Regular Faculty
Daniel Snowden-Ifft, Chair
Ezra Frederick Scattergood 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.
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.
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.
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
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
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...