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  • N. Peter Armitage

    Professor

    • npa@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 309
    • 410-516-0214
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics
    • Education: PhD, Stanford University
  • Jonathan A. Bagger

    Research Professor

    • bagger@jhu.edu
    • 604-222-7353
    • Research Interests: Particle theory; theory and phenomenology of supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstrings
    • Education: PhD, Princeton
  • Ibrahima Bah

    Associate Professor

    • Iboubah@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 463
    • 410-516-4122
    • Research Interests: Theoretical high-energy physics and cosmology, string theory, supergravity, quantum field theory, and holography
    • Education: PhD, University of Michigan
  • Daniel Beller

    Assistant Professor

    • d.a.beller@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 237
    • Research Interests: Theoretical soft matter and biological physics
    • Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  • Charles L. Bennett

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
    Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy
    Gilman Scholar

    • cbennett@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 209
    • 410-516-6177
    • Research Interests: Experimental astrophysics; cosmology; radio/submillimeter/infrared astronomy; astronomical instrumentation
    • Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Emanuele Berti

    Professor

    • berti@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 449
    • 410-516-2535
    • Education: PhD, University of Rome
  • Luciana Bianchi

    Research Professor

    • lbianch1@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 473
    • 410-516-4009
    • Research Interests: Observational Astrophysics; hot stars; stellar populations in nearby galaxies; Ultraviolet space instrumentation; surveys
    • Education: PhD, University of Padua
  • William Blair

    Research Professor

    • wblair@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 149
    • 410-516-8447
    • Research Interests: Experimental astrophysics; supernova remnants; cataclysmic variable stars
    • Education: PhD, University of Michigan
  • Barry J. Blumenfeld

    Research Professor

    • bjb@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 425
    • 410-516-7358
    • Research Interests: Experimental high-energy physics; neutrino physics, hadron colliders
    • Education: PhD, Columbia University
  • Floor Broekgaarden

    Assistant Research Professor

  • Collin L. Broholm

    Gerhard H. Dieke Professor

    • broholm@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 345
    • 410-516-7840
    • Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics, using neutron scattering
    • Education: PhD, University of Copenhagen
  • Brian Camley

    Assistant Professor

    • bcamley@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 243
    • 410-516-7683
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Soft matter in cell biology; Physics of cell motility and sensing; collective motion
    • Education: PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Sean Carroll

    Homewood Professor

    • seancarroll@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 455
    • Research Interests: Quantum mechanics, spacetime, emergence, and complexity
    • Education: PhD, Harvard University
  • Chia-Ling Chien

    Jacob L. Hain Professor

    • clchien@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 307
    • 410-516-8092
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics; nanostructured solids
    • Education: PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University
  • Laszlo Dobos

    Assistant Research Professor

    • ldobos1@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 624
    • 410-516-5786
    • Education: PhD, Eotvos Lorand University
  • Natalia Drichko

    Research Professor

  • Suvi Gezari

    Research Professor

    • sgezari@stsci.edu
    • Bloomberg 145
    • 667-218-6515
    • Research Interests: Supermassive black holes; nuclear transients; UV and optical time domain surveys
    • Education: PhD, Columbia University
  • Andrei Gritsan

    Professor

    • gritsan@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 433
    • 410-516-5070
    • Research Interests: Experimental high-energy physics; colliders
    • Education: PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Timothy Heckman

    Dr. A. Hermann Pfund Professor

    • theckma1@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 217
    • 410-516-7369, 410-516-5454
    • Research Interests: The formation and evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes
    • Education: PhD, University of Washington
  • Richard Conn Henry

    Academy Professor; Director, Maryland Space Grant Consortium

    • henry@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Astronomy and astrophysics
    • Education: PhD, Princeton University
  • Borys Ivanov

    Borys Ivanov

    Visiting Research Professor

    • bivanov1@jh.edu
    • Bloomberg 313
    • Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter physics
    • Education: PhD, Institute of Low Temperature physics, Kharkov, Ukraine
  • Ray Jayawardhana

