People

Michael J. Naughton Chairperson and Ferris Professor of Physics 617-552-0635 Higgins Hall 335 naughton@bc.edu Group Website	Experimental condensed matter and materials physics and nanoscale integrated science; nanoscale manipulation of light, for high efficiency photovoltaics, subwavelength waveguides, optical metamedia, and nanoscale coaxial optical microscopy; nanoscale devices for biochemical sensing and neural prostheses; molecular organic superconductivity; magnetometry techniques in large magnetic fields. Support provided by the National Science Foundation, the NIH National Caner Institute, and the W.M. Keck Foundation.
Michael Graf Associate Chairperson and Professor of Physics 617-552-4128 Higgins Hall 230B michael.graf@bc.edu	Experimental condensed-matter physics, including: superconductivity, magnetism, and their correlation in heavy-fermion systems, quantum confinement effects in nanostructured metals and semi-metals; and quantum tunneling of magnetization in Ho3+ ions diluted into LiYF4.
Pradip Bakshi Distinguished Research Professor of Physics 617-552-3585 Higgins Hall 330G pradip.bakshi@bc.edu	Theoretical plasma physics; mathematical physics; quantum field theory; atomic physics; condensed matter physics.
Kevin Bedell Rourke Professor of Physics 617-552-3590 Higgins Hall 230F kevin.bedell@bc.edu	Strongly correlated electron systems; theory of local, marginal and other correlated Fermi liquids; properties of quantum fluids and solids; weak ferromagnetism and co-existence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism.
David Broido Professor of Physics 617-552-3348 Higgins Hall 230C david.broido@bc.edu	Theoretical condensed matter physics with emphasis on the transport properties of novel thermoelectric materials, and on carbon-based structures such as graphene, carbon nanotubes and diamond.
Baldassare Di Bartolo Professor of Physics 617-552-3601 Higgins Hall 330D baldassare.dibartolo@bc.edu Group Website	Solid State Spectroscopy, Flash Photolysis and Molecular Spectroscopy, Photoacoustics, Femtospectroscopy.
Jan Engelbrecht Associate Professor of Physics 617-552-0642 Higgins Hall 330C jan.engelbrecht@bc.edu	Theory of strongly correlated electron systems, including pairing correlations in high-temperature superconductors, Fermi Liquid vs. non-Fermi Liquid metals, local Fermi liquids and the metal-insulator transition.
Ruihua He Assistant Professor of Physics 617-552-0846 Higgins 330N ruihua.he@bc.edu	Experimental studies of correlated electron systems (high-temperature cuprate superconductors and other complex oxides) in forms of bulk single crystals and thin films using various techniques based on synchrotron radiations, mainly, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, resonant soft x-ray scattering, scanning transmission x-ray microscopy, etc..
Andrzej Herczynski Research Associate Professor and Laboratory Director 617-552-3582 Higgins Hall 230D andre.herczynski@bc.edu	Mathematical modeling in fluid dynamics – perturbation methods for compressible flows, thermal processes under reduced gravity, similarity solutions in hydrodynamics. Physics and art – scaling properties and fluid-dynamical effects in Jackson Pollock's poured abstractions.
Gabor Kalman Distinguished Research Professor of Physics 617-552-3581 Higgins Hall 330B gabor.kalman@bc.edu	Strongly coupled Coulomb systems: plasmas, electron liquid in 3 and 2 dimensions; Charged particle layered systems, bilayers; Complex (dusty, colloidal) plasmas; plasma crystals; Dense plasmas; plasma phase transitions; Linear and nonlinear response functions and fluctuation-dissipation theorems.
Krzysztof Kempa Professor of Physics 617-552-3592 Higgins Hall 230E kris.kempa@bc.edu	Electronic and electromagnetic properties of nanostructures. Plasmonics. Metamaterials and coaxial media. Application of nanostructures and nanodevices in optoelectronics, photovoltaics and biotechnology. Computational physics.
Vidya Madhavan Associate Professor of Physics 617-552-6490 Higgins Hall 230H vidya.madhavan@bc.edu Group Website	Experimental studies of correlated electron systems (including cuprates and pnictides) and magnetic systems with low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), spectroscopy (STS) and spin-polarized STM.
Cyril P. Opeil, S.J. Associate Professor of Physics 617-552-8450 Higgins Hall 330J cyril.opeil@bc.edu Group Website	Experimental condensed-matter and nanocomposite thermoelectric material (e.g. Bi₂Te₃, PbTe, Bi_xSb_yHo, FeSb₂) development and characterization. Electronic structure of martensite, shape memory alloys (e.g. Ni₂MnGa, AuZn, V₃Si_1-xM_x). Experimental studies of meteorite formation in collaboration with Specola Vaticana and University of Central Florida. Supported by grants from D.O.E. and D.O.D.
Willie J. Padilla Associate Professor of Physics 617-552-0667 Higgins Hall 330A willie.padilla@bc.edu Group Website	Experimental studies of semiconductors, oxides, strongly correlated electron systems including high Tc superconductors and metamaterials. Experimental methods include far infrared spectroscopy and THz time domain spectroscopy. Investigation of the symmetry of metamaterials and their relation to complex electromagnetic behavior by point group theoretical methods. Computational studies of metamaterial structures at THz and optical frequencies using the finite element method.
Ying Ran Assistant Professor of Physics 617-552-6397 Higgins Hall 330H ying.ran@bc.edu	Quantum condensed matter theory, electronic systems with strong interaction Frustrated magnets, high-Tc superconductors. Topological aspects of condensed matter system such as topological defects and topological band insulators.
Rein Uritam Associate Professor of Physics 617-552-8471 Higgins Hall 230A rein.uritam@bc.edu	Particle phenomenology, current algebra, broken symmetries; foundations of quantum mechanics; non-Western and Medieval scientific traditions; role of history and philosophy of science in physics education; role of science in liberal education; connection between science and religion.
Ziqiang Wang Professor of Physics 617-552-0687 Higgins Hall 330F ziqiang.wang@bc.edu	Theory of correlated electron materials including high temperature superconductors and other complex oxides such as cobaltates and ruthenates. Itinerant and localized magnetism and heavy fermion systems. Quantum spin systems. Unconventional superconductivity. Emergent quantum electronic states and topologically ordered phases of matter. Fractional and integer quantum Hall systems and other mesoscopic systems including graphene.
Stephen Wilson Assistant Professor of Physics 617-552-1038 Higgins Hall 330E stephen.wilson@bc.edu Group Website	Experimental studies of strongly correlated electron systems including high temperature superconducting copper oxide and iron pnictide based systems. Studies of novel magnetic phase behavior in complex oxide materials and quantum critical systems. Experiments probing non Fermi-liquid behavior in magnetic materials. Experimental methods primarily include utilizing neutron scattering and spectroscopic techniques for the study of spin/structural order and dynamics.

Bamandas Basu Adjunct Lecturer 617-552-3879 Higgins 323 bamandas.basu@bc.edu	Theoretical plasma physicist specializing in instabilities and associated transport processes in fusion, space, and astrophysical (in the neighborhood of black holes) plasmas.
Steven Horowitz Adjunct Lecturer 617-552-3879 Higgins 323 steven.horowitz@bc.edu	Theoretical studies of strongly correlated electronic systems. Computational physics and chemistry.