Faculty

Joel Fajans

Professor

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. Joined Berkeley faculty in 1988. Awards: Hertz Foundation Fellowship, American Physical Society Simon Ramo Thesis Prize, Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Sloan Fellowship, Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Research Interests

Although most of the universe is in the plasma state, the basic properties of plasmas are not well understood. Plasmas are collective systems, and exhibit remarkably complicated nonlinear behaviors like turbulence and chaos. Better...

Roger Falcone

Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School

Roger Falcone is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and an affiliated faculty member of Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group and Applied Science and Technology Program. He chaired the Physics Department from 1995-2000. As of January 2018 he is a Professor of the Graduate School at Berkeley. He received his A.B. in Physics (1974) from Princeton, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1979) from Stanford, and was the Marvin Chodorow Fellow in Applied Physics (1980-83) at Stanford. He was the Director of the Advanced Light Source x-ray synchrotron facility at...

William Frazer

Professor Emeritus

Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley, since 1959, Emeritus since 1996. A.B. from Carleton College, 1954; M.A. from University of California, Berkeley, 1956; Ph.D. from University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1956-1957. University of California, San Diego, 1960-1981, Chairman of the Department 1975-1977; University of California Office of the President, Academic Vice President, 1981-1983; University of California System, Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs, 1983-1991.

Mary K. Gaillard

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of Paris, 1968, Professor at Berkeley since 1981. Member, National Academy of Sciences, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, l988 E.O. Lawrence Memorial Award, 1993 J.J. Sakurai Prize, Member, National Science Board, Member 1996-2002, American Philosophical Society.

Research Interests

I am interested in pushing particle theory beyond the well-established Standard Model. My work in recent years has focused on the symmetry breaking mechanism by which particles acquire masses, and more specifically on supersymmetry and supergravity. Supersymmetry provides a...

Gabriel Orebi Gann

Associate Professor

Gabriel attended the University of Cambridge in the UK from 2000 to 2004, where she received her BA and MSci in Natural Sciences. She went on to the University of Oxford, and was awarded her DPhil in Particle and Nuclear Physics in 2008. Her post-doctoral research was performed at the University of Pennsylvania, in Professor Klein's research group, working on SNO and its successor, the SNO+ experiment. Gabriel joined the U.C. Berkeley faculty in 2012.

Research Interests

I am an experimental particle physicist, with an interest in weakly interacting particles. My research focuses on...

Ori Ganor

Associate Professor

Ori Ganor received his B.Sc. in 1988 and his Ph.D. in 1996, both from Tel-Aviv University. He was a Robert H. Dicke fellow from 1996 until 1998 and an assistant professor from 1998 until 2001 at Princeton University. He joined the UC Berkeley Physics faculty as an associate professor in 2002.

Research Interests

My general field of research is String Theory, which is an umbrella term for a worldwide effort in theoretical high-energy physics, ranging from a quest for the fundamental Laws of Nature, looking at gravity under extreme conditions, applications and new models for particle...

Hernan Garcia

Associate Professor of Biophysics, Genetics, Genomics and Developmental Biology

Hernan G. Garcia obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2003. He then moved to Caltech where he obtained a PhD in Physics in 2011 working in the laboratory of Rob Phillips. From 2011 to 2014 he took a postdoctoral position in the Physics Department at Princeton University in the laboratory of Thomas Gregor first as a Dicke Fellow and later as a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface Fellow. Since 2015 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology and the Department of Physics...

Reinhard Genzel

Professor Emeritus, Co-Director, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

Reinhard Genzel received his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn (FRG) in 1978. He came to Berkeley as a Miller Fellow in 1980 and joined the Physics Department faculty as Associate Professor in 1981. He left Berkeley in 1986 to become Director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Munich (FRG) where he is also Honorary Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian University. In 1999 he came back to UCB as part-time Professor. Awards and Honors include the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society (1979), Presidential Investigator Award (1983), Newton Lacy Pierce Prize of the...

Naomi Ginsberg

Professor

Naomi S. Ginsberg is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences and Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Imaging Divisions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she has been since 2010. She currently focuses on elucidating the electronic and molecular dynamics in a wide variety of soft electronic and biological materials by devising new electron and optical imaging modalities that enable characterization of fast and ultrafast processes at the nanoscale and as a function of their...

Heather Gray

Associate Professor

Heather attended the University of Cape Town in South Africa from 1999-2005 where she obtained a BSc, BSc (Hons) and then a MSc in Physics. She then attended the California Institute of Technology and obtained her Ph.D. in Physics in 2011. She then worked at CERN as a Research Fellow and Research Staff Scientist from 2011-2017 before moving to LBNL as a Divisional Fellow in 2017. Heather joined the UC Berkeley faculty as assistant professor in 2019. She received the IUPAP C11 Young Scientist Prize in 2018. She is currently serving in a high-level management role within the ATLAS experiment...