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Jonathan A. Bagger

Research Professor

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Research Interests: Particle theory; theory and phenomenology of supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstrings

Education: PhD, Princeton

Ibrahima Bah

Associate Professor

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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

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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

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Research Interests: Experimental astrophysics; cosmology; radio/submillimeter/infrared astronomy; astronomical instrumentation

Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Luciana Bianchi

Research Professor

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Research Interests: Observational Astrophysics; hot stars; stellar populations in nearby galaxies; Ultraviolet space instrumentation; surveys

Education: PhD, University of Padua

William Blair

Research Professor

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Research Interests: Experimental astrophysics; supernova remnants; cataclysmic variable stars

Education: PhD, University of Michigan

Barry J. Blumenfeld

Research Professor

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Research Interests: Experimental high-energy physics; neutrino physics, hadron colliders

Education: PhD, Columbia University

Collin L. Broholm

Gerhard H. Dieke Professor

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Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics, using neutron scattering

Education: PhD, University of Copenhagen

Brian Camley

Assistant Professor

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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

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Research Interests: Quantum mechanics, spacetime, emergence, and complexity

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Alessandra Corsi

W. H. Miller Professor

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Research Interests: Multi-messenger time-domain astronomy with special focus on gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae, and gravitational waves.

Education: PhD, University of Rome Sapienza

Laszlo Dobos

Assistant Research Professor

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Education: PhD, Eotvos Lorand University

Suvi Gezari

Research Professor

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Research Interests: Supermassive black holes; nuclear transients; UV and optical time domain surveys

Education: PhD, Columbia University

Andrei Gritsan

Professor

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Research Interests: Experimental high-energy physics; colliders

Education: PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder

Timothy Heckman

Dr. A. Hermann Pfund Professor

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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

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Research Interests: Astronomy and astrophysics

Education: PhD, Princeton University

Borys Ivanov

Visiting Research Professor

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Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter physics

Education: PhD, Institute of Low Temperature physics, Kharkov, Ukraine

Ray Jayawardhana

Professor and University Provost

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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

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Research Interests: Theoretical physics specializing in cosmology and particle physics

Education: PhD, University of Chicago

David Kaplan

Professor

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Research Interests: Theoretical particle physics and cosmology

Education: PhD, University of Washington

Jared Kaplan

Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Quantum Gravity, Conformal Field Theory, Machine Learning

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Julian H. Krolik

Professor

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Research Interests: Theoretical astrophysics, particularly high-energy and relativistic astrophysics

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Robert Leheny

Professor and Department Chair

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Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics; disordered materials; soft matter

Education: PhD, University of Chicago

Nancy Levenson

Research Professor

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Research Interests: Active and star-forming galaxies; dust emission and obscuration; X-ray astrophysics

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Yi Li

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Condensed Matter Physics Theory

Meredith MacGregor

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Observational Astronomy, Planet Formation, Exoplanets, Stellar Activity

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Petar Maksimovic

Professor

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Research Interests: Experimental high-energy physics; hadron colliders

Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tobias Marriage (he/him/his)

Professor

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Research Interests: Cosmology and astrophysics

Education: PhD, Princeton University

Stephan McCandliss

Research Professor and Director, CAS

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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)

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Research Interests: Solid state and inorganic chemistry; condensed matter physics

Education: Ph. D., Princeton University (2009)

Brice Ménard

Professor

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Research Interests: Physics & Machine Learning, Astrophysics

Education: PhD, University of Paris

Satoru Nakatsuji

Research Professor

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Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics and spintronics

Education: Ph. D., Kyoto University

David A. Neufeld

Professor

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Research Interests: Theoretical astrophysics; interstellar medium, astrophysical masers

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Danielle Norcini

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Experimental particle physics; neutrinos and dark matter

Education: PhD, Yale University

Colin A. Norman

Professor

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Research Interests: Theoretical Astrophysics, Observational Astronomy and Large Space Missions (Hubble, Chandra, JWST, AXIS)

