Faculty

Regular Faculty

Janet Scheel, Chair

Ezra Frederick Scattergood Professor, Physics

B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana; M.A., M.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., Caltech

Janet Scheel's research deals with pattern formation and turbulence. The particular system she studies is Rayleigh-Benard convection.

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Alec Schramm

Professor, Physics

B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University

Alec Schramm is a theoretical nuclear and particle physicist whose recent work has dealt with the low-x regime of quantum chromodynamics and the evolution and thermal fluctuation of skyrmions.

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Daniel Snowden-Ifft

Professor, Physics

B.A., Swarthmore College M.A., Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Daniel Snowden-Ifft has been searching for dark matter for the past 20 years.

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Sabrina Stierwalt

Assistant Professor, Physics

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Cornell University

Sabrina Stierwalt observes galaxies beyond our own to understand how those galaxies form and evolve and ultimately our own cosmic origins. Read her Oxy Story profile.

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Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Jean-Luc Gauvreau

Resident Associate Professor, Physics

B.S. Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada; Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park

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Igor Umanskiy

Laboratory Coordinator

M.S., Saratov State University, Russia; Ph.D., Saratov State University, Russia

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In Memoriam

George Schmiedeshoff

George Schmiedeshoff, longtime professor of physics at Oxy and an experimental condensed matter physicist, passed away July 16, 2019 from pancreatic cancer. He was 63 years old.

George joined the Occidental faculty in 1992 after earning his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and...

Faculty

Regular Faculty

Janet Scheel, Chair

Alec Schramm

Daniel Snowden-Ifft

Sabrina Stierwalt

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Jean-Luc Gauvreau

Igor Umanskiy

In Memoriam

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