, nuclear and particle physics. For example, strong nonlinear behaviours can be found in numerous systems such as heavy fermions, high-temperature superconductors, organic conductors, or quantum wires and dots (to the study of all of which he has contributed). Bolech's work combines the use and development of different computational and analytic non-perturbative approaches. These are applied to problems like the realization of exotic superconducting states of matter in optical lattices, the interplay of mixed valence and multi-channel Kondo physics in heavy fermions and quantum dots, the quantum tunneling of particles in correlated mesoscopic systems, the dynamics of vortices in quantum condensates, or the sudden expansion of interacting atomic gases.
Joachim Brod
Assoc Professor, Physics
420 Geology-Physics Building
Conor Henderson
Associate Professor, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Philip James Ilten
Assoc Professor, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Paul Derek Justice
Assistant Professor Educator, Physics
427 Geology-Physics Building
I have developed and make use of instructional tools and practices that not only give my students the greatest chance to master physics concepts in the classroom, but also promote that learning with methods that are equitable and inclusive. This includes my being trained in belonging interventions, participating in departmental efforts as a part of APS-IDEA, and leading departmental workshops on these topics.
My teaching at UC has been recognized by the Darwin T. Turner Scholars Breakfast of Champions on multiple occasions, as well as a nomination for the Mrs. A.B. “Dolly” Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching.
I earned my PhD in physics from the University of Pittsburgh, where I received the Myron P. Garfunkel Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award and was nominated for the Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award.
Kay Kinoshita
Professor, Physics
413 Geology-Physics Building
Web Page: http://homepages.uc.edu/~kinoshky/
Kathleen M Koenig
Professor, Physics
417 Geology-Physics Building
Her research interests include the implementation and evaluation of teaching pedagogies that support student success and retention in introductory college-level STEM courses (primary focus is physics), along with the development and evaluation of curriculum that targets K-16 student scientific reasoning abilities. Dr. Koenig’s research has attracted over $8 million from NSF and NIH since 2006, and her published research appears in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals including Science and Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research as well as journals for practicing educators such as Journal of College Science Teaching and Science Scope. She has also received approximately $750,000 to support efforts in K-12 in-service teacher training. She has presented over 30 invited talks at international and national forums along with over 200 contributed talks and posters at national and international forums.
She was named an AAPT Fellow in 2021, inducted into UC's Academy of Teaching Fellows in 2016, a 2013 Ohio Magazine Excellence in Education Honoree, a two time Darwin T. Turner Breakfast of Champions Awardee (2012, 2015) and has been awarded the 2011 Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology at the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning as well as the 2009 Presidential Early Career Achievement Award at the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning.
Andrei B. Kogan
Associate Professor, Physics
422 Geology-Physics Building
Yashar Komijani
Assistant Professor, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Alexandru Maries
Assistant Professor - Educator, Physics
442 Geology-Physics Building
Evgeny Mikheev
Asst Professor, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Condensed matter experiment: quantum devices with oxide superconductors, nanofabrication, cryogenic experiments.
Alan J. Schwartz
Professor, Physics
419 Geology-Physics Building
Rostislav A. Serota
Associate Professor, Graduate Director, Physics
429 Geology-Physics Building
Leigh Morris Smith
Professor and Department Head, Physics
424 Geology-Physics Building
Michael D. Sokoloff
Professor, Physics
411 Geology-Physics Building
Alexandre B. Sousa
Associate Professor, Physics
418 Geology-Physics Building
Alex Sousa is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department with primary research interests on Experimental High-Energy Physics. Prior to coming to the University of Cincinnati in 2012, he earned his Ph.D. from Tufts University, Medford, MA, under the supervision of Jacob Schneps in 2006. He went on to hold positions as post-doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, working with Alfons Weber, and Research Associate at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, working with Gary Feldman. His research work focuses in understanding and measuring the properties of neutrinos, being a member of three US-based long-baseline neutrino experiments, NOvA, DUNE, and MINOS+, that have made and will continue to make the most precise measurements of several neutrino oscillation parameters. Furthermore, they will address fundamental questions about neutrinos that have profound implications in our understanding of Universe evolution, such as whether neutrino interactions violate CP conservation, or how is the ordering of the three neutrino masses structured. Alex Sousa’s research has received major funding support through grants from DOE's HEP program and the SciDAC-4 Computational Science program. He is the recipient of a ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2014), and of a UC College of Arts & Sciences Risisng Star award (2017). He has been awarded three Fermilab Intensity Frontier Fellowships (2013-2014, 2018, 2019) supporting neutrino research at Fermilab and more recently the overall coordination of the installation, commissioning, and operations of the NOvA Test Beam detector and beamline. In teaching, Alex Sousa has championed the use of active learning methods in the Department and served as departmental Teaching & Learning Liaison from 2016 through 2018. He is a 2018 Darwin T. Turner Breakfast of Champions Awardee, and an active member of the Department's Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Hans-Peter Peter Wagner
Professor, Physics
447 Geology-Physics Building
Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and organic molecular beam deposition (OMBD); Semiconductor nanostructures, organic thin films and metal-organic-semiconductor nanostructures including 2D semiconductors; Exciton transition and coherent relaxation dynamics of exitons in hybrid systems using time resolved spectroscopic techniques.
