Faculty
Boris Blinov
Boris Blinov is an associate professor in the Department of Physics. He is the principal investigator of the Trapped Ion Quantum Computing research group. Blinov earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Michigan.
David Cobden
David Cobden is a professor in the Department of Physics and the director of the Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter. His research focuses on condensed matter experiments, quantum information and nanodevice physics. He earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
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Alejandro Garcia
Alejandro Garcia is a professor in the Department of Physics. He does research in experimental nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics and leads the Weak Interactions in the Nucleus research group. Garcia is co-author of the book Subatomic Physics. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington.
Anna Goussiou
Anna Goussiou is a professor in the Department of Physics and the faculty coordinator of the UW Master of Science in Physics program. Her research focuses on experimental particle physics at the Large Hadron Collider. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin.
Deep Gupta
Deep Gupta is a professor in the Department of Physics. He heads the Ultracold Atoms and Molecules research group. Gupta received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined the UW faculty in 2007.
Blayne Heckel
Blayne Heckel is a professor emeritus of physics and former chair in the Department of Physics. His research interests focus on tests of fundamental symmetries: torsion balance tests of spatial isotropy, the equivalence principle, and the gravitational inverse square law, and searching for time reversal symmetry violation in the electric dipole moments of atoms. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Jeffrey Wilkes
Jeffrey Wilkes is an emeritus professor in the Department of Physics. His research focused on high-energy neutrino and cosmic-ray astrophysics, accelerator studies of neutrinos and public outreach activities. He holds a patent for a digital sonar system and serves as a reviewer of physics-related content for NASA and the National Science Foundation, among other agencies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.