Areas of Research

Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Circumstellar disks and planetary atmospheres
• Astro-particle physics and cosmology
• Gamma-Ray Astronomy
• Meteorites and Stardust
• Nuclear Astrophysics
• Radioactivity
• Star and Planet Formation
• Stellar Evolution
• Stellar Atmospheres
• Supernovae

Atmospheric and Space Physics

• Atmospheric dynamics using ground-based remote sensing techniques
• Atmospheric dynamics using satellite data
• Experimental ionospheric physics and data analysis: ionospheric and auroral electrodynamics, rocket-based hardware
  development, incoherent scatter radar data analysis, and high frequency (HF) remote sensing of the bottomside ionosphere and software defined radio (SDR) hardware development.
• Observational study and numerical modeling of the atmospheric dynamics and space weather, atmospheric gravity waves, planetary waves and tides
• Studies of the dynamics of the ionosphere, including waves and turbulence
• Waves, instabilities, and turbulence in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

• Electron Beam Ion Trapping (CU-EBIT)
• Spectroscopy with cold, trapped atomic and molecular ions
• X-Ray Spectroscopy - x-ray spectroscopy, highly charged ions, high energy radiation, biomedical physics

Biophysics

• Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics Laboratory
• Nano-Bio Laboratory
• Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Biomolecules Laboratory
• Single-molecule Biophysics Laboratory
• Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy and Cell Biophysics Laboratory

Condensed Matter Physics

• Complex and Advanced Materials Lab (CAML)
• Nanomaterials
• Quantum Computation
• Surface and Interface Nanoscience
• Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Oxides
• Theory of Materials
• Ultrafast Photophysics of Devices Lab