Faculty
Sean M. O’Malley, Department Chair and Associate Professor
B.S., Seton Hall University, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Synchrotron-based x-ray diffraction of novel device structures, time-resolved photoluminescence of Group-III Nitrides, Pulsed Laser Deposition of nano-Scale Multiferroics.
Office: CNS 216F
Email: omallese@camden.rutgers.edu
Web: https://crab.rutgers.edu/~omallese/
Phone: (856) 225-6159
Grace Brannigan, Associate Professor
B.A., Reed College, Ph.D., University of California – Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Computational biophysics, particularly dynamics of ion channels and other signaling proteins, as well as free energies of ligand-protein interactions.
Office: JHSC 213B
Email: grace.brannigan@rutgers.edu
Web: https://www.branniganlab.org
Phone: (856) 225-6780
Fax: (856) 225-6624
Julie Griepenburg, Assistant Professor
B.S., Seton Hall University, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Nanoparticle functionalization and light-activation.
Office: CNS 216E
Email: jg1151@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone: (856) 225-6293
Jiantao Kong, Assistant Professor
B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.D., Boston College
Research Interests: Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics, Plasmonics, Metamaterials.
Office: CNS 216G
Email: jiantao.kong@rutgers.edu
Phone: (856) 225-6294
Cory Trout, Instructor Academic Year, Lab Coordinator
B.S., Rutgers-Camden
Office: CNS 216C
Email: cory.trout@rutgers.edu
Phone: (856) 225-2930
Part Time Lecturers
Brian Folkes
B.S., M.S., Drexel University
Email: brian.d.folkes@gmail.com
Jerry Gambs
BSME, MSMS, Villanova
Email: jgambs@pit.edu
Web: https://crab.rutgers.edu/~gambs/
Fax: (856) 225-6624
Administrative Staff
Kelly Esterly, Departmental Secretary
Office: BSB 322
Email: kelly.esterly@rutgers.edu
Phone: (856) 225-6077
Retired/Emeritus
E. Roger Cowley
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Cambridge
Research Interests: Theoretical lattice dynamics and the thermal properties of matter. Particular interest in computer simulations of solids and ferroelectricity.
Email: cowley@camden.rutgers.edu
Web: https://crab.rutgers.edu/~cowley/
Fax: (856) 225-6624
L. John Gagliardi
B.S., Villanova; Ph.D., Temple
Research Interests: Physical and chemical mechanisms in the cell division of primitive eukaryotic cells; possible influence of cellular organelle electric charge distributions and electric fields on cell division.
Email: gagliard@camden.rutgers.edu
Web: https://crab.rutgers.edu/~gagliard/
Fax: (856) 225-6624
Frank A. Blood
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve
Email: CaseyBlood@gmail.com
Web: https://implications-of-quantum-physics.com/index.html