Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Master of Science for Teachers, Master of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Ronald Gilman, Physics and Astronomy Building, Busch Campus (848-445-8775, or 8765)

Email: graduate@physics.rutgers.edu

Website: http://www.physics.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Elihu Abrahams, Bernard Serin Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Eva Y. Andrei, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Natan Andrei, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical condensed-matter and particle physics

Andrew Baker, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Observational astrophysics

Thomas Banks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Robert A. Bartynski, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Philip Edward Batson, Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Gyan Bhanot, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cornell
Biological physics

Girsh Blumberg, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Premala Chandra, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara)
Condensed-matter theory

Sang-Wook Cheong, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Experimental condensed-matter physics and materials science

John Paul Chou, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Experimental high-energy physics

Jolie A. Cizewski, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Experimental nuclear physics

Morel Cohen, Distinguished Scientist, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Piers Coleman, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Mark C. Croft, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Rochester
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Thomas J. Devlin, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Experimental elementary particle physics

Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Theoretical high-energy physics

Eugenia Etkina, Associate Professor of Education, GSE; Ph.D., Moscow State Pedagogical
Physics education

Paul G. Falkowski, Professor of Geological Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., British Columbia (Canada)
Biogeochemical cycles; evolution; astrobiology

Leonard C. Feldman, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Daniel Friedan, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Eric Garfunkel, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Experimental surface science

Eric Gawiser, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Observational astrophysics

Michael E. Gershenson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics (Moscow)
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Yuri Gershtein, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology
Experimental high-energy physics

Ronald Gilman, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Experimental nuclear physics

Gerald Goldin, Professor of Mathematics and Physics Education, GSE, Ph.D., Princeton
Mathematical physics; secondary education

Sheldon Goldstein, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Yeshiva
Foundations of quantum mechanics; mathematical physics

Torgny Gustafsson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; D.Sc., Chalmers (Sweden)
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Eva Halkiadakis, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Experimental elementary particle physics

Kristjan Haule, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

B. Jane Hinch, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cambridge
Surface studies using atomic and molecular scattering

John Hughes, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Observational astrophysics

Lev Ioffe, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Moscow)
Condensed-matter theory

Saurabh Jha, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Observational cosmology

Charles L. Joseph, Associate Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Colorado
Observational astronomy and detector development

Mohan S. Kalelkar, Associate Chair and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Experimental elementary particle physics

Charles R. Keeton, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Theoretical astrophysics

Valery Kiryukhin, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Willem M. Kloet, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Utrecht (Netherlands)
Theoretical nuclear physics

Haruo Kojima, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Noémie Koller, Professor Emerita of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Experimental nuclear physics

B. Gabriel Kotliar, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Amitabh Lath, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experimental high-energy physics

Paul L. Leath, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Missouri
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Joel L. Lebowitz, George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Syracuse
Mathematical physics and statistical mechanics

Ronald Levy, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Biophysical chemistry; chemical physics; dynamics of macromolecules

Peter Lindenfeld, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Sergei Lukyanov, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Moscow)
Quantum field theory and statistical mechanics

Terry A. Matilsky, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Observational astrophysics

Aram Z. Mekjian, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Maryland
Theoretical nuclear physics

Gregory Moore, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Theoretical high-energy physics

Alexandre V. Morozov, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Washington
Biological physics

Daniel E. Murnick, Professor of Physics, FAS-N; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experimental nuclear and atomic physics

Herbert Neuberger, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Tel Aviv
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Seongshik Oh, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Wilma K. Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Theoretical studies of nucleic acid structure and properties

Vitaly Podzorov, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Carlton P. Pryor, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Observational astrophysics

Karin Rabe, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical condensed-matter and surface physics

Ronald D. Ransome, Chair and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Experimental nuclear physics

Joseph V. Sak, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Institute of Solid State Physics (Prague, Czech Republic)
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Sevil Salur, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Experimental nuclear physics

Stephen R. Schnetzer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Experimental elementary particle physics

Jeremy Sellwood, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Manchester (UK)
Theoretical astrophysics

Anirvan M. Sengupta, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Bombay
Biological physics

Joel A. Shapiro, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Theoretical elementary particle physics

David Shih, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical particle physics

Avraham Soffer, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Tel Aviv
Theory of partial differential evolution equations; Schrödinger operators and scattering theory; general mathematical physics

Sunil Somalwar, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Experimental particle physics

Rachel Somerville, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D. California (Santa Cruz)
Theoretical astrophysics

Matthew J. Strassler, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Scott Thomas, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Theoretical elementary particle physics

David Vanderbilt, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Alan Van Heuvelen, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Colorado
Physics education

Terence L. Watts, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Experimental elementary particle physics

Theodore Williams, Associate Chair and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Observational astrophysics

Weida Wu, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Emil Yuzbashyan, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Larry Zamick, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical nuclear physics

Alexander Zamolodchikov, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow)
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Harold S. Zapolsky, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Theoretical astrophysics

Frank M. Zimmermann, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Experimental surface-science physics