Faculty
Alejandro Garcia
Professor
Specialization: Computational fluid mechanics,
statistical mechanics
Office: SCI 245
Phone: 408-924-5244
Email: algarcia@algarcia.org
Gina Quan
Assistant Professor
Specialization: Physics Education Research (PER)
Office: SCI 264
Phone:408-924-5255
Email: gina.quan@sjsu.edu
Christopher Smallwood
Assistant Professor
Specialization: Experimental optics and
condensed matter physics
Office: SCI 248
Phone: 408-924-5270
Email: christopher.smallwood@sjsu.edu
Kassahun Betre
Assistant Professor
Specialization: High Energy Theory, Quantum Gravity
Email: kassahun.betre@sjsu.edu
Cassandra Paul
Associate Professor
Specialization: Physics Education Research, Astronomy
Office: SCI 248
Phone: 408-924-5228
Email: cassandra.paul@sjsu.edu
Neil Switz
Associate Professor
Specialization: Optical microscopy and medical diagnostics
Office: SCI 310
Phone:408-924-5252
Email: neil.switz@sjsu.edu
Curtis Asplund
Assistant Professor
Specialization: High energy theoretical physics; entanglement entropy and complexity
of quantum field theories and black
holes; applications of gauge/gravity duality to condensed matter systems
Email: curtis.asplund@sjsu.edu
Thomas Madura
Assistant Professor
Specialization: Astrophysics; astronomy education for
blind and visually impaired persons
Office: SCI 312
Phone: 408-924-5268
Email: thomas.madura@sjsu.edu
Peter Beyersdorf
Professor and Graduate Advisor
Specialization: Gravitational wave detection,
precision measurements
Office: SCI 235
Phone: 408-924-5236
Email: peter.beyersdorf@sjsu.edu
Monika Kress
Professor and Chair
Specialization: Astrophysics, astrobiology
Office: SCI 148
Phone: 408-924-5210
Email: monika.kress@sjsu.edu
Ranko Heindl
Associate Professor
Specialization: Experimental condensed matter physics
Office: SCI 264
Phone: 408-924-5259
Email: ranko.heindl@sjsu.edu
Aaron Romanowsky
Associate Professor
Specialization: Astrophysics: galaxy formation, dark matter, dynamics
Office: SCI 235
Phone: 408-924-5225
Email: aaron.romanowsky@sjsu.edu
Hilary Hurst
Assistant Professor
Specialization: Condensed matter theory; many-body atomic physics including quantum
feedback control, topological phases
and dissipative quantum systems.
Email: hilary.hurst@sjsu.edu
Ehsan Khatami
Associate Professor
Specialization: Application of machine learning
techniques to complex quantum problems
Office: SCI 312
Phone: 408-924-5235
Email: ehsan.khatami@sjsu.edu
Kenneth Wharton
Professor
Specialization: Plasma physics, laser-plasma
interactions
Office: SCI 308
Phone: 408-924-5257
Email: kenneth.wharton@sjsu.edu
Ramendra Bahuguna
Professor
Specialization: Holography, fingerprint sensors
Office: SCI 245
Phone: 408-924-5245
Email: ramendra.bahuguna@sjsu.edu
Patrick Hamill
Professor Emeritus
Specialization: Atmospheric physics, aerosol physics
Office: SCI 240
Phone: 408-924-5241
Email: patrick.hamill@sjsu.edu
Michael Kaufman
Professor and Dean, College of Science
Specialization: Astrophysics: interstellar medium, infrared/submillimeter observations
Office: SCI 127
Phone: 408-924-4800
Email: michael.kaufman@sjsu.edu
Kiumars Parvin
Professor Emeritus
Specialization: Experimental condensed matter physics
Office: SCI 322
Phone: 408-924-5272
Email: kiumars.parvin@sjsu.edu
Brian Holmes
Professor Emeritus
Specialization: Musical acoustics, sports physics
Email: brian.holmes@sjsu.edu
Carel Boekema
Professor Emeritus
Specialization: Magnetism and superconductivity
in solids, computational condensed matter physics
Email: carolus.boekema@sjsu.edu
Lui Lam
Professor Emeritus
Specialization: Nonlinear physics, liquid crystals
Email: lui.lam@sjsu.edu