"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." --George Wald

Affiliate Faculty

Affiliate faculty are faculty members who either are self-employed or are full-time employees of an organization other than CSU. Affiliates play an important role in research efforts in the department. They serve on M.S. and Ph.D. advisory committees of our graduate students, and provide advice and resources. Affiliate faculty members are nominated for that position by a regular faculty member with whom they collaborate.

In the 2007-8 academic year, the affiliate faculty (and the regular faculty member with whom they work) in our department are:
Robert Camley is Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. He is a theoretical physicist who research interests are primarily in magnetism and magnetic devices.

Robert Camley
Eric Craine Eric Craine is founding director of the Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes. In that capacity he has been involved in the development and application of multiple scan mode telescopes for a long term program of imaging of a broad band of sky near the equatorial plane. In addition to his astronomical research, Dr. Craine has spent the past 20 years working on a broad range of biomedical engineering projects, many of which benefit from technology transfer of imaging techniques employed in his astrophysical endeavors.

David Fritts is director of Colorado Research Associates and an adjunct faculty member with Physics and the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado. He has worked in a number of areas of atmospheric dynamics, having broad experience with both theoretical and experimental activities. David Fritts
Pavel Kabos

Pavel Kabos is a Physicist in the Electromagnetic Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado. His research is focused on experimental high frequency condensed matter physics, spin-dependent transport, nonlinear spin wave excitations; high frequency imaging using scanned probe microscopes, electromagnetic properties of materials, nanomagnetism, biomolecular detection, and nanomanufacturing.

Mark Lindsay received a PhD in physics from Harvard in 1990. His field was experimental atomic physics: laser spectroscopy of atoms and molecules. He was a postdoc at University of Virginia, and then at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He was an assistant professor of physics at University of Louisville until 2000. His family moved to Hawaii in 2001, and since then he has taught physics at Iolani school, where 11th grade physics is the same as most college sophomore physics classes. During each of the past few summers he has spent some time with Prof. S. Lundeen at CSU working on spectroscopy of Rydberg states of hydrogen molecules.

Mark Lindsay
Fernando Rodriguez

Fernando Rodríguez is Professor (Catedrático) of Condensed Matter Physics in the Department of Earth Sciences and Condensed Matter Physics of the University of Cantabria (Spain). He leads the High Pressure & Spectroscopy Group. His main research field is the optical properties of materials, searching for correlations with their structural and magnetic properties. His attention is mainly focused on Jahn-Teller systems, impurities, defects and localised centers formed in insulators and semiconductors.

William "Gregg" Sturrus is Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Youngstown State University. His research interests are the study of high angular momentum Rydberg states of atoms and molecules. Most of his experimental work in this area aims to relate measured multipole moment properties of ions to those determined theoretically. Gregg Sturris
Tingdun Wen

Tingdun Wen is Professor of Physics at the North University of China. He also serves as Chief Editor of the journal of Test and Measurement Technology, Vice-Dean of the Science Faculty, and Vice-Chair of the Degree Committee of the North University of China. His research is focused on the study of the "meso-piezoresistive effect" in materials.

Jeffrey Yarger

Jeffrey L. Yarger is Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Arizona State University and Director of the Magnetic Resonance Research Center. His research program is engaged in a wide variety of soft matter materials and biochemistry projects that focuses on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and combined optical, neutron and x-ray scattering techniques.