L. C. R. Wijewardhana
Professor, Physics
426 Geology-Physics Building
Graduate Students
Fawaz Saer H Albalawi
Physics
Mohamed RAMADAN Elashri
Graduate Assistant, Physics
Elina Klysheva
Instructor - Adj Ann, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Ben George Kolengowski
Instructor - Adj Ann, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Matthew Thomas Larson
Graduate Assistant, Physics
305 Geology-Physics Building
Alex Edwin Navarre
Post Doc Fellow, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Other Faculty
Iraj Abbasian Shojaei
Instructor - Adjunct, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Davin C Flateau
Instructor - Adjunct Ann, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Amy Negich Girkin
Instructor - Adj Ann, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Elina Klysheva
Instructor - Adj Ann, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Ben George Kolengowski
Instructor - Adj Ann, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Jeff Allan Rodriguez
Instructor - Adj, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
John M Rowe
Instructor - Adjunct Ann, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Post-Doc Fellows/ Research Associates
Simon Pierre-Henri Akar
Research Associate, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Thomas Julian Boettcher
Post Doc Fellow, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Nate Allen Grieser
Post Doc Fellow, Physics
CERN Geology-Physics Building
V Edmund Thomas Hewes
Research Associate, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Sandra Kvedaraite
Physics
Aleksandar Ljepoja
Post Doc Fellow, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Tom Steudtner
Physics
Tarak Nalinkumar Thakore
Post Doc Fellow, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Michael Kent Wilkinson
Post Doc Fellow, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Barbara Susete Yaeggy Alvarez
Post Doc Fellow, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Retired Faculty
Randy A Johnson
Emeritus Faculty, Physics
Graduate degree: Ph.D. in Physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1975
Professional History:
Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1976-1984
Professor, University of Cincinnati, 1984-present
Present Courses: Undergraduate Mechanics and Relativity
Previous Courses: College and General Physics
Modern Physics for Engineers
Advanced Lab for Majors
Graduate Electrodynamics
Graduate Particle Physics
Peter Suranyi
Emeritus Faculty, Physics
EDUCATION
Physics Diploma (approximately equal to M.S.), Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary, 1958 Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (approximately equal to Ph.D.), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, U.S.S.R., 1964
EXPERIENCE
Junior Research Fellow, Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest, Hungary, 1958 61 Research Fellow, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, U.S.S.R., 1961-64 Senior Research Fellow, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, U.S.S.R., 1964-65 Senior Research Fellow, Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest, Hungary, 1965-68 Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, 1969-71 Associate Professor of Physics, University of Cincinnati, 1971-74 Professor of Physics, University of Cincinnati, 1974 Department Head, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, 1995-1998 Professor Emeritus of Physics 2003-
HONORS
Schmidt Award of the Hungarian Physical Society, 1968
Fellow of the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati, 1977
Senior Visiting Fellow, National Research Council, Great Britain, 1978-79
Senior Visiting Fellow, National Reseach and Engineering Council, United Kingdom, 1987-88
Visiting Research Professor, University of Wales, 1994
Senior Fulbright Fellowship, 1998-99
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
1) Symposium "Topics on Quantum Gravity and Beyond," Cincinnati, 1992
2) Meeting of the Ohio Session of the American Physical Society: "Particle Physics in the Nineties and Beyond," Cincinnati, 1992.
3) 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries, Cincinnati, 2003
GRANTS
Continuously funded by the U.S. Department of Eenergy or its from 1975-2003.
PHD DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED IN THE LAST 5 YEARS
Andras Pap, Athula Heart, Ricardo Rademacher, Tsegaye Takele
INVITED LECTURES, COLLOQUIA AND SEMINARS IN THE LAST 5 YEARS
“Simulation of gauge theories in the world line representation,”Physics Department, Universidad Autonoma di Barcelona, Spain, January 1999
“Field theories with an energy current,” Institute of Physics, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, April 1999.
“Models for confinement in QCD” Toronto University, Canada, April 2000.
“Topology, Classical solutions, lattices, and quar
Staff
Sarah Elizabeth Baker
Mgr College Laboratory, Physics
345 Geology-Physics Building
Diane M Bolden
Financial Administrator, Physics
400 Geology-Physics Building
Bethany Dawn Egbers
Business Administrator, Physics
400 Geology-Physics Building
Jay D Ellington
Computer & Info Analyst 2, Physics
Geology-Physics Building
Jaylon Brian Gassett
Custodial Worker-U, Physics
Langsam Library
William H. Leach
Technical Professional II, Physics
345 Braunstein Hall
John S. Markus
Technical Professional II, Physics
206 Geology-Physics Building
Dara L Miller
Program Manager, Physics
400 Geology-Physics Building