Experts by Expertise: Astronomy, Physics and Space

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3/27/19
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
11/8/19
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
4/7/23
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
12/19/18
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
8/16/21
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
10/27/22
John L. Crassidis
Moog Professor of Innovation
Expertise: space debris, space junk
Phone: 716-645-1426
Email: johnc@buffalo.edu
4/7/23
Tracy K. P. Gregg
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
12/19/18
Ia Iashvili
Professor of Physics
Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, search for supersymmetric particles
Phone: 716-645-6611
Email: iashvili@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Avto Kharchilava
Professor of Physics
Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, phenomena beyond the Standard Model
Phone: 716-645-6251
Email: avto@buffalo.edu
10/27/21
William H. Kinney
Professor of Physics
Expertise: astronomy, cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmic microwave background, dark matter, dark energy, solar eclipses, public outreach in science

Phone: 716-645-5360
Email: whkinney@buffalo.edu
5/16/19
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
12/26/18
Salvatore Rappoccio

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: particle physics, particle detectors
Phone: 716-645-6250
Email: srrappoc@buffalo.edu
9/19/17
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
5/15/19
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
10/25/21
Kang Sun

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: air pollution, greenhouse gases, climate change, remote sensing, molecular spectroscopy

Phone: 716-645-6167
Email: kangsun@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Hao Zeng

Professor of Physics
Expertise: magnetism, spintronics, nanomaterials, materials science, materials for solar energy harvesting
Phone: 716-645-5749
Email: haozeng@buffalo.edu