Faculty

Department of Physics

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

Faculty Member	Departments & Centers	Research & Scholarship
Eric Brewe 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
Luis Cruz Cruz 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
N. John DiNardo 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.
Michelle Dolinski 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
Frank A. Ferrone 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
David Goldberg 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
Jesse Goldman Assistant Teaching Professor Disque 804 jg3845@drexel.edu 215.895.1985	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Neutrinos, Cosmology, Muons, Cosmic Rays
Goran Karapetrov 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
Rachael Kratzer 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
Naoko Kurahashi Neilson 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
Charles E. Lane 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
Christina Love Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Start Talking Science Disque Hall, 807 love@drexel.edu 215.571.3699	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Citizen science with Name that Neutrino, Astroparticle physics with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Cosmic ray studies with high-altitude ballooning (HERA), physics education and science communication
Russell Neilson Associate Professor Disque Hall 905 russell.g.neilson@drexel.edu 215.895.2729	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Dark matter, Neutrino physics
Gordon T. Richards 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
Jonathan E. Spanier 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
Niharika Sravan 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
Somdev Tyagi 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
Brigita Urbanc 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
Bryan VanSaders 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
Jörn Venderbos 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
Michael S. Vogeley 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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