Faculty Profiles

Dietrich Belitz

Professor of Physics
Condensed matter physics; Dr. rer. nat. Munich 1982; Research Associate, TU Munich 1982-1985; Research Associate, University of Maryland, 1985-1987.
Research Interests: Quantum many-body theory

J. David Cohen

Professor of Physics
Condensed matter physics; Ph.D. Princeton, 1976; Member of the Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories 1978-1981.
Research Interests: Defect properties in amorphous and/or disordered thin film semiconductors, with emphasis on thin-film photovoltaic materials

Miriam Deutsch

Assistant Professor of Physics
Experimental optical physics; Ph.D. Hebrew University
Research Interests: Synthesis and characterization of photonic crystals (PC’s); Optical properties of PC’s and nano-patterned metals; PC-based devices; Noise and quantum correlations in optical systems

Stephen Gregory

Associate Professor of Physics
Condensed Matter Physics. Ph.D. Waterloo (Canada) 1975; Assistant Professor, Cornell University 1978-1985; Member of Technical Staff, Bellcore 1985-1992.
Research Interests: Tunneling and near-field optical microscopy, surface-plasmonic devices,molecular electronics.

Roger Haydock

Professor of Physics
Condensed matter physics; Sc.D., Cambridge (UK) 1989; Ph.D. Cambridge (UK) 1972; Cambridge University Demonstrator in Theoretical Physics1978-1982.
Research Interests: Electronic structure and processes at surfaces, defects, and in amorphous and disordered materials; computational physics.

Stephen D. Kevan

Professor of Physics
Condensed matter physics; Ph.D. Berkeley (Chemistry) 1980; Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories 1980-85.
Research Interests: Surface and thin film physics; electronic structure and collective excitations at surfaces; nanoscale spatial and temporal fluctuations in magnetic and otherp complex materials.

Heiner Linke

Associate Director and Treasurer, Materials Science Institute, Associate Professor of Physics,
Experimental condensed matter physics and Biophysics; MSc TU Munich 1992 Ph.D. Lund 1997. Research Associate Lund University 1997 - 1998 Australian Research Council Fellow, University of New South Wales, 1998 - 2001
Research Interests: Electronic properties of low-dimensional semiconductor nanodevices. Physical principles of biological molecular motors. Brownian motors and quantum ratchets.

Raghuveer Parthasarathy

Assistant Professor of Physics,
Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics.
Ph.D. Physics, University of Chicago, 2002.
Research Interests: Material properties of biological membranes, mechanisms of protein organization, advanced microscopy techniques.

Richard P. Taylor

Associate Professor of Physics
Condensed matter physics. Ph.D. Physics, University of Nottingham, UK, 1988; B.Sc. Physics, University of Nottingham, 1985; C.A.D., Manchester School of Art, UK, 1995; M. Art Theory, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2000
Research Interests: Chaos in the electrical and optical properties of semiconductor Nanostructures. Nanotechnology is used to construct state-of-the-art semiconductor devices that induce chaos in the flow of electrons over nano-scale distances. The resulting fractal behavior in the device conductance can be controlled and adjusted with precision, allowing a systematic study of the fundamental properties of fractals. By cooling the devices to temperatures approaching "absolute zero" (293oC below room temperature), classical chaos evolves into quantum chaos and the effect on the fractal conductance is studied. Investigations are being extended to chaos and fractals in optical devices. In both systems, the research features an inter-play between fundamental and applied physics, with the potential for the development of novel commercial devices.

Kenneth M. Doxsee

Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1983 (Robert Grubbs). Postdoctoral: University of California, Los Angeles, 1983–85 (Donald J. Cram). Honors and Awards: Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow, 1979–83; American Cancer Society Scholar, 1984–85.
Research Interests: Inorganic chemistry - designed synthesis of metastable phases, phase- and shape-selective crystallization of solid-state materials. Development of environmentally benign methods for the synthesis of solid-state materials

Marina G. Guenza

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests: Development of novel, molecular-scale, statistical-mechanical theories of the structure and dynamics of complex materials

Michael M. Haley

Professor of Chemistry
Organic chemistry; Ph.D. Rice University 1991, Postdoctoral: University of California, Berkeley 1991-1993;
Research Interests: Synthesis of non-natural carbon networks and substructures; optical and nonlinear optical materials.

James E. Hutchison

Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1991, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow 1992-1994 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. At Oregon since 1994.
Research Interests: Nanoelectronics, chemically-modified surfaces, green materials chemistry.

Darren W. Johnson

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests: Inorganic, Organic, Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry.

David C. Johnson

Professor of Chemistry
Inorganic chemistry; Ph.D. Cornell University 1983; Research Scientist at E.I. DuPont de Nemours 1984-1986.
Research Interests: Novel approaches to solid state synthesis of new materials.

Mark C. Lonergan

Director, Materials Science Institute, Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Physical Chemistry. B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics, University of Oregon 1990; PhD. Chemistry Northwestern University 1994; Postdoctoral California Institute of Technology1994-1996. At Oregon since 1996.
Research Interests: Study of polymer blends, composites and copolymers in which at least one component is optically or electrically active, such as a conducting polymer or inorganic superconductor.

Catherine J. Page

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Solid state chemistry; Ph.D. Cornell University 1984; Research Scientist at E.I. DuPont deNemours 1984- 86.
Research Interests: Novel synthetic routes to functional materials, including self-assembly of multilayer thin films and sol-gel synthesis of complex oxides.

Geraldine L. Richmond

Professor of Chemistry, Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor, Physical chemistry; Ph.D. Berkeley 1980; Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College 1980-85.
Research Interests: Optical studies of interfacial structure and dynamics.

David Tyler

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry;
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1979
Research Interests: Inorganic materials, polymer chemistry, photochemistry.

Russell J. Donnelly

Professor Emeritus of Physics.
Research Interests: Physics of fluids, low temperature physics.

Andrew H. Marcus

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry; B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1987. PhD. Stanford University 1993 (M. D. Fayer). Postdoctoral: The James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago, 1993-96. (S. A. Rice). At Oregon since 1996.
Research Interests: Polymer and colloid materials and their relationship to bulk thermodynamic and mechanical properties.

George W. Rayfield

Professor of Physics.
Research Interests: Application of biological materials to electronic devices.

Michael G. Raymer

Professor of Physics.
Research Interests: Quantum Information Processing; Quantum Optics; Quantum Control;Semiconductor Optical Physics; Nonlinear Optics.

John Toner

Professor of Physics, Condensed matter theory. Ph.D. Harvard University 1981.
Research Interests: Condensed matter theory ranging from studies of transport in disordered superconductors to models for the motion of flocks of birds.

Hailin Wang

Professor of Physics
Research Interests: Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures.