Departmental Information
Administration
- Dr. Hanno Weitering, Department Head, Professor, and Joint Insitute for Advanced Materials (JIAM) Chair of Excellence
- Dr. Marianne Breinig, Associate Head and Director of the Graduate Program
- Dr. James E. Parks, Associate Head and Director of Undergraduate Labs
Resources
- For Faculty: Teaching Schedules, Committee Assignments, and other Resources
- University Travel Policies and Forms
- Electronic and Computer Support (Physics Electronics Shop)
- Copier & Printer Installations
- Department History
Department Highlights
- 32 faculty, 35 research and adjunct faculty, 26 postdocs, 119 graduate and 90 undergraduate students
- 11 Fellows of the American Physical Society and 5 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2011 APS Tom W. Bonner Prize winner (most prestigious prize in nuclear physics)—Professor Witek Nazarewicz
- Outstanding young faculty, including recipients of an NSF CAREER Grant and two Outstanding Young Investigator Awards (2007 and 2009) from DOE
- $8.7M in annual research expenditures
- Strong ties to researchers and facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, including joint institutes in Advanced Materials, Heavy Ion Research, and Neutron Sciences
- Strong presence at major international laboratories, including the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland
- Strong participation in the search and discovery of the "Higgs Boson" and in the Mars Rover exploration; as well as research on iron-based superconductors and defining the limits of the nuclear landscape, among other endeavors