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School of Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University School of Applied & Engineering Physics
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A & EP Faculty
Donald H. Bilderback   
Adjunct Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Associate Director CHESS
281 Wilson Lab (607) 255-0916
Research Area: x-ray diffraction and absorption, x-ray optics, synchrotron radiation, x-ray detectors
Joel Brock   
Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Director of G-line division of CHESS, Leader of IRG-D on Fundamentals of Energetic Surface Processing
201 Clark Hall (607) 255-9006
Research Area: x-ray diffraction, synchrotron radiation, charge-density waves, thin-film growth and surface processing
Robert A. Buhrman   
John Edson Sweet Professor of Engineering, Applied and Engineering Physics; Vice Provost for Research
211 Clark (607) 255-3732
Research Area: Condensed matter physics, nanomagnetics, electronic materials, nanostructures
Itai Cohen   
Assistant Professor of Physics
508 Clark Hall (607) 255-0815
Research Area: Complex matter physics: colloidal suspensions; biological tissues; Fluid-membrane interfaces
Terrill A. Cool   
Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics
228 Clark (607) 255-4191
Research Area: chemical physics, laser spectroscopy, combustion diagnostics, vacuum ultraviolet photoionization mass spectrometry
Harold G. Craighead   
Charles W. Lake, Jr. Professor of Engineering, Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics; Director, Nanobiotechnology Center
205 Clark (607) 255-8707
Research Area: nanofabrication, physics of ultrasmall solid-state devices and structures, biological nanostructures
Francis J. DiSalvo   
John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science, Chemical and Chemical Biology
102 Baker Laboratory (607) 255-7238
Research Area: synthesis and structure of solid-state materials and their chemical and physical properties
David Erickson   
Assistant Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
240 Upson Hall (607) 342-1799
Research Area: Microfluidics and nanofluidics as applied to optofluidics, biomolecular detection, biologically enabled robotics, nanomedicine, and programmable matter.
Craig J. Fennie   
Assistant Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics
226 Clark Hall (607) 255-6498
Research Area: Computational materials physics, Novel materials for electrical, magnetic, and optical devices by design.
Alexander L. Gaeta   
Professor, Applied and Engineering Physics, Director, Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS)
224 Clark (607) 255-9983
Research Area: nonlinear and quantum optics
Sol M. Gruner   
John L. Wetherill Professor of Physics; Director, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)
162 Clark Hall (607) 255-3441
Research Area: Biological physics; polymer and other soft condensed matter physics; x-ray and synchrotron radiation science; scientific instrumentation and technique development; development of novel x-ray detectors.
David A. Hammer   
J.C. Ward Jr. Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
327 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-3916
Research Area: plasma physics, fusion, gas discharges, high-energy density plasmas
Scott Heinekamp   
Professor of Physics, Mary Pereley Wakeman '23 Professor, Wells College; Adjunct Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Research Area: Structural order in condensed-matter
Melissa A. Hines   
Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology; Director Cornell Center for Materials Research
B-48 Baker Laboratory (607) 255-3040
Research Area: surface physics and chemistry
James R. Houck   
Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy
220 Space Sciences (607) 255-4807
Research Area: Infrared and Optical Astronomy
Michael C. Kelley   
James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
318 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-7425
Research Area: geomagnetic physics
Paul M. Kintner   
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
302 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-5304
Research Area: space physics and engineering
Earl J. Kirkland   
Sr. Research Associate
513 Clark (607) 255-0648
Research Area:
Bruce R. Kusse   
Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics
206 Clark (607) 255-6252
Research Area: high energy density plasma physics
Manfred Lindau   
Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics and Coordinator of the Engineering Physics Cooperative Program
225 Clark Hall (607) 255-5264
Research Area: cellular and molecular biophysics, mechanisms of exocytosis and endocytosis in cell biology
Michal Lipson   
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
411 Phillips Hall (607) 255-7877
Research Area: nanophotonics: optical nanostructures, for short and long interconnect distances.
Richard V.E. Lovelace   
Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics
225 Clark (607) 255-3968, rvl1@cornell.edu
Research Area: plasma physics theory, astrophysics
Paul McEuen   
Professor of Physics
510 Clark Hall (607) 255-5193
Research Area: The science and technology of nanostructures; novel fabrication techniques at the nanometer scale; scanned probe microscopy of nanostructures; assembly and measurement of chemical and biological nanostructures
David A. Muller   
Associate Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Director of Master's of Engineering (MEng) Program in Engineering Physics
274 Clark Hall (607) 255-4065
Research Area: Structure and properties of nanoscale materials, Atomically-engineered materials for energy applications, Atomic resolution electron spectroscopy and microscopy.
Jiwoong Park   
Prof. Assistant
Baker Laboratory, B50A 5-7215
Research Area:
Lois Pollack   
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Applied and Engineering Physics
254 Clark (607) 255-8695
Research Area: Biophysics: RNA folding, electrostatics and DNA, protein conformational dynamics
Clifford R. Pollock   
Ilda and Charles Lee Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
312 Phillips (607) 255-5032
Research Area: lasers, fiber optics, quantum electronics
Dan Ralph   
Professor of Physics
536 Clark Hall (607) 255-9644
Research Area: experimental nanoscale physics
Charles E. Seyler   
Professor and Associate Director, Electrical and Computer Engineering
322 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-4967
Research Area: plasma physics, ionospheric and magnetospheric physics, plasma simulation
David I. Shalloway   
Greater Philadelphia Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
265 Biotech Bldg (607) 254-4896
Research Area: biophysics
Michael O. Thompson   
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
328 Bard Hall (607) 255-4714
Research Area: ultra-low temperature processing of silicon, point defect and impurity diffusion in Si, rapid phase transformations, nonequilibrium thermodynamics of semiconductor materials
Sandip Tiwari   
Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering and Director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastruecture Network (NNIN)
408 Phillips Hall (607) 255-2329
Research Area: small semiconductor devices, circuits, architecture, and underlying fabrication technology
Robert Bruce Van Dover   
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
227 Bard Hall (607) 255-3228
Research Area: Growth and properties of magnetic, dielectric, superconducting, and optical thin films; fabrication and characterization of thin film devices; properties of magnetic and superconducting ceramics; development and use of high throughput synthesis/evaluation experimental strategies
Watt W. Webb   
Samuel B. Eckert Professor in Engineering; Professor of Applied Physics
252 Clark Hall (607) 255-3331
Research Area: Medical multiphoton microscopy endoscopy, cellular and membrane biophysics, molecular mobility, channel molecules and transmembrane signaling, multiphoton microscopy, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, biophysical and biomedical instrumentation development.
Lisa Wickham   
Lecturer
233 Clark Hall (607) 255-5205
Research Area:
Frank Wise   
Professor and Director, Applied and Engineering Physics
210A Clark (607) 255-1184
Research Area: time-resolved optical spectroscopy of condensed matter, generation of ultra-short optical pulses
Chris Xu   
Associate Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics and Director of Graduate Studies
276 Clark Hall (607) 255-1460
Research Area: biomedical imaging, optical instrumentation, and optical communications
Warren R. Zipfel   
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Director of DRBIO
F-15 Clark (607) 255-0663
Research Area: Biomedical Imaging & Instrumentation

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