Faculty & Staff
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Faculty

Martin Guthold
Department Chair, Professor of Physics
Atomic force and fluorescence microscopy of biological samples, and mechanical properties of biological fibers and molecules
Office: 302 Olin Physical Laboratory | Lab: 213 Olin Physical Laboratory

Timo Thonhauser
Associate Chair, Wright Family Professor of Physics and Director of Center for Functional Materials

Fred Salsbury
Physics Graduate Program Director, Professor of Physics and Scott Family Fellow
Computational and theoretical biophysics, molecular physics, and drug discovery
301A Olin Physical Laboratory | Lab: 305B Olin Physical Laboratory

Paul Anderson
Professor of Physics and MacDonough Family Fellow

Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño
Assistant Professor of Physics
Theoretical and computational astrophysics, gravitational waves produced by extreme mass-ratio inspirals, black hole photon rings, and tests of general relativity
300 Olin Physical Laboratory

Keith Bonin
Professor of Physics and Richard T. Williams Faculty Chair in Physics
Optics, biophysics, and microscopy
Office: 310 Olin Physical Laboratory | Lab: 200 Olin Physical Laboratory

Eric D. Carlson
Associate Professor of Physics

David Carroll
Professor of Physics
Nanostructures, low-dimensional systems, biotechnology, and microscopy
Office: 108A Olin Physical Laboratory | Lab: Nanotechnology Center

Sam Cho
Associate Professor and Shively Family Faculty Fellow
Computational biophysics, protein and RNA folding, biomolecular assembly, molecular machines, and GPU-based programming
301B Olin Physical Laboratory

Greg Cook
Associate Professor of Physics and ZSR Foundation Fellow
Theoretical and computational general relativity, gravitational waves produced by black-hole and neutron-star binaries, and high-accuracy modeling of black holes
304 Olin Physical Laboratory

Jack Dostal
Associate Teaching Professor

Natalie A. W. Holzwarth
Professor of Physics
Theoretical solid state physics, computer simulations of electronic and structural properties of solids
202 Olin Physical Laboratory

Emilie Huffman
Assistant Professor of Physics
Computational condensed matter and lattice field theory
308 Olin Physical Laboratory

Oana D. Jurchescu
Baker Physics Professor
Experimental condensed matter physics, organic and flexible electronics
217 Olin Physical Laboratory | Lab: 209B Olin Physical Laboratory

Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro
Professor of Physics and Harbert Family Distinguished Chair for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship
Experimental and some computational biophysics, nitric oxide, hemoglobin and other heme proteins, blood flow, and Sickle cell and other cardiovascular diseases
208 Olin Physical Laboratory | Lab: 216 Olin Physical Laboratory

Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada
Assistant Professor of Physics
Experimental condensed matter physics
212 Olin Physical Laboratory | Lab: 209A Olin Physical Laboratory

Jed Macosko
Professor of Physics
Mechanics of protein machines
Office: 215 Olin Physical Laboratory | Lab: 213 Olin Physical Laboratory

Melissa Pashayan
Visiting Assistant Professor

Stephen M. Winter
Assistant Professor of Physics

Caitlin Witt
Assistant Professor of Physics
Supermassive black hole binaries, gravitational waves, pulsars, active galactic nuclei, and computational astrophysics
305A Olin Physical Laboratory
Research Faculty

Stephen Baker
Research Assistant Professor


George Holzwarth
Research Professor and Emeritus Professor
Experimental biophysics

Swathi Kadaba
Research Assistant Professor
Experimental Materials Physics, Flexible Electronics

William C. Kerr
Research Professor and Emeritus Professor
Theoretical solid state and statistical physics, computer simulation studies of phase transitions, and soliton effects in condensed matter
202 Olin Physical Laboratory

Rick Matthews
Research Professor of Physics
Condensed matter physics and physics education

Howard W. Shields
Emeritus Professor of Physics
Solid state physics, biophysics, electron spin resonance studies in irradiated organic solids of biological interest, high temperature superconductors, and structural phase changes

K. Burak Üçer
Research Associate Professor
Ultrafast laser physics and spectroscopy, optical materials
305D Olin Physical Laboratory

Affiliate and Adjunct Faculty


J. Daniel Bourland
Professor of Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Engineering

Erin Henslee
Associate Professor of Engineering
Red blood cell electrophysiology, cell separation and patterning, and understanding electrophysiological parameters
455 Vine Street, Bldg 60 South, Room 4511

Lauren E. L. Lowman
Associate Professor of Engineering
Land-atmosphere interactions, hydrometeorology, ecohydrology, remote sensing, fluid dynamics, numerical, and statistical modeling
Wake Downtown 4509

Michael Munley
Professor of Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Engineering
Radiosurgery, lung neoplasms, brain neoplasms, radiotherapy planning, computer-assisted, and trigeminal neuralgia
Wake Forest School of Medicine

Adam R. Hall
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Basic and applied nanobiotechnology
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Research Associates

Angika Bulbul
Postdoctoral Fellow
Optical imaging and quantum optics, incoherent synthetic aperture, digital holography, diffractive optics, classical optics, biomedical optics, optical computing, and image processing
200 Olin Physical Laboratory
- Ph.D. Summa cum Laude
- Jointly supervised in collaboration by Prof. Keith Bonin and Dr. Ajay Kandada
- Publications
- Website
Staff

Eric Chapman
Instructional Resources Manager
Theoretical and computational condensed matter physics
110 Olin Physical Laboratory



