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Teaching Faculty
(All offices are located in North
Oliver Hall. Area Code is:804)
*Joint appointment with Engineering and Physics
Staff
Physics Faculty
Associate Professor of Physics & Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1991
Telephone: (804) 828-8295 --- email: [aabaski@vcu.edu]
Research interests: Silicon
surface structure and growth
Associate Professor of Physics.
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1976.
Telephone: (804) 828-1819 --- email: [mfbishop@vcu.edu]
Research interests: Charge density
waves, superconductivity, biopolymers.
  Robert H. Gowdy
Associate Professor of Physics and Chair.
Ph.D., Yale University, 1968.
Telephone: (804) 828-1821 --- email: [rhgowdy@vcu.edu]
Research interests: General
relativity and cosmology, Physics education.
 Purusottam
Jena
Professor of Physics.
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1970.
Telephone: (804) 828-8991 --- email: [pjena@vcu.edu]
Research interests: Theory of
electronic structure of metals and alloys, semiconductors, intermetallic compounds, and
insulators, defect complexes, hydrogen in metals, small atomic clusters.
  Shiv.
N. Khanna
Professor of Physics.
Ph.D., University of Delhi, India, 1976.
Telephone: (804) 828-1820 --- email: [snkhanna@saturn.vcu.edu]
Research interests: Theoretical
solid state physics, electronic structure of amorphous metals and alloys, atomic clusters,
quantum Hall effect.
Assistant Professor of Physics.
Ph.D., University of Campinas, Brazil, 1996.
Telephone: (804) 828-1950 --- email: [mmunoz@vcu.edu]
Research interests:
Optical properties semiconductors materials and devices. Epitaxial growth
of III-V and II-VI semiconductor heterostructures.
Associate Professor of Physics.
Ph.D., University of Bucharest, Romania, 1973.
Telephone: (804) 828-7077 --- email: [vanicule@vcu.edu]
Research interests: Magnetic,
electrical, and structural properties of metals and alloys, production and
characterization of amorphous and metal alloys.
Physics education.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Ph.D., Ioffe Institute, Russia, 1989.
Telephone:
email: [mreshchi@vcu.edu]
Research interests: Point
defects in semiconductors. Optical properties of wide-bandgap semiconductors.
Honorary Affiliate Graduate Faculty
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1981.
Telephone:
email: [csamanta@vcu.edu]
Research
interests: Nuclear Physics, Radioactive Ion Beam, Theory and Experiment
Assistant Professor of Physics
Ph.D., University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2001.
Telephone: 828-6343
email: [jmsullivan@vcu.edu]
Research interests:
Theoretical solid state physics. Electronic structure of DNA modified surfaces.
Theory of ferromagnetic semiconductors and scanning tunneling microscopy.
Engineering Faculty
(with joint appointments in Physics)
 Hadis Morkoç
Founders Professor Electrical Engineering & Physics
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1975.
Telephone: (804) 827-3765 --- email: [hmorkoc@vcu.edu]
Research interests:
GaN Thin Films and Heterostructures
 Gregory B. Tait
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Physics.
(Acting head of the Electrical Engineering Department)
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1991.
Telephone: (804) 828-1281 --- email: [gbtait@vcu.edu]
Research
interests: heterostructure semiconductor devices and nonlinear microwave circuits
Emeritus Faculty
Cameron B. Satterthwaite
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1951.
Research interests: Superconductivity, metal-hydrogen systems.
Elske v.P. Smith
Ph.D., Radcliffe, 1955.
Research interests: Solar astronomy, environmental studies.
Instructors
David M. Ameen
Collateral Faculty
Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, 2000
Telephone: (804) 828-2722 --- email: [dameen@vcu.edu]
Research Interests:
 Pat
Goolsby
Collateral Faculty
Telephone: (804) 828-1818 --- email: []
Research Interests:
 Durig
E. Lewis
Collateral Faculty
Ph. D., Imperial College, London, 1993.
Telephone: (804) 828-5443 --- email: [delewis@vcu.edu]
Research interests: K-12
Education
 Peter Martin
Collateral Faculty
Ph.D.,
Telephone: (804) 828-1818 --- email: [pmartin@vcu.edu]
Research Interests:
Pat Woodworth
Collateral Faculty
M. S.,
VCU, 2003.
Telephone: (804) 828-2722 --- email: [phwoodworth@vcu.edu]
Research interests: K-12
Education
Staff
 Evelyn Perham
Fiscal Technician
Telephone: (804) 827-1842 --- email: [ecperham@vcu.edu]
Janice P Guyer
Program Support Technician
Telephone: (804) 828-1818 --- email: [jpguyer@vcu.edu]
Russell Shumaker
Equipment Technician
Telephone: (804) 828-2198 --- email: [rhshumak@mail1.vcu.edu]
 Barbara
Martin
Cluster Theory Group Secretary
Telephone: (804) 828-7820
--- email:[bmartin@atlas.vcu.edu]
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