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Faculty

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Paul R. Anderson Keith D. Bonin Eric Carlson David Carroll Forrest T Charnock
Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara. General relativity, quantum field theory, cosmology. Ph.D., University of Maryland. Optical traps, nanoscopic physics, biophysics Ph.D., Harvard. Particle physics and astrophysics.

 

Ph.D., Wesleyan University, Associate Professor. Nanostructures, low-dimensional systems, biotechnology, microscopy.

 

Ph.D., Wake Forest University

Greg Cook Jacquelyn Fetrow Martin Guthold Natalie A. W. Holzwarth William C. Kerr
Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Assistant Professor. General relativity, numerical relativity, black hole coalescence. Ph.D., Penn State. Reynolds Professor of Computational Biophysics. Studies pharmoco-
logically important sites on proteins.
  Ph.D., University of Oregon. Biophysics, single molecule imaging and
manipulation; scanning probe imaging.

 

Ph.D., University of Chicago. Theoretical solid state physics, computer simulations of electronic and structural properties of solids. Ph.D., Cornell University. Theoretical solid state and statistical physics, computer simulation studies of phase transitions, and soliton effects in condensed matter.

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Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro Janna Levin Jed C. Macosko G. Eric Matthews
Fred Salsbury
.Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Biophysics, The use of spectroscopic techniques to study aggregation in biological systems, particularly sickle cell hemoglobin. Ph.D., University of Virginia   Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Chemistry. Mechanics of protein machines. Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Condensed matter physics, experiments and computer simulation of defects and clustering in insulators, high temperature superconductors   Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
Theoretical and computational biophysics, density functional theory
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Richard T. Williams        
Ph.D., Princeton University. Ultrafast optical and electron spectroscopy; laser processing of materials, atomic resolution surface microscopy, synchrotron radiation research, high temperature superconductors        
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Research Faculty

Burak Basu
George M. Holzwarth
Research Professor
K. Burak Ucer
Research Associate Professor
Swati Basu
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University. Biophysics, polymer physics. Ph.D., U. Rochester Ultrafast laser physics and spectroscopy, optical materials. Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Adjunct Faculty

J. Daniel Bourland Peter Santago Tim Miller
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Radiation Oncology Ph.D., North Carolina State University. Adjunct Associate Professor. Medical physics, medical imaging, and tomography. Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, Adjunct Assitant Professor. High energy physics, parallel computing systems.
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Emeritus Faculty

 
Robert W. Brehme George M. Holzwarth Howard W. Shields George P. Williams  
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Professor emeritus. General relativity, field theory, quantum mechanics. Ph.D., Harvard University. Biophysics, polymer physics. Ph.D., Duke University. Solid state physics, biophysics, electron spin resonance studies in irradiated organic solids of biological interest, high temperature super-
conductors, structural phase changes.
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Solid state physics, defects in crystalline materials, ultrafast optical and electron spectroscopy, atomic resolution surface microscopy.  
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Research Associates

Yaojun Du, Materials Simulations

Stacy Knutson, Computational Biophysics

Jiwen Liu, Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials

Manoj Namboothiry, Nanotechnology

Tennille Presley, Biophysics

 

Staff

Eric Chapman, Instructional Resources Manager

Gale Burns, Secretary

Bob Morris , Laboratory Technician

Judy Swicegood , Administrative Coordinator

Ching-Wan Yip , Instructional Technology Analyst

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