Full Time Faculty

Ranko Heindl

Assistant Teaching Professor

Tsing-Hua Her

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

Link Faculty Web Site Biography Ph.D. Applied Physics – Harvard University (1998) Specialty: Laser resonators; waveguide optics; nonlinear and ultrafast optics; spectroscopy, sensing and imaging; laser matter interaction and pattern formation.

Thomas Hutchens

Research Assistant Professor

Hutchens Lab

Donald Jacobs

Professor, Applied Physics Graduate Program Director

Link Faculty Web Site Biography Ph.D. Physics, Purdue University (1992) Specialty: Statistical and computational physics

Pedram Leilabady

Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator and Academic Advisor

Link Faculty Web Site Biography Ph.D. Physics – University of Kent at Canterbury (1988) Specialty: Solid-state lighting, Optical fiber communications, Optical sensors & amplifiers

Farida Mohiuddin-Jacobs

Associate Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

Yuri Nesmelov

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

Link Faculty Web Site Biography Ph.D. Physics and Mathematics – Kazan State University, Kazan, Russian Federation (1992) Specialty: Biological molecular motors, electron paramagnetic resonance/EPR, transient time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer/TR2FRET

Rosario Porras-Aguilar

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

Personal Webpage: https://pages.charlotte.edu/porrasaguilarresearch/

Menelaos Poutous

Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Optics and Graduate Program Director

Links Faculty Web Site Micromachines Journal

M. Yasin Akhtar Raja

Professor of Physics and Optical Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering (Adjunct), Undergraduate Advisor

Professor of Physics and Optical Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering (Adjunct) Link Faculty Web Site Biography Ph.D. Optical Physics – University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (1988) Specialty: Photonic devices, Optical communication networks, VCSELs, Optical amplifiers, High-power lasers