    Professor and University Provost

    • provost@jhu.edu
    • 265 Garland Hall
    • 410-516-8070
    • Research Interests: Exoplanets; diversity, origins, and evolution of planetary systems; formation of stars and brown dwarfs
    • Education: PhD, Harvard University
  • Marc Kamionkowski

    William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

    • kamion@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 439
    • 410-516-0373
    • Research Interests: Theoretical physics specializing in cosmology and particle physics
    • Education: PhD, University of Chicago
  • David Kaplan

    Professor

    • dkaplan@pha.jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 465
    • 410-516-4708
    • Research Interests: Theoretical particle physics and cosmology
    • Education: PhD, University of Washington
  • Jared Kaplan

    Associate Professor

    • jaredk@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 457
    • 410-516-5464
    • Research Interests: Quantum Gravity, Conformal Field Theory, Machine Learning
    • Education: PhD, Harvard University
  • S.M. Koohpayeh

    Associate Research Professor

  • Julian H. Krolik

    Professor

    • jhk@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 531
    • 410-516-7926
    • Research Interests: Theoretical astrophysics, particularly high-energy and relativistic astrophysics
    • Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Robert Leheny

    Professor and Department Chair

    • leheny@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 353
    • 410-516-6442
    • Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics; disordered materials; soft matter
    • Education: PhD, University of Chicago
  • Nancy Levenson

    Research Professor

    • nlevenson@stsci.edu
    • STScI/Muller Bldg S318A
    • 410-338-6861
    • Research Interests: Active and star-forming galaxies; dust emission and obscuration; X-ray astrophysics
    • Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Yi Li

    Assistant Professor

    • yili.phys@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 339
    • 410-516-6422
    • Research Interests: Condensed Matter Physics Theory
  • Meredith MacGregor

    Assistant Professor

    • mmacgregor@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 509
    • Research Interests: Observational Astronomy, Planet Formation, Exoplanets, Stellar Activity
    • Education: PhD, Harvard University
  • Petar Maksimovic

    Professor

    • petar@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 417
    • 410-516-3819
    • Research Interests: Experimental high-energy physics; hadron colliders
    • Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Tobias Marriage (he/him/his)

    Professor

    • marriage@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 215
    • 410-516-6526
    • Research Interests: Cosmology and astrophysics
    • Education: PhD, Princeton University
  • Stephan McCandliss

    Research Professor and Director, CAS

    • stephan.mccandliss@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 119
    • 410-516-5272
    • Research Interests: Experimental astrophysics; sounding rocket space astronomy in the far UV; physics of the interstellar medium; physical properties of hot stars and their environments; astronomical instrumentation
    • Education: PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Tyrel M. McQueen

    Professor (Department of Chemistry)

    • mcqueen@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 301, NCB 312
    • 410-516-6201
    • Research Interests: Solid state and inorganic chemistry; condensed matter physics
    • Education: Ph. D., Princeton University (2009)
  • Brice Ménard

    Professor

    • menard@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 529
    • 410-516-5743
    • Research Interests: Physics & Machine Learning, Astrophysics
    • Education: PhD, University of Paris
  • Satoru Nakatsuji

    Research Professor

    • snakats1@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 341
    • Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics and spintronics
    • Education: Ph. D., Kyoto University
  • David A. Neufeld

    Professor

    • dneufeld@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 505
    • 410-516-8582
    • Research Interests: Theoretical astrophysics; interstellar medium, astrophysical masers
    • Education: PhD, Harvard University
  • Danielle Norcini

    Assistant Professor

    • dnorcini@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Experimental particle physics; neutrinos and dark matter
    • Education: PhD, Yale University
  • Colin A. Norman

    Professor

    • norman@stsci.edu
    • Bloomberg 521
    • 410-516-7329
    • Research Interests: Theoretical Astrophysics, Observational Astronomy and Large Space Missions (Hubble, Chandra, JWST, AXIS)
    • Education: D.Phil, Oxford University
  • Christopher Overstreet

    Assistant Professor

    • c.overstreet@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 141
    • Research Interests: Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
    • Education: PhD, Stanford University
  • Surjeet Rajendran

    Associate Professor

  • Daniel H. Reich

    Professor

    • reich@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 245
    • 410-516-7899
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics; biological physics
    • Education: PhD, University of Chicago
  • Adam Riess

