Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
Andre C. Barato
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Würzburg
barato@uh.edu
713-743-3023
Office: Science & Research 1, 627
Kevin E. Bassler
Moores Professor of Physics and Mathematics
Department Chair
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Complex Systems and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
bassler@uh.edu
713-743-3568
Office: Science & Research 1, 619C
Rene Bellwied
M.D. Anderson Chair Professor
Ph.D., Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
bellwied@uh.edu
713-743-3548
Office: Science & Research 1, 406A
Edgar Bering
Professor
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley
eabering@uh.edu
713-743-3543
Office: Science & Research 1, 530D
Eric Bittner
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
ebittner@central.uh.edu
832-316-0381 (Mobile)
Office: Science & Research 1, 620
Shuo Chen
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Boston College
schen34@uh.edu
713-743-9135
Office: Science & Research 1, 510F
Xiao-Jia Chen
M.D. Anderson Professor
Ph.D., Zhejiang University, China
xjchen@uh.edu
713-743-2250
Office: Houston Science Center, 342
Daniel Cherdack
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Tufts University
ddcherdack@uh.edu
Office: Science & Research 1, 406B
Paul C. W. Chu
Professor of Physics, T. L. L. Temple Chair of Science, and Founding Director & Chief Scientist, Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
cwchu@uh.edu
713-743-8222
Office: Houston Science Center, 262
Wei-Kan Chu
Cullen University Professor
Ph.D., Physics, Baylor University
Ion Beam, Ion Implantation, Rutherford Backscattering, Channeling, Radiation Damage, High Temperature Superconductor Applications, Levitation Bearings, Semiconductor Doping
wkchu@uh.edu
713-743-8252
Office: Houston Science Center, 114
Seamus Curran
Professor
Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin
sacurran@uh.edu
Office: Science & Research 1, 525
Mini Das
Moores Professor
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Medical Imaging Physics, Inverse Problems, Optical and Radiological Imaging, Image Science, Psychophysics, Image Perception, Optics and Electromagnetics in Medicine and Biology, Biophysics
mdas@uh.edu
713-743-3539
Office: Science & Research 1, 419B
Liangzi Deng
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston
ldeng2@central.uh.edu
713-743-3728
Office: Houston Science Center, 264
Wenqing Fan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stony Brook University
wfan7@uh.edu
Office: Science & Research 1, 632
Byron Freelon
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
bkfreelon@uh.edu
Office: Science & Research 1, 419F
Gemunu Gunaratne
Moores Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Genetic Networks, Physics and Genetic Diseases, Principal Components Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Chaos, Bifurcations
gemunu@uh.edu
713-743-3534
Office: Science & Research 1, 633
Pavan Hosur
Associate Professor
Post Doc, Stanford University, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
phosur@uh.edu
713-743-1033
Office: Houston Science Center, 307
Liming Li
Professor
Ph.D., Caltech
lli7@central.uh.edu
713-743-3283
Office: Science & Research 1, 530C
John Miller
Professor
Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Phenomena, Electron Transport, Superconductivity, Charge Density Waves, Biophysics, Biosensors
jhmiller@uh.edu
713-743-8257
Office: Houston Science Center, 318
Rubem Mondaini
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
rmondaini@uh.edu
832-338-7605 (mobile)
Office: Houston Science Center, 340
Greg Morrison
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, Physics
gcmorris@central.uh.edu
713-743-9344
Office: Science & Research 1, 629D
Carlos R. Ordonez
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Quantum Field Theory, Effective Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, String Theory, Black Hole Thermodynamics, Conformal Quantum Mechanics and Applications
ordonez@uh.edu
713-743-3586
Office: Science & Research 1, 627B
Michał Papaj
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Claudia Ratti
M.D. Anderson Professor
Ph.D., Physics, University of Torino (Italy)
cratti@uh.edu
713-743-7250
Office: Science & Research 1, 627E
Zhifeng Ren
Paul C. W. Chu and May P. Chern Endowed Chair in Condensed Matter Physics
Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences
zren@uh.edu
713-743-8217
Office: Houston Science Center, 466
Andrew Renshaw
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
arenshaw@uh.edu
713-743-0925
Office: Science & Research 1, 406B
Donna Stokes
Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston
dstokes@uh.edu
713-743-3588
Office: Science & Research 1, 531C
Wu-Pei Su
Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
wpsu@uh.edu
713-743-8280
Office: Houston Science Center, 313
Anthony Timmins
Professor
Ph.D., High Energy Nuclear Physics, University of Birmingham
atimmins@uh.edu
713-743-3554
Office: Science & Research 1, 406C
Chin-Sen Ting
Distinguished Professor of Physics
Ph.D., California at San Diego
ting@uh.edu
713-743-8275
Office: Houston Science Center, 312
Oomman K. Varghese
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Nanostructured Materials, Excitonic Solar Cells, Solar Fuel Generation, Environmental Sensing
okvarghese@uh.edu
713-743-3808
Office: Science & Research 1, 515E
Volodymyr Vovchenko
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
vvovchenko@uh.edu
713-743-4328
Office: Science & Research 1, 629C
Arthur Weglein
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair; Director, Mission-Oriented Seismic Research Program
Ph.D., CCNY/CUNY/City University of New York, Graduate Center
aweglein@uh.edu
713-743-3848
Office: Science & Research 1, 617
Lisa Whitehead Koerner
Professor
Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Experimental Particle Physics, Neutrinos, Neutrino Oscillations
lkoerner@central.uh.edu
713-743-3502
Office: Science & Research 1, 406A
Lowell Wood
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
ltwood@uh.edu
713-743-3560
Office: Science & Research 1, 512B