Staff
Amanda L. Machi Tel: (415)422-6155
Physics & Astronomy Program Assistant
B.A. (History), University of San Francisco, 2007
M.A. (History), San Francisco State University, 2011
Jordan Palamos Tel: (415)422-6241
Physics Technician
B.S. (Physics), University of San Francisco, 2012
Tel:
bentone@usfca.edu
Professor Emeritus
For over 20 years, Dr. Benton's Research Laboratory
has been involved with NASA and an international group of scientist
with the aim of advancing the health and radiation safety of
astronauts engaged in long-term space habitation.
Tel:(415) 422-5716
tbottger@usfca.edu
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D.,
Montana State University - Bozeman, 2002
Tel:(415) 422-6179
brownb@usfca.edu
Professor, Director of External Affairs
Brandon Brown pursued doctoral training in superconductivity
and low-temperature physics, with postdoctoral work in science
communication. Once at the University of San Francisco, he shifted
his research focus to topics in sensory biophysics. Over the last
ten years, his laboratory, his research students, and various
collaborators have explored the electric and magnetic sensory
abilities of a variety of creatures.
Tel:(415) 422-2364
camblongh@usfca.edu
Professor
Ph.D., New
York University, 1993Areas of interest: Theoretical physics, quantum-field
theory, gravitational physics, and many-body theory.
Tel:(415) 422-5939
camperi@usfca.edu
Professor
Marcelo F. Camperi studied physics at the great Universidad
Nacional de la Plata, in Argentina. He received his Ph.D. from
Boston University, working in topological field theory and some
phenomenology of elementary particles. Upon graduating, he became
interested in the study of the brain from a physicists'
point of view.
Tel:(415) 422-4510
sforeman@usfca.edu
Assistant Professor
I completed my Ph.D. in the group of Jun Ye at JILA,
University of Colorado at Boulder, in 2007, working on femtosecond
lasers, frequency combs, optical atomic clocks, and time/frequency
transfer over optical fiber networks.
At USF I am developing field emission tips (atomically sharp
needles) as femtosecond electron sources for applications such as
fs-time-resolved electron microscopy. This work lies at
the intersection of ultrafast science, nanotechnology,
precision frequency metrology, and vacuum electronics.
Tel:415-422-2333
wjgolightly@usfca.edu
Adjunct Professor
Research experience: Theory of the waveguide
free-electron laser, use of inverse AC Josephson effect in voltage
standards.
Tel:(415)422-6281
xhuang22@usfca.edu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2004.
Research interests: Observational Cosmology, High Redshift
(Faraway) Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia), Nearby SNe Ia, Gravitational
Lensing.Previously worked on the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by
Saul Perlmutter, at the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory.
Tel:(415) 422-5701
mulera@usfca.edu
Adjunct Professor
Areas of interest: Relativistic collisions of heavy ions,
radiation detector development, neutrino oscillations, rare decays
of the pion.
Tel:(415) 422-6152
avenkatesan@usfca.edu
Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2000. Research Interests: Theoretical Astrophysics, Cosmology, First
Stars, Dark Stars, Cosmic Element Synthesis, Microwave Background,
Astrobiology
Tel:415-422-5360
myong@usfca.edu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: condensed matter physics, graphene and
topological insulators, angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy