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Thomas J. Barber Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Nobel Laureate

    • ariess@stsci.edu
    • Bloomberg 207
    • 410-516-4474
    • Research Interests: Observations of physical cosmology, primarily through the use of distance indicators like supernovae; measurements of dark energy and the expansion history of the universe using optical and near-infrared instruments from space and the ground
    • Education: PhD, Harvard University
  • Kevin Schlaufman

    Assistant Professor

    • kschlaufman@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 537
    • 410-516-3295
    • Research Interests: Galactic astronomy and exoplanets
    • Education: PhD, UC Santa Cruz
  • Francesca Serra

    Assistant Professor

    • fserra1@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 237
    • 410-516-0248
    • Research Interests: Soft Matter Physics and Liquid Crystals
    • Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
  • Joseph Silk

    Research Professor and Homewood Professor of Physics and Astronomy

    • jsilk@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 517
    • 410-516-2881
    • Research Interests: Cosmology
    • Education: PhD, Harvard University
  • David Sing

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

    • dsing@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 523
    • Research Interests: Observations of exoplanets, characterizing the physics and chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres, comparative exoplanetology.
    • Education: PhD, University of Arizona
  • Danielle Speller

    Assistant Professor

  • Morris Swartz

    Professor

    • morris@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 427
    • 410-516-5159
    • Research Interests: Experimental high-energy physics; precision tests of and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model
    • Education: PhD, University of Chicago
  • Alexander S. Szalay

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (Director, IDIES)

    • szalay@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 515
    • 410-516-7217
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Theoretical astrophysics; galaxy formation
    • Education: PhD, Etvs Lornd University
  • Oleg Tchernyshyov

    Professor

    • olegt@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 323
    • 410-516-8586
    • Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter physics
    • Education: PhD, Columbia University
  • Ethan Vishniac

    Research Professor

    • evishni1@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 501
    • 410-516-6021
    • Research Interests: Theoretical Astrophysics: magnetized turbulence, dynamos in stars and disks, and magnetic field reconnection and diffusion.
  • Harold A. Weaver, Jr.

    Research Professor (JHU Physics & Astronomy); Principal Professional Staff (JHU-APL)

    • hal.weaver@jhuapl.edu
    • Bloomberg 145, APL 200-E210
    • 443-778-8078
    • Research Interests: Ultraviolet, optical, infrared, X-ray, and radio spectroscopy and imaging of comets, planets, and satellites
    • Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
  • Rosemary F.G. Wyse

    Alumni Centennial Professor

    • wyse@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 513
    • 410-516-5392
    • Research Interests: Astrophysics; galaxy formation and evolution
    • Education: PhD, Cambridge University
  • Nadia Zakamska

    Professor

    • zakamska@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 507
    • 410-516-6657
    • Research Interests: Astronomy and astrophysics
    • Education: PhD, Princeton University
  • Yaojun Zhang

    Assistant Professor

  • Yahui Zhang

    Assistant Professor

    • yzhan566@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 315
    • Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter physics
    • Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Joint Faculty

  • Tamás Budavári (he/him/his)

    Joint – Associate Professor (Department Of Applied Mathematics And Statistics)

    • budavari@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 620
    • 410-516-0643
    • Research Interests: Observational cosmology; large-scale structure, galaxy clustering; galaxy properties and evolution; statistical inference and embedding; data intensive parallel computing
    • Education: PhD, Eotvos Lorand University
  • Ana Damjanovic

    Assistant Research Professor (Department of Biophysics)

    • ad@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 313
    • 410-516-5390
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Charge and energy transfer in biological systems
    • Education: PhD, University of Illinois
  • Gregory Eyink

    Professor (Department Of Applied Mathematics And Statistics)

    • eyink@jhu.edu
    • 206 / Whitehead 100
    • 410-516-7201
    • Research Interests: Research Interests: Mathematical physics; fluid mechanics; turbulence; dynamical systems
    • Education: PhD, Ohio State University (1987)
  • Michael Falk

    Professor (Materials Science And Engineering)

