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Department Head

Chary Rangacharyulu
Professor
Office: Physics Rm 158
Phone: 966-6412

Faculty

Adam Bourassa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: Physics Rm. 253
Phone: 966-1418
Specializations:

 Atmospheric Physics, Remote Sensing


Mike Bradley
Associate Professor
Office: Physics
Phone:
Specializations:

Currently on leave from the Dept.

Plasma Materials Processing


Gap Soo Chang
Assistant Professor
Office: Physics Rm 161
Phone: 966-2768
Specializations:

Spintronics, Organic Thin Film Devices, Synchrotron-radiation X-ray Spectroscopy


Doug Degenstein
Professor
Office: Physics Rm 266
Phone: 966-6447
Rainer Dick, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: Physics 256
Phone: 966-6443
Specializations:

Theoretical Physics, Particle Astrophysics


Masoud Ghezelbash
Assistant Professor
Office: Physics Rm. 67
Phone: 966-6424
Akira Hirose, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Professor, CRC (T1)
Office: Physics 66
Phone: 966-6414
Specializations:

Plasma Physics


Josef Hormes
Office: Canadian Light Source
Phone: 657-3600
Glenn Hussey, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: Physics 257
Phone: 966-6442
Sasha Koustov , M.Sc., Ph.D.
Professor
Office: Physics 258
Phone: 966-6426
Specializations:

Space Physics and Radio Physics


Kathryn McWilliams, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Assistant Professor
Office: Physics
Phone: 966-6605
Katie Mitchell, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: Physics 156
Phone: 966-6399
Specializations:

Condensed Matter Physics


Alex Moewes, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: Physics 154
Phone: 966-6431
Specializations:

Synchrotron-based spectroscopy at the Canadian Light Source and the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley to study the electronic structure of ultra-hard materials, biomaterials and other complex condensed matter systems.

 

 


Rob Pywell, Ph.D. P.Phys
Professor
Office: Physics Rm 251
Phone: 966-6404
Specializations:

Experimental Subatomic Physics


Andrew Robinson, BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor (Part time)
Office: Physics Rm 156
Phone: 966-6399
Specializations:

Condensed Matter Physics


Andrei Smolyakov, M.S., Ph.D.
Professor
Office: Physics 152
Phone: 966-6432
Specializations:

Physics of plasmas, nonlinear phenomena, turbulence and transport, Low temperature plasmas for material processing


Jean-Pierre St. Maurice, Ph D 1975, Yale University
Professor, CRC
Office: Physics Rm 252
Phone: 966-2906
Specializations:

Ionospheric Physics and near-earth Space Plasmas. This includes the physics of the Aurora Boreales,  global electrodynamics of the ionosphere and a study of the turbulent processes that permeate this medium.

 


Thomas Steele, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Affairs and Professor of Physics & Engineering Physics
Office: Arts 314
Phone: 966-4236
Specializations:

Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics


Kaori Tanaka, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: Physics 157
Phone: 966-6406
Specializations:

Condensed Matter Theory (superconductivity, mesoscopic electron systems, strongly correlated electrons)


John Tse, B.Sc (Hon.), Ph.D
Professor, CRC (T1), Fellow Royal Society Canada
Office: Physics Rm 153
Phone: 966-6410
Specializations:

Materials Design with High Performance Computing. Novel  Phenomena at High Pressure.  Development and Application of Suynchrotron and Neutron Spectroscopic Methods..


Chijin Xiao, B.Sc., M.Sc., Dr.rer.nat.
Professor, Graduate Chair
Office: Physics 65
Phone: 966-6415