Faculty and Staff CONTACT INFORMATION
Departmental Advisors
- Advisors, B.S. Physics – Bigelow, Dalton, Haglin
- Advisor, B.E.S. Physics – Dalton
- Advisor, Physical Science, Physics Emphasis (teachers) – Williams, Haglin
- Advisors, Pre-Engineering – Dalton, Harlander, Kalia
- Advisors, Nuclear Medicine Technology and the Radiologic Technology programs – All Department Faculty and Reshma Ismail (first point of contact, see contact information below)
Faculty
Undergraduate Faculty Bios and
Graduate Faculty Bios
Matt Bigelow, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science B.S. 1998, Colorado State University; Ph.D. 2004, University of Rochester Specialty: Ultra-slow light propagation, spatial solitons, atom optics, quantum optics, and extreme nonlinear optics. |
Sneh Kalia, Ph.D. Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science Specialty: Theoretical physics |
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Bill Dalton, Ph.D. (On sabbatical Spring 2008)Professor
of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science Specialty: Foundation of electrodynamics |
Russ Lidberg, M.S.Assistant Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science B.S. 1988, University of Nebraska-Omaha; B.S. 2001, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; M.S. 1995 in University of Nevada-Las Vegas; currently working on Ph.D, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities Specialty: Optical spectroscopy |
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Mike Garrity, Ph.D.Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science Specialty: Diagnostic imaging,
health physics, medical physics, nuclear medicine, radiation
oncology |
Zengqiang "John" Liu, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science Specialty: Structures and phase transitions of smectic liquid crystals
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Kevin Haglin, Ph.D.Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science; Chairperson Specialty: Electromagnetic probes, heavy flavor, heavy ion collisions, nuclear (hadronic) matter, nuclear theory, quark gluon plasma |
David Williams, M.S.Assistant Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science Specialty: Astronomy education, variable stars |
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John Harlander, Ph.D.Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science Specialty: Instrumental spectroscopy, optical design |
Maria Womack, Ph.D. (On sabbatical Fall 2007 and Spring 2008) Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering
Science Specialty: Chemical composition
of comets, spectroscopy and imaging of comets |
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Yoshinao Hirai,Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science Specialty: Highly correlated electron systems, high-temperature superconductors, magnetic materials, magnetic susceptometry, VUV & x-ray spectroscopy Email: yhirai@stcloudstate.edu |
Ms. Reshma IsmailGraduate Assistant
Email: isre0701@stcloudstate.edu |
Staff
Linette SimonsonOffice and Administrative Specialist Email: linette@stcloudstate.edu
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Steven ZinsliCollege Laboratory Services Specialist, sets up the physics laboratory equipment Email: szinsli@stcloudstate.edu |
Jim SimonsonCollege Laboratory Services Specialist, Planetarium technical support Email: jasimonson@stcloudstate.edu |
Faculty Emeriti who have retired from the department
Professor Richard SchoenbergerEmail: rjschoenberger@stcloudstate.edu Years of Service at SCSU: 1986-2002 |
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Professor Arnold LesikarEmail: avlesikar@stcloudstate.edu Years of Service at SCSU: 1966-2004 |
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No photos available:Professor Phil YoungnerYears of Service at SCSU: 1949-1982 Professor Ben MooreYears of Service at SCSU: 1960-1982 Professor Alexander McWilliamsYears of Service at SCSU: 1962-1992 |




