Faculty

Tom Böttger is from Berlin, Germany and is first and foremost a teacher. He enjoys teaching the large introductory physics courses as well as hands-on courses like Electronics and Digital Electronics.In his research he studies optical, dynamical, and magnetic properties of solids, specifically optical materials doped with rare earth ions. This work is centered on understanding the fundamental material physics at the microscopic scale, but also geared towards the development of optical materials...

Professor Camblong's research has been centered on miscellaneous topics in quantum field theory, gravitational physics, and many-body theory. His main focus has been on developing general frameworks, with applications to fields as diverse as condensed-matter physics, molecular physics, nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, and quantum gravity. Some of the highlights of his published research over the past decade include collaborative work on: a geometrical and gauge-invariant approach...

I am excited about using high-precision control of light to create and control extremely brief pulses of electrons! My main tools are ultrafast lasers and field emission tips. Much of my earlier graduate work concentrated on improving the exquisite control of light fields achieved by the optical clock and ultrafast laser communities. With undergraduate research students at USF, we investigate the ultrafast field emission process. Students have designed, built, and characterized femtosecond...

My research interests are in observational cosmology. Fourteen years after the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe (Nobel Prize 2011), a standard model of the universe (and its variations) has been established but fundamental questions about the nature of dark energy remain unanswered. Along with collaborators in the Supernova Cosmology Project led by Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, I am working on the following projects and would like to engage...

Milka Nikolic's research focuses primarily on developing spectroscopy methods for plasma etching technology. She is interested in both theoretical and experimental approaches to solving mysteries of physics. In particular, she works in combining laser diagnostics with widely used optical emission spectroscopy technique to obtain fundamental plasma properties. Understanding these properties plays an important role in surface modification processes. In addition, she's exploring molecular...

I am currently a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of San Francisco. Please visit my website for more details on my research, undergraduate projects, CV, recent awards and press, etc. Recent awards and grants include a Cottrell College Science Award from Research Corporation (2010-2013), a USF Jesuit Foundation Grant (2012), and a Dean's Scholar Award at USF for 2012-2013. I am USF's Lead Faculty Member in a 3-year $437,883 collaborative grant (2012-2015)...