October 2023 The Physics Department faculty and staff invite you to our Homecoming reception and demo show on Saturday, October 21. We will join the Festival on the Quad again this year. We will have a table near the steps of Wait Chapel. Due to the […]
Dr. Ryan Melvin graduated from the Wake Forest Physics PhD program in 2018. Now he is an Assistant Professor and Principal Data Scientist at the University of Alabama, and the inaugural holder of the Endowed Faculty Scholar for Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning. In […]
Meet Dr. Jiajie Xiao, Wake Forest Physics PhD program class of 2018. Dr. Xiao now works as a machine learning scientist in the biomedical field. In the following interview with Professor Fred Salsbury, Dr. Xiao reflects upon his time at Wake Forest and how the […]
Dr. Andrew Zeidell graduated from the Wake Forest Physics PhD Program in 2020 and is now an AAAS Science and Technology Policy fellow with the National Science Foundation. In the following interview with Professor Fred Salsbury he shares the story of his career path and […]
Congratulations to Professor Ajay Kandada and his team for publishing an article in The Journal of Chemical Physics entitled “Measurement principles for quantum spectroscopy of molecular materials with entangled photons”. Professor Kandada’s research involves the use of ultrafast pulsed lasers to study the optical […]
Meet Dr. Maxim Zalutskiy, Wake Forest Physics PhD program class of 2016. Dr. Zalutskiy now works as a quantitative financial analyst. In this interview with Professor Fred Salsbury, Dr. Zalutskiy shares information about his career path and reflects upon his memories at Wake. Prof. Salsbury: […]
Applications are open for WFU Physics PhD and MS programs! You can apply here Detailed application info for our programs can be found here, and you can check out our research interests. The application deadline is […]
In the following interview we hear from Dr. Louis Keiner, Professor of Physics and Physical Oceanography at Coastal Carolina University, also serving as the interim Dean of the HTC Honors College there. Dr. Keiner was an undergraduate physics major here at WFU and reflects on […]
Ellie Alipour, Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Daniel Kim-Shapiro Ph.D. Thesis: Studies in Blood and Blood Protein Therapeutics Research Focus: Finding a potential antidote for CO poisoning, studying sickle cell disease and introducing a fitting animal model for it, and studying blood clots and treatments for this subject on both […]
Timothy Carlson, graduate physics student, is the lead graduate student in the quantum computing project in the Nanotechnology Center. He has been granted the exciting opportunity to represent the department and the center at the UK Graduate Summer School in Condensed Matter Theory at the […]