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Department of Physics & Energy Science

Professors
Richard Blade
  • Professor Emeritus
  • retired
  • email: rblade@uccs.edu
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  • Ph.D.: University of Colorado at Boulder, 1964
  • awards and honors:
    • College of LAS Outstanding Teaching Award
    • Chancellor's Award

James Burkhart
  • Associate Dean, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Professor
  • Chair, Department of Physics and Energy Science
  • Director, Western Regional Radon Training Center
  • 719-262-3214
  • email: jburkhar@uccs.edu
  • office: Engineering Bldg. 207
  • Publications and Presentations
  • Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 1973
  • Research Interests:
    • Mathematical Physics: axiomatic techniques
    • Applied Physics:
      • Correlation of measured radon levels and geological formations,
      • the physics of radon measurement.
  • awards and honors:
    • Presidential Teaching Scholar (1991)
    • campus Outstanding Teaching Award (1982)
    • College of LAS Outstanding Teaching Award (1986)
    • Chancellor's Award (1995)

     

Robert Camley:
  • Professor
  • Graduate Program Advisor
  • 719-262-3512
  • email: rcamley@uccs.edu
  • office: Engineering Bldg. 208
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  • Ph.D.: University of California at Irvine, 1979
  • Research Interests:
    • Theoretical Solid State Physics:
    • Magnetic and electronic properties of artificially layered structures (superlattices),
    • surface excitations,
    • optical and magneto-optical signal processing.
  • awards and honors:
    • Presidential Teaching Scholar
    • Chancellor's Award (2005)
    • campus Outstanding Teaching Award (1986)
    • College of LAS Outstanding Teaching Award (1986)
    • campus Outstanding Research Award
    • College of LAS Outstanding Research Award

Zbigniew Celinski:
  • Professor
  • 719-262-3583
  • email: zcelinsk@uccs.edu
  • office: Engineering Bldg. 214
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  • Ph.D. : Simon Fraser University, 1992
  • Research Interests:
    • Experimental Solid State Physics:
    • Growth and characterization of ultra-thin metallic films and multilayers,
    • magnetic materials,
    • Brillouin light scattering, ferromagnetic resonance,
    • exchange coupling in magnetic thin films.
  • awards and honors:
    • College of LAS Outstanding Research Award (2004)
    • campus Outstanding Research Award

 

Thomas Christensen:
  • Dean, Letters, Arts, and Sciences
  • Associate Professor:
  • 719-262-4552
  • email: tchriste@uccs.edu
  • Tom's WWW Page
  • offfice: Columbine Hall 2025
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  • Ph.D. : Cornell University, 1985
  • Research Interests:
    • Experimental Solid State Physics:
    • Surface physics of metals, polymers and semiconductors;
    • oxidation, tribology,
    • optical properties, rough surfaces
    • physics of paper
  • awards and honors:
    • College of LAS Outstanding Teaching Award (1993)
    • campus Outstanding Teaching Award (1996)
    • Chancellor's Award (2003)

Anatoliy Glushchenko:
  • Assistant Professor
  • 719-262-3130
  • email: anatoliy.glushchenko@uccs.edu
  • office: Engineering Bldg. 210
  • Ph.D. : Institute of Physics, Ukranian Academy of Sciences, 1997
  • Research Interests:
    • Soft Matter Physics
    • Liquid Crystals,
    • Applied Optics, Materials Science
  • awards and honors:
    • Inventor Recognition Award - Kent State University (2004)

Marek Grabowski:
  • Associate Professor
  • 719-262-3189
  • email: mgrabows@uccs.edu
  • office: Engineering Bldg. 216
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  • Ph.D. : University of Kentucky, 1981
  • Research Interests:
    • Theoretical Solid State Physics:
    • Chaos, nonlinear physics, solitons,
    • one and two dimensional systems, polymers.
    • Complex Systems
  • awards and honors:
    • College of LAS Outstanding Teaching Award (1989)
    • campus Outstanding Teaching Award (1989)

Anatoliy Pinchuk:

  • Ph.D.: National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 1999
  • Research Interests:
    • Nanooptics
    • Plasmonics                                   
    • Photonics,
    • Colloidal Chemistry
    • Negative Index of Refraction
    • Metamaterials.
  • awards and honors:
    • Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Germany (2002)
    • Collaborative in Basic and Engineering Grant, National Academy of Sciences, USA (2002)
    • INTAS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Belgium (2004)

 

 
 
Instructors
Sam Milazzo
  • Senior Instructor                                           
  • 719-262-3191                                                                                           
  • email: smilazzo@uccs.edu
  • Office: Engineering Bldg. 211
  • M.S. : University of North Texas, 1989
  • awards and honors:
    • campus Outstanding Instructor Award
    • College of LAS Outstanding Instructor Award

Ramon Tirado

Robert Gist


Lecturers and Lab Instructors:

  • Bill Bair, bairb@titan.com
  • Michal Maik, mmaik@uccs.edu
  • Brian Africano, bafricano@uccs.edu
  • David Smith, dsmith2@uccs.edu
  • Tim Fal, tfal@uccs.edu
  • Eric Weiner, eweiner@uccs.edu
  • John Jackson, tscience@rmi.net
  • Ian Harward, iharward@uccs.edu