Richard Gaitskell
Center Director, Hazard Professor of Physics
Email / 401-863-9783
Professor Gaitskell leads a research team hunting for direct evidence of particle dark matter. His group is working on an experiment, LUX, that has the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector located in the underground laboratories in the Sanford Lab, South Dakota.
Stephon Alexander
Professor of Physics
Email / 401-863-6803
Professor Alexander is a theoretical physicist specializing in the interface between cosmology, particle physics, and quantum gravity (String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity).
Ian Dell’Antonio
Professor of Physics
Email / 401-863-1154
Professor Dell’Antonio’s research centers on observational cosmology, the experimental measurement of the fundamental properties of the universe.
JiJi Fan
Assistant Professor of Physics
Email / 401-863-2623
Professor Fan works on particle theories, particularly beyond Standard Model theories such as Higgs phenomenology, supersymmetry, dark matter models and signatures.
Loukas Gouskos
Assistant Professor of Physics
Professor Gouskos specializes in experimental particle physics, with a primary focus on studying the properties of the Higgs boson and searching for physics beyond the standard model. Leveraging cutting-edge Deep Learning techniques, his research extends to diverse areas within particle physics.
Ulrich Heintz
Professor of Physics
Email / 401-863-6817
Professor Heintz is an experimental physicist studying the fundamental building blocks of matter. His interest is in testing the validity of the standard model of elementary particle physics at very high energies.
Savvas Koushiappas
Professor of Physics
Director of Graduate Studies
Email / 401-863-6816
Professor Koushiappas’ theoretical work is in the interface between cosmology and particle physics. His work is predominantly in the area of dark matter physics and the search for the nature of the dark matter particle from an experimentally-motivated theoretical perspective.
Greg Landsberg
Thomas J Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics
Email / 401-863-1464
Professor Landsberg’s experimental research is in broad areas of beyond the standard model and Higgs physics, including exotic Higgs boson decays, searches for dark matter, supersymmetry, exotic particles, extra spatial dimensions, and black holes.
Matt LeBlanc
Professor LeBlanc is an experimental particle physicist whose research is directed towards improving hadronic final state reconstruction at the Large Hadron Collider to perform new precision measurements of the Standard Model and searches for new particles.
Jonathan Pober
Professor of Physics
Email / 401-863-1301
Professor Pober is an experimental astrophysicist. His research focuses on the history of the universe through observations of neutral hydrogen on cosmic scales. He develops ultrasensitive radio telescopes for his astronomical observation.
Jennifer Roloff
Assistant Professor of Physics
Professor Roloff is an experimental particle physicist working on the CMS experiment. Her work focuses on precision tests of QCD, searches for physics beyond the Standard model, and novel reconstruction and calibration methods for jets.
Greg Tucker
Professor of Physics
Email / 401-863-1441
Professor Tucker is an experimental astrophysicist. His cosmology group studies the universe by measuring the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and by intensity mapping of neutral hydrogen. He is also interested in measuring the characteristics of exoplanets.
Stephen Bach
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Professor Bach’s research areas include machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.
Stephen Parman
Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Email / 401-863-3352 / Research Profile
Professor Parman’s research areas include the behavior of volatiles in the Earth’s interior and the thermal evolution of the Earth, noble gas solubility within the Earth’s mantle, mantle structure and evolution, and experimental petrology.
Alex Evans
Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Email / 401-863-1287 / Research Profile / Geophysics of Stellar System Targets (GHOSST) Computational Laboratory
Professor Evans’ research areas include the evolutionary, tectonic, geodynamic, and geophysical processes of solid planets. His work includes analyses of altimetry, gravity, geomorphology, and tectonics to determine the structure, surface, and internal evolution of solid planets.
Emeritus Faculty
David Cutts
Professor of Physics
Email / 401-863-2422
Professor Cutts is an experimental physicist specializing in elementary particle physics. His research develops high energy techniques including computer-related systems for particle physics.