    • mfalk@jhu.edu
    • Maryland Hall 212
    • 410-929-4242
    • Research Interests: Theoretical and computational research
    • Education: PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1998)
  • Nitya Kitchloo

    Professor

    • nitu@math.jhu.edu
    • Krieger 408A
    • 410-516-4321
    • Research Interests: Symplectic geometry, topology of Kac-Moody groups, classical algebraic topology
    • Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Charles Meneveau

    Charles Meneveau

    Louis M. Sardella Professor (Joint Professorship with the Department of Mechanical Engineering)
    Associate Director of the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES)

    • meneveau@jhu.edu
    • Latrobe 127
    • 410-516-7802
    • Research Interests: Theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies in turbulence, Large-eddy-Simulation and turbulence modeling, fractals and scaling in complex systems, Applications of LES to environmental flows, wind energy and turbomachinery flows, Development of database techniques for turbulence research.
    • Education: Ph. D., Yale University
  • Peter Searson

    Professor (Department Of Materials Science And Engineering)

    • searson@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Electronic, Nanophase, And Semiconductor Materials
    • Education: Phd, University Of Manchester Institute Of Science And Technology (1982)
  • Sabine Stanley

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences & Applied Physics Lab

    • sabine@jhu.edu
    • 126 Olin Hall
    • 410-516-5606
    • Research Interests: Planetary interior processes and evolution
    • Education: PhD, Havard University
  • Darrell F. Strobel

    Professor (Department Of Earth And Planetary Sciences)

    • strobel@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Planetary Atmospheres And Astrophysics
    • Education: PhD, Harvard University (1969)
  • Adjunct Faculty

  • Ramesh C. Budhani

    Adjunct Professor

  • Michael Fall

    Adjunct Professor

    • fall@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 617
    • 410-338-4861
    • Research Interests: Astrophysics
    • Education: DPhil, Oxford (1976)
  • Henry Ferguson

    Adjunct Professor (STScI)

    • ferguson@stsci.edu
    • Research Interests: Observational cosmology; galaxy evolution; dwarf galaxies; space astronomy instrumentation; calibration
    • Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
  • Ann Hornschemeier

    Adjunct Assistant Professor (GSFC)

    • ann.h.cardiff@nasa.gov
    • Research Interests: Studies of x-ray emission from star formation in galaxies at cosmologically interesting distances
    • Education: PhD, Penn State University
  • John MacKenty

    Adjunct Professor

  • Peter R. McCullough

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    • pmcc@stsci.edu
    • STScI/Muller Bldg S419
    • 410-338-5068
    • Research Interests: extrasolar planets, astronomy and astrophysics
    • Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Predrag Nikolic

    Adjunct Associate Professor (George Mason University)

    • pnikolic@gmu.edu
    • Bloomberg 313
    • Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter physics
    • Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Cedomir Petrovic

    Adjunct Professor (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

    • petrovic@bnl.gov
    • Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics
    • Education: PhD, Florida State University
  • Roeland P. van der Marel

    Adjunct Professor (STScI)

    • marel@stsci.edu
    • Research Interests: Extragalactic observational and theoretical astronomy; galaxy structure, dynamics, and formation; black holes
    • Education: PhD, Leiden University
  • Emeritus Faculty

  • Bruce Barnett

    Academy Professor

    • bab@jhu.edu
    • 410-516-7382
    • Research Interests: Experimental high energy physics; hadron colliders
    • Education: PhD, University of Maryland
  • Holland Ford

    Professor Emeritus

    • hford@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 217
    • 410-516-5326
    • Research Interests: Experimental astrophysics; stellar dynamics, stellar populations, active galactic nuclei and astronomical instrumentation
    • Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Susan Kovesi-Domokos

    Professor Emerita

    • skd@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 445
    • 410-516-7378
    • Research Interests: Theoretical high-energy physics; astro-particle theory
    • Education: PhD, Eotvos Lorand University
  • H. Warren Moos

    Professor Emeritus

    • hwm@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 153
    • 410-516-7337
    • Research Interests: The interstellar medium; stellar processes; the solar system; space instrumentation
    • Education: PhD, University of Michigan
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