Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
Andre C. Barato
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Würzburg
[email protected]
713-743-3023
Office: Science & Research 1, 627
Kevin E. Bassler
Moores Professor of Physics and Mathematics
Department Chair
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Complex Systems and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
[email protected]
713-743-3568
Office: Science & Research 1, 619C
Rene Bellwied
M.D. Anderson Chair Professor
Ph.D., Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
[email protected]
713-743-3548
Office: Science & Research 1, 406A
Edgar Bering
Professor
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley
[email protected]
713-743-3543
Office: Science & Research 1, 530D
Eric Bittner
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
[email protected]
832-316-0381 (Mobile)
Office: Science & Research 1, 620
Shuo Chen
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Boston College
[email protected]
713-743-9135
Office: Science & Research 1, 510F
Xiao-Jia Chen
M.D. Anderson Professor
Ph.D., Zhejiang University, China
[email protected]
713-743-2250
Office: Houston Science Center, 342
Daniel Cherdack
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Tufts University
[email protected]
Office: Science & Research 1, 406B
Paul C. W. Chu
Professor of Physics, T. L. L. Temple Chair of Science, and Founding Director & Chief Scientist, Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
[email protected]
713-743-8222
Office: Houston Science Center, 262
Wei-Kan Chu
Cullen University Professor
Ph.D., Physics, Baylor University
Ion Beam, Ion Implantation, Rutherford Backscattering, Channeling, Radiation Damage, High Temperature Superconductor Applications, Levitation Bearings, Semiconductor Doping
[email protected]
713-743-8252
Office: Houston Science Center, 114
Seamus Curran
Professor and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin
[email protected]
Office: Science & Research 1, 525
Mini Das
Moores Professor
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Medical Imaging Physics, Inverse Problems, Optical and Radiological Imaging, Image Science, Psychophysics, Image Perception, Optics and Electromagnetics in Medicine and Biology, Biophysics
[email protected]
713-743-3539
Office: Science & Research 1, 419B
Liangzi Deng
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston
[email protected]
713-743-3728
Office: Houston Science Center, 264
Wenqing Fan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stony Brook University
[email protected]
Office: Science & Research 1, 632
Byron Freelon
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
[email protected]
Office: Science & Research 1, 419F
Gemunu Gunaratne
Moores Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Genetic Networks, Physics and Genetic Diseases, Principal Components Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Chaos, Bifurcations
[email protected]
713-743-3534
Office: Science & Research 1, 633
Pavan Hosur
Associate Professor
Post Doc, Stanford University, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
[email protected]
713-743-1033
Office: Houston Science Center, 307
Liming Li
Professor
Ph.D., Caltech
[email protected]
713-743-3283
Office: Science & Research 1, 530C
John Miller
Professor
Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Phenomena, Electron Transport, Superconductivity, Charge Density Waves, Biophysics, Biosensors
[email protected]
713-743-8257
Office: Houston Science Center, 318
Rubem Mondaini
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
[email protected]
832-338-7605 (mobile)
Office: Houston Science Center, 340
Greg Morrison
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, Physics
[email protected]
713-743-9344
Office: Science & Research 1, 629D
Carlos R. Ordonez
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Quantum Field Theory, Effective Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, String Theory, Black Hole Thermodynamics, Conformal Quantum Mechanics and Applications
[email protected]
713-743-3586
Office: Science & Research 1, 627B
Michał Papaj
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Claudia Ratti
M.D. Anderson Professor
Ph.D., Physics, University of Torino (Italy)
[email protected]
713-743-7250
Office: Science & Research 1, 627E
Zhifeng Ren
Paul C. W. Chu and May P. Chern Endowed Chair in Condensed Matter Physics
Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences
[email protected]
713-743-8217
Office: Houston Science Center, 466
Andrew Renshaw
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
[email protected]
713-743-0925
Office: Science & Research 1, 406B
Donna Stokes
Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston
[email protected]
713-743-3588
Office: Science & Research 1, 531C
Wu-Pei Su
Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
[email protected]
713-743-8280
Office: Houston Science Center, 313
Anthony Timmins
Professor
Ph.D., High Energy Nuclear Physics, University of Birmingham
[email protected]
713-743-3554
Office: Science & Research 1, 406C
Chin-Sen Ting
Distinguished Professor of Physics
Ph.D., California at San Diego
[email protected]
713-743-8275
Office: Houston Science Center, 312
Oomman K. Varghese
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Nanostructured Materials, Excitonic Solar Cells, Solar Fuel Generation, Environmental Sensing
[email protected]
713-743-3808
Office: Science & Research 1, 515E
Volodymyr Vovchenko
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
[email protected]
713-743-4328
Office: Science & Research 1, 629C
Arthur Weglein
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair; Director, Mission-Oriented Seismic Research Program
Ph.D., CCNY/CUNY/City University of New York, Graduate Center
[email protected]
713-743-3848
Office: Science & Research 1, 617
Lisa Whitehead Koerner
Professor
Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Experimental Particle Physics, Neutrinos, Neutrino Oscillations
[email protected]
713-743-3502
Office: Science & Research 1, 406A
Lowell Wood
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
[email protected]
713-743-3560
Office: Science & Research 1, 512B