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Faculty

Department of Physics

Drexel University Department of Physics features five core research programs including one in astrophysics and cosmology.

Expertise that spans universal phenomena

Faculty experts in Drexel's Department of Physics lead world-class programs of research in five core areas: astrophysics, biophysics, condensed matter, particle physics and physics education research. Students and faculty work side-by-side as they explore a wide span of universal phenomena — including high-performance computing, ultra-low temperature physics, nanotechnology and nonlinear dynamics. Our dedicated faculty mentors provide students across all levels of scholarship with a solid grounding in physical principles, introduce novel approaches to problem solving, teach mathematical and computational skills, as well as provide broad experimental training.

Meet Our Faculty Emeriti


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Professor; Associate Dean – Graduate Education in College of Arts and Sciences; Associate Editor – Physical Review Physics Education Research
Disque Hall, #918
eb573@drexel.edu
215.895.2779
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Physics Education Research; Social Network Analysis; Modeling Instruction

Associate Professor; Associate Head for Undergraduate Studies
Disque Hall 912
ccruz@drexel.edu
215.895.2739
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Spiking Neural Networks; Synchronization in the firings of Neuronal Networks; Micro/Minicolumns in the brain; Brain Plasticity; Traveling Waves in Low Dimensional Neuronal Networks; Spatial correlations of neurons in the brain; Confinement effects on the folding of amyloidogenic proteins

Professor
Disque Hall 707
dinardoj@drexel.edu
215.895.2790
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Physics education research, surface physics, condensed matter physics, materials science.

Professor
Disque Hall, room 913
dolinski@drexel.edu
215.895.6860
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Particle physics; Nuclear physics; Neutrino physics; Neutrinoless double beta decay; Detector R&D

Professor
Disque Hall, room 922
fferrone@drexel.edu
215.895.2778
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Sickle cell; protein self-assembly theory; molecular crowding; novel optical methods; microscopy; kinetics

Professor; Department Head, Physics
Disque Hall 815
goldberg@drexel.edu
215.895.2715
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Theoretical and computational cosmology, extragalactic astrophysics, gravitational lensing, popular science writing

Assistant Teaching Professor
Disque 804
jg3845@drexel.edu
215.895.1985
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests

Neutrinos, Cosmology, Muons, Cosmic Rays


Professor; Provost Solutions Fellow Alumni
Disque Hall 609
goran@drexel.edu
215.571.4090
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Experimental Condensed Matter Physics; Quantum Technologies and Quantum Sensing; Scanning Probe Microscopy and Spectroscopy; Mesoscopic Superconductivity and Magnetism; Nanoscale Catalysis

Associate Teaching Professor
Disque Hall, Room 904
kratzer@drexel.edu
215.895.6669
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Quasars, Active Galactic Nuclei, Radio Astronomy, Active Learning Techniques

Professor
Disque Hall, 914
naoko@drexel.edu
215.895.2725
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Particle Astrophysics; Neutrino Astronomy; High Energy Physics and Astronomy

Professor
Disque Hall 911
charles.e.lane@drexel.edu
215.895.1545
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Experimental tests of invariance principles and conservation laws, neutrino oscillations and properties

Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Start Talking Science
Disque Hall, 807
love@drexel.edu
215.571.3699
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Astroparticle physics, neutrino physics and astronomy, citizen science, science communication, physics education, outreach

Associate Professor
Disque Hall 905
russell.g.neilson@drexel.edu
215.895.2729
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Dark matter, Neutrino physics

Professor; Chair, Faculty Senate Budget, Process, and Development (BP&D) Committee
Disque 812
gordon.t.richards@drexel.edu
215.895.2713
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Quasars, active galactic nuclei, supermassive black holes, galaxy evolution, sky surveys, infrared/X-ray/radio astronomy

Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Affiliated Faculty
LeBow 440
spanier@drexel.edu
215.895.2301
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Light-matter interactions in electronic materials, including ferroelectric semiconductors, complex oxide thin film science; laser spectroscopy, including Raman scattering

Assistant Professor
Disque 805
ns3527@drexel.edu
215.895.2940
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests

Machine learning; Astronomical surveys; Dynamic resource allocation; Transients; Multimessenger astronomy


Associate Department Head for Non-Major Studies, Professor
Disque Hall 806
tyagi@drexel.edu
215.895.6956
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Nanobiophysics, Raman spectroscopy, Magnetic materials

Professor; Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies
3141 Chestnut Street, 12-909,
Philadelphia, PA 19104
bu25@drexel.edu
215.895.2726
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Intrinsically disordered proteins; Biophysics of protein folding and self-assembly relevant to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; Protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions; Discrete and all-atom molecular dynamics; Molecular dynamics force field development

Assistant Professor
906 Disque Hall
bv336@drexel.edu
215.895.1670
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests

Active matter; Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; Thermodynamics of information; Crystal plasticity; Metamaterials; Self/directed assembly


Assistant Professor
Disque Hall, 610
jwv34@drexel.edu
215-895-2714
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests

Theory of quantum materials: topological Insulators, topological semimetals, materials prediction and design, strongly correlated electron materials, complex electronic ordering phenomena, unconventional superconductors


Professor
Disque Hall 811
vogeley@drexel.edu
215.895.2710
Department
  • Department of Physics
Research & Teaching Interests Cosmology, Galaxy formation and evolution, Statistical analysis of large data sets, Active galactic nuclei

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