SRP - Key Persons


A. Ravi P. Rau

Job Titles:
  • Alumni Professor of Physics
  • Professor

Alexandra Noël

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine

Alexis Mercenne

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Amir Javaid

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist

Arthur Penn

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine

Ashlyn Harmon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Beverly Pourciau

Job Titles:
  • Building Coordinator
  • Coordinator - Travel and Building

Bradley Schaefer

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Brandon Amos


Brian Baker


Chenglong You

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Clem, James


Colin Turley

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Colleen Fava

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, LaSPACE / NASA EPSCoR

Cullen Domangue

Job Titles:
  • Electronics Development Group

Daniel Sheehy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Danielle Wall

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator - Grant and Travel

David Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Research
Research Interest in Medical Imaging, Image Processing and Deep Learning: Interferometric Imaging, Imaging system design and optimization reducing patient dose, imaging time; Image reconstruction with physical modeling; Deep-learning for oncological prediction and staging; Mathematical (pde) models of tumor growth and treatment; Segmentation and registration. My research focuses on new systems and algorithms designed to help large patient populations with new imaging advances: for example, new methods of imaging, higher resolution and sensitivity systems for lowering the dose to patients, better quality diagnostic images, more efficient acquisition etc.; pathological quantification algorithms; predictions for oncology; correction of motion artifacts for better diagnosis.

Donald Mercante

Job Titles:
  • Professor, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans

Douglas Granger

Job Titles:
  • Space Science Research Group

Dr. Catherine Deibel

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Recruiting Chair
  • Graduate Student Advisor
  • Professor
  • Professor of Physics

Dr. Charles M. Smith

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Medical Physics
  • Distinguished Professor of Medical Physics

Dr. Dana Browne

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair and Professor of Physics
  • Department Associate Chair
  • Professor, Department Associate Chair

Dr. David Young

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Undergraduate Student Advisor

Dr. Jeffery Blackmon

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair

Dr. Natalie Hinkel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Undergraduate Student Worker Research Contact

Dr. Shane Stadler

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Undergraduate Recruiting Chair

Dubravka Rupnik

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Dytrych, Tomas

Job Titles:
  • Nuclear Physics Institute of the ASCR

Edward Zganjar

Job Titles:
  • Alumni Professor Emeritus

Eric Burns

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor Eric Burns / Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Research Interests I am an astrophysicist that broadly studies transient events in high-energy photons and in concert with other messengers from the universe. I study neutron star mergers which are the most luminous events in the Universe, the related non-thermal gamma-ray burst emission, and identify unexpected or new kinds of transient phenomena, and played a leading role in the multimessenger discovery of a binary neutron star merger. I seek to use these results to understand basic properties of the universe, including the properties of ultra-dense matter and fundamental physics. I contribute to active space-based instruments and telescopes on the ground, and work with instrument teams to propose new missions to resolve key outstanding questions in astrophysics and beyond. I am particularly interested in the development of new analysis and search software as well as the use of robust statistical methodology.

Erwin Poliakoff

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Fontenot, Jonas


Francois Mauger

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Frank Womack

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist

Gabriela González

Job Titles:
  • Boyd Professor of Physics
  • Professor

Gamma Ray

Job Titles:
  • Burst Monitor ( GBM )

Geoffrey Clayton

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Hanyu Wei

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Hwang Lee

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Ilya Vekhter

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Ivan Agullo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor of Physics
18. I. Agullo, and S. Shandera, Large non-gaussian halo bias from single field inflation, JCAP 1209, 007 (2012).

J. Dey, N. Bhusal

Job Titles:
  • Butler, J. Dowling, K. Ham and V. Singh, Patent No. US 11, 488, 740 B2, Nov 1, 2022.
  • Butler, J. P. Dowling, K. Ham, V. Singh, "Phase Contrast X - Ray Interferometry" US Patent No., 10872708, Dec 22, 2020

J. Gregory Stacy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

J. P. Schiffer

Job Titles:
  • Nuclear Structure Relevant to Neutrinoless Β Double Decay

James Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

James Reed

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans

James Sauls

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics

Jeffery Chancellor

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor of Physics

Jennifer Richmond-Bryant

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of the Practice, Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University

Jerry Draayer

Job Titles:
  • Nuclear Theory / Computational Physics
  • Professor

Joel Tohline

Job Titles:
  • Director Emeritus

John DiTusa

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor Emeritus

John Wefel

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Johnson, Sheldon


Jorge Pullin

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics

Joseph A. Giaime

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor of Physics

Joyoni Dey

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Juhan Frank

Job Titles:
  • Lorraine and Leon August Professor of Physics & Astronomy
  • Professor Emeritus

Justin H. Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Ka Ming Tam

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor

Kathryn Perry

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Grants and Travel

Kenneth Hogstrom

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Kenneth Schafer

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Kirby, Krystal


Kristina Launey

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Kurt Varner

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Head

Lai-Him Chan

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Professor Emeritus of Physics

Laurie Rea

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Chair

Lavrent Khachatryan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

Manos Chatzopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Marcus Nauman

Job Titles:
  • Electronics Development Group

Margaret Reams

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University

Martin Tzanov

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Matthew Penny

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Mette Gaarde

Job Titles:
  • Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor of Physics

Michael Cherry

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Professor Emeritus of Physics

Michela Negro

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Mimi LaValle

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Public Relations and External Relations

Nadra Sakr

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Nayeli Zuniga-Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Nicholas Loup

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Omar Magana-Loaiza

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Orsola De Marco


Paige Whittington

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager for Medical & Health Physics and Hearne Chair II

Pan, Feng


Parampreet Singh

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Patricia Hewlett Bodin

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Peter Diener

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor
  • Research Assistant Professor of Physics

Philip Adams

Job Titles:
  • Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Physics

Phillip Sprunger

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor of Physics
  • Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University

Pitcher, Garrett


Prosper Ngabonziza

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Richard Kurtz

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Director of CAMD

Robert Cook

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

Robert Hynes

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Robert O'Connell

Job Titles:
  • Boyd Professor Emeritus

Roy P. Daniels

Job Titles:
  • Nuclear Theory / Computational Physics
  • Professor
  • Professor of Physics
  • Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Physics

Rui Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Russell B. Long

Job Titles:
  • Physics, Department Chair
  • Professor, Department Chair

Sabrina Huezo

Job Titles:
  • Electronics Development Group

Schneider, Christopher


Schneider, Gerald


Scott Marley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Shemeka Law

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator - Purchasing
  • Purchasing

Slawo Lomnicki

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University

Solis, David


Stathakis, Sotirios


Stephania A Cormier

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Professor
  • Director, LSU Superfund Research Program
  • LSU Superfund Research Center Director

Stephanie Jones

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator - Course and Teaching Schedule
  • Undergraduate Coordinator

T. Gregory Guzik

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor of Physics

Tabetha Boyajian

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Tammy Dugas

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine

Thomas Corbitt

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor of Physics

Thomas Kutter

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Vernita Adkins

Job Titles:
  • Manager - LIGO Science Education Center STEM Education Initiative

Vincent Vaughn


Warren Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Wayne Backes

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Research and Professor

Weiss, Rainer


Wilde, Mark


William A. Shelton

Job Titles:
  • Professor

William Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Professor Emeritus of Physics

William McElgin

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

William Metcalf

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Wollaeger, Ryan


Xiaojian Bai

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor of Physics