Faculty

Note: The area code for Knoxville and Oak Ridge is 865. Nielsen is the Nielsen Physics Building and SERF refers to the Science & Engineering Research Facility. IAMM is the Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing. These and all other campus buildings can be located using the university's campus map. ORNL is Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UTSI is the UT Space Institute in Tullahoma.

Faculty and Lecturers
Emeritus Faculty

	Research Area	Office	Phone	Email
Margie Abdelrazek Senior Lecturer		216 Nielsen	974-6180	mabdelr1@utk.edu
Cristian D. Batista Lincoln Chair Professor	Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics	210 South College	974-4164	cbatist2@utk.edu
Marianne Breinig Professor Associate Head Assistant Director of Graduate Program	Physics Education	202 Nielsen	974-7842	mbreinig@utk.edu
Christine Cheney Director of Undergraduate Laboratories		404B Nielsen	974-9811	ccheney@utk.edu
Elbio Dagotto Distinguished Professor	Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics	302 South College	974-2122	edagotto@utk.edu
Adrian Del Maestro Professor and Department Head	Quantum Materials/Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics	401 Nielsen	974-2843	Adrian.DelMaestro@utk.edu
Yuri Efremenko Professor (Joint Faculty)	Experimental High Energy Physics	105 Nielsen/ORNL	974-7857 or 574-4706	yefremen@utk.edu
Adolfo Eguiluz Professor	Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics	202 South College	974-6182 or 574-5783	eguiluz@utk.edu
Nadia Fomin Associate Professor	Experimental Nuclear/Neutron Physics	611 SERF	974-1509	nfomin@utk.edu
Robert Grzywacz Professor	Experimental Nuclear Physics Director, Joint Institute of Nuclear Physics and Applications	613 SERF/ORNL	974-2918 or 574-4732	rgrzywac@utk.edu
Michael Guidry Professor	Computational Astrophysics	308 South College	974-7810	guidry@utk.edu
William R. Hix (Raph) Professor (Joint Faculty)	Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics	310A South College	974-5913	raph@utk.edu
Tova Holmes Assistant Professor	Experimental High Energy Particle Physics	504 Nielsen	974-7820	tholmes@utk.edu
Steven Johnston Associate Professor Director of Graduate Program	Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics	502 Nielsen	974-7837	sjohn145@utk.edu
Kate Jones Professor and Associate Department Head	Experimental Nuclear Physics	407B Nielsen	974-4022	kgrzywac@utk.edu
Yuri Kamyshkov Professor	Experimental High Energy Physics	505 Nielsen/603 SERF	974-6777	kamyshkov@utk.edu
Wonhee Ko Assistant Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	203 South College	974-4245	wko@utk.edu
Maxim Lavrentovich Assistant Professor Assistant Director of Undergraduate Program	Theoretical Biophysics	406A Nielsen	974-5947	mlavrent@utk.edu
Joon Sue Lee Assistant Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	515 Nielsen	974-8705	jslee@utk.edu
Lawrence Lee Assistant Professor	Experimental High Energy Particle Physics	503 Nielsen		llee@utk.edu
Sean Lindsay Senior Lecturer/Astronomy Coordinator/Research Assistant Professor		215 Nielsen	974-2362	slindsay@utk.edu
Jian Liu Associate Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter	217A Nielsen	974-3055	jianliu@utk.edu
Miguel Madurga Assistant Professor	Experimental Nuclear Physics	407A Nielsen	974-5957	mmadurga@utk.edu
Norman Mannella Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	210 Nielsen	974-6123	nmannell@utk.edu
Jaan Mannik Professor	Experimental Biophysics	406B Nielsen	974-6018	jmannik@utk.edu
Anthony Mezzacappa Newton W. and Wilma C. Thomas Endowed Chair and College of Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor	Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics	206 South College/ORNL	974-2621	mezz@utk.edu
Adriana Moreo Professor (Joint Faculty)	Theoetical Condensed Matter Physics	303 South College	974-2084	amoreo@utk.edu
Christine Nattrass Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Program	Experimental Nuclear Physics	609 SERF	974-6211	cnattras@utk.edu
Thomas Papenbrock Professor (Joint Faculty)	Theoretical Nuclear Physics	102 South College/ORNL	974-3128 or 574-4577	tpapenbr@utk.edu
Christian Parigger Associate Professor	Laser, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics	UTSI	931-393-7509	cparigge@tennessee.edu
Lucas Platter Associate Professor (Joint Faculty)	Theoretical Nuclear Physics	104 South College	974-4375	lplatter@utk.edu
Nau Raj Pokhrel Lecturer		214 Nielsen Physics Building	974-5697	npokhrel@utk.edu
Kenneth Read Professor (Joint Faculty)	Experimental Nuclear Physics	309 Nielsen/ORNL	974-3027 or 574-5347	kfread@utk.edu
Sherwood Richers Assistant Professor	Theoretical Astrophysics	106 South College		richers@utk.edu
George Siopsis Professor Director of Quantum Leap Initiative	Theoretical High Energy Physics	M104 Nielsen	974-7846	gsiopsis@utk.edu
Stefan Spanier Professor	Experimental High Energy Physics	607 SERF	974-0597	sspanier@utk.edu
Andrew W. Steiner Associate Professor (Joint Faculty)	Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics	103 South College	974-5379	awsteiner@utk.edu
David Alan Tennant Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	233 IAMM	974-4245	dtennant@utk.edu
Yishu Wang Assistant Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	312 IAMM		wangyishu@utk.edu
Hanno Weitering Chancellor's Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	306 South College	974-7841	hanno@utk.edu
Ruixing Zhang Assistant Professor	Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics	203 South College	974-7837	ruixing@utk.edu
Yang Zhang Assistant Professor	Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics	217A Nielsen Physics Building	974-2633	yangzhang@utk.edu
Haidong Zhou Associate Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	217A Nielsen	974-6019	hzhou10@utk.edu

Carrol Bingham APS Fellow cbingham@utk.edu	Bill Bugg APS Fellow bugg@utk.edu 974-7799	Thomas Callcott APS Fellow tomc@utk.edu
Bob Childers	Bob Compton APS Fellow AAAS Fellow rcompton@utk.edu	Steve Daunt sdaunt@utk.edu Nielsen 208 974-7847
Stuart Elston selston@utk.edu	Geoff Greene APS Fellow ggreene@utk.edu	Thomas Handler thandler@utk.edu
Joe Macek jmacek@utk.edu	James Parks jeparks@utk.edu 312 Nielsen 974-8952	Linda Painter APS Fellow lpainter@utk.edu
David Pegg APS Fellow djpegg@utk.edu	Lee Riedinger APS Fellow AAAS Fellow lrieding@utk.edu 270 JIAM	Ivan Sellin APS Fellow
C.C. Shih ccshih@utk.edu	Soren Sorensen APS Fellow AAAS Fellow sorensen@utk.edu	Jim Thompson APS Fellow jrt@utk.edu

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