Education: D.Phil, Oxford University

Gregory Quiroz

Associate Research Professor

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Research Interests: quantum information science, quantum algorithms, quantum characterization and control

Education: PhD, University of Southern California

Adam Riess

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

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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

Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Galactic astronomy and exoplanets

Education: PhD, UC Santa Cruz

Francesca Serra

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Soft Matter Physics and Liquid Crystals

Education: PhD, University of Cambridge

Joseph Silk

Research Professor and Homewood Professor of Physics and Astronomy

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Research Interests: Cosmology

Education: PhD, Harvard University

John Silverman

Research Professor

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Research Interests: observational astrophysics

Education: PhD, University of Virginia

David Sing

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

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Research Interests: Observations of exoplanets, characterizing the physics and chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres, comparative exoplanetology.

Education: PhD, University of Arizona

Alex Sushkov

Research Professor

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Research Interests: quantum tool development

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Morris Swartz

Professor

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Research Interests: Experimental high-energy physics; precision tests of and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model

Education: PhD, University of Chicago

Ethan Vishniac

Research Professor

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Research Interests: Theoretical Astrophysics: magnetized turbulence, dynamos in stars and disks, and magnetic field reconnection and diffusion.

Benjamin D. Wandelt

Professor

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Research Interests: Cosmology, Physics, Astronomy, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and Computing

Education: PhD, Imperial College

Harold A. Weaver, Jr.

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

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Research Interests: Ultraviolet, optical, infrared, X-ray, and radio spectroscopy and imaging of comets, planets, and satellites

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Matthieu Wyart

W. H. Miller Professor

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Research Interests: Wyart’s research encompassed field such as the architecture of allosteric materials, granular and suspension flows, the glass and the yielding transitions. More recently one central focus has been deep learning, in particular data structure and generative models.

Education: PhD, SPEC, CEA Saclay, Paris

Rosemary F.G. Wyse

Alumni Centennial Professor

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Research Interests: Astrophysics; galaxy formation and evolution

Education: PhD, Cambridge University

Yahui Zhang

Assistant Professor

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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)

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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)

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Research Interests: Charge and energy transfer in biological systems

Education: PhD, University of Illinois

Gregory Eyink

Professor (Department Of Applied Mathematics And Statistics)

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Research Interests: Research Interests: Mathematical physics; fluid mechanics; turbulence; dynamical systems

Education: PhD, Ohio State University (1987)

Michael Falk

Professor (Materials Science And Engineering)

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Research Interests: Theoretical and computational research

Education: PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1998)

Nitya Kitchloo

Professor

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Research Interests: Symplectic geometry, topology of Kac-Moody groups, classical algebraic topology

Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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)

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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)

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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

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Research Interests: Planetary interior processes and evolution

Education: PhD, Havard University

Adjunct Faculty

Michael Fall

Adjunct Professor

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Research Interests: Astrophysics

Education: DPhil, Oxford (1976)

Henry Ferguson

Adjunct Professor (STScI)

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Research Interests: Observational cosmology; galaxy evolution; dwarf galaxies; space astronomy instrumentation; calibration

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Ann Hornschemeier

Adjunct Assistant Professor (GSFC)

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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

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Education: PhD, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Peter R. McCullough

Adjunct Associate Professor

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Research Interests: extrasolar planets, astronomy and astrophysics

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Predrag Nikolic

Adjunct Associate Professor (George Mason University)

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Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter physics

Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Roeland P. van der Marel

Adjunct Professor (STScI)

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Research Interests: Extragalactic observational and theoretical astronomy; galaxy structure, dynamics, and formation; black holes

Education: PhD, Leiden University

Emeritus Faculty

Bruce Barnett

Academy Professor

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Research Interests: Experimental high energy physics; hadron colliders

Education: PhD, University of Maryland

Holland Ford

Professor Emeritus

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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

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Research Interests: Theoretical high-energy physics; astro-particle theory

Education: PhD, Eotvos Lorand University

H. Warren Moos

Professor Emeritus

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Research Interests: The interstellar medium; stellar processes; the solar system; space instrumentation

Education: PhD, University of Michigan

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