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

• • • Nanomaterials

    • Quantum Computation

    • Surface and Interface Nanoscience

    • Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Oxides

    • Theory of Materials

• Ultrafast Photophysics of Devices Lab