Experts by Expertise: Astronomy, Physics and Space

Priya R. Banerjee

Assistant Professor of Physics

Expertise: intrinsically disordered proteins, protein droplets, membrane-less organelles, single-molecule biophysics

Phone: 716-645-3444

Email: prbanerj@buffalo.edu

Javid Bayandor

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Expertise: Mid-air collisions; crashes involving drones (unmanned aircraft systems); space exploration and missions; crashworthiness; ballistics; advanced aerospace design

Phone: 716-645-1422

Email: bayandor@buffalo.edu

Gino Biondini

Professor of Mathematics

Expertise: mathematical properties of waves, solitons, applied mathematics, mathematical physics, general questions about mathematics

Phone: 716-645-8810

Email: biondini@buffalo.edu

John Cerne

Professor of Physics

Expertise: physics in everyday life, condensed matter physics, high-temperature superconductors, graphene, optics

Phone: 716-645-2542

Email: jcerne@buffalo.edu

James M. Chen

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Expertise: materials science, turbulence, energy harvesting, hypersonic/supersonic vehicles, aerodynamics, nonequilibrium phenomena, high-performance computing

Phone: 716-645-3163

Email: chenjm@buffalo.edu

John L. Crassidis

Samuel P. Capen Professor

Expertise: space debris, space junk

Phone: 716-645-1426

Email: johnc@buffalo.edu

Qiaoqiang Gan

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Expertise: light; photonics; optoelectronics; materials science; nanomaterials for solar energy, cooling and sensing applications

Phone: 716-645-1152

Email: qqgan@buffalo.edu

Tracy K. P. Gregg

Associate Professor of Geology

Expertise: volcanology, volcanoes on Mars and Venus, the search for water on Mars, volcanism on the moon, deep-sea eruptions, basaltic lava flows

Phone: 716-645-4328

Email: tgregg@buffalo.edu

Ia Iashvili

Professor of Physics

Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, search for supersymmetric particles

Phone: 716-645-6611

Email: iashvili@buffalo.edu

Avto Kharchilava

Professor of Physics

Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, phenomena beyond the Standard Model

Phone: 716-645-6251

Email: avto@buffalo.edu

William H. Kinney

Professor of Physics

Expertise: astronomy, cosmic inflation, accelerating universe, dark matter/dark energy, solar storms, cosmic microwave background physics, public outreach in science

Phone: 716-645-5360

Email: whkinney@buffalo.edu

Andrea Markelz

Moti Lal Rustgi Professor of Physics

Expertise: protein dynamics, spectroscopy, terahertz light, optical properties of materials, nonlinear optics

Phone: 716-645-2739

Email: amarkelz@buffalo.edu

Salvatore Rappoccio

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: particle physics, particle detectors

Phone: 716-645-6250

Email: srrappoc@buffalo.edu

Surajit Sen

Professor of Physics

Expertise: wave behavior, granular systems, quasi-equilibrium, nonequilibrium and chaotic phenomena, collisions, shock mitigation, sociophysics

Phone: 716-645-6151, 716-907-4961

Email: sen@buffalo.edu

Dejan Stojkovic

Professor of Physics

Expertise: cosmology, gravity, black holes, particle physics, exotic physics, origins of the universe, extra dimensions

Phone: 716-645-5014

Email: ds77@buffalo.edu

Hao Zeng

Professor of Physics

Expertise: magnetism, spintronics, nanomaterials, materials science, materials for solar energy harvesting

Phone: 716-645-5749

Email: haozeng@buffalo.edu