Regular Faculty
Alec Schramm, Chair
Ezra Frederick Scattergood 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.
Janet Scheel
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.
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.
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.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Gabriel Freiman
Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics and Computer Science
M.S. in Engineering, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (France); M.S.in Applied Physics, University of Paris 6 (France); Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique (France)
Gabriel Freiman's research deals with physico-chemistry of surfaces/interfaces. His research work focus towards fluids interaction with solid 2D materials (metals, oxides, carbon nanostructures) at the nanometer scale. He is also interested by its applications (microfluidic sensors, MEMS sensors, photovoltaic conversion, batteries).
Jean-Luc Gauvreau
Resident Associate Professor, Physics
B.S. Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada; PhD. University of Maryland College Park
Igor Umanskiy
Laboratory Coordinator
M.S., Saratov State University, Russia; Ph.D., Saratov State University, Russia
Affiliated Faculty
David T. Carreon Bradley
Vice President for Equity & Justice, Associate Professor of Physics
B.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D., University of Nebraska - Lincoln
In Memoriam
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...