Faculty

Hebin Li

Professor

(305) 284-7112
Hebin Li is currently a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Miami. He earned his BS in Physics from Wuhan University and his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M University in 2010. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Li worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado...

Antoni Luque Santolaria

Assoc. Professor
Secondary Faculty in Physics

(305) 284-3819
Dr. Luque is a biophysicist who studies the molecular structure and dynamics of viruses using biophysical modeling, artificial intelligence, and bioinformatics. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Barcelona and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University. Dr. Luque joined the U in 2023 as an Associate Professor in the Department of...

Burton Rosenberg

Assoc. Professor
Director of Technology
Member CCS

(305) 284-2141
Home Page: http://www.cs.miami.edu/~burt/

He Wang

Associate Professor

I received my PhD from Princeton University in 2013 and then went to UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a postdoctoral fellow. My research interests focus on investigating device physics and photophysics of organic and organic-inorganic hybrid optoelectronic materials. I utilize ultrafast laser spectroscopy to...

Joshua L Cohn

Professor
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education

(305) 284-4036
My research involves measuring low-temperature electronic, magnetic, and thermal properties of novel materials that manifest interesting physics and show some potential to be useful in future electronic devices. These physical properties measurements, like electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and thermoelectricity, involve attaching...

Jamie Walls

Assoc. Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

(305) 284-4570
For over sixty years, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) continues to be an active and fertile area of scientific research, with applications ranging from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to testing fundamental theories and applications of quantum mechanics. However, one of the main challenges in NMR over its history has been in increasing...

Kun Wang

Asst. Professor

Kun Wang is currently an Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Miami (UM). Prior to UM, he was an Assistant Professor in Physics and Chemistry at Mississippi State University from 2020-2023. He received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Georgia in 2016. After that, he worked as a Research Fellow at the University of...

Rafael I Nepomechie

Professor

(305) 284-7124
Activities As a Professor here at the University of Miami, I have two main activities: Teaching Each semester I have been teaching either an undergraduate (Psc 101, Phy 101, Phy 321, Phy 350, Phy 351, Phy 515) or graduate (Phy 517, Phy 540, Phy 560, Phy 561, Phy 612, Phy 616, Phy 670, Phy 671) course, as well as a discussion section of...

Orlando Acevedo, Ph.D.

Professor

Our research program focuses upon the application and development of new computational tools that target organic and enzymatic catalyst design, alternative environmentally friendly solvent design, and drug discovery. Fundamental problems in organic and medicinal chemistry are probed, such as elucidation of enzymatic reactions, controlling...

Pawel Stanislaw Jung

Asst. Professor

Pawel is a Physicist specializing in Optics and Photonics. Prior to joining the Department of Physics at the University of Miami, he served as a Research Scientist and Instructor Scholar at the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida. His research primarily focuses on the intersection of non-Hermitian and...

Sakhrat Khizroev

Professor
Graduate Program Director (GPD)

(305) 284-4789
The goal of the Khizroev Laboratory is to invent technologies which are at least ten years ahead of their time. To achieve this goal, we leverage the team’s unique expertise and decades of research experience in the field of nanomagnetic and spintronic devices to create game-changing technologies in a broad range of...

Stephen Lee

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-8229
Stephen Anthony Lee is a chemist studying light-matter interactions at the single object level using time- and frequency-resolved spectroscopy for quantum sensing and communication applications. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Michigan studying enhanced single-molecule imaging in bacteria under Professor Julie Biteen....

Chunlei Wang

Professor

(305) 284-3308
Chunlei (Peggy) Wang is a professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Miami. She earned her PhD in Solid State Physics from Jilin University in 1997. From 2006 to 2023, she dedicated 17 years to Florida International University (FIU), progressing from a tenure-track assistant professor to a full...

Rajeev Prabhakar

Professor

(305) 284-9372
Computational chemistry is a fast emerging field and today is widely applied to solve complex chemical and biochemical problems in both academia and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. In this field, highly accurate quantum chemical methods implemented in the advanced commercial software and state-of-the-art computers including...

Danila Barskiy

Assoc. Professor

Danila Barskiy is an Associate Professor at the Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Miami. His lab develops next-generation NMR methods by combining hyperpolarization with ultralow-field detection and quantum sensing. He has received the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the...

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