News from the Chair

 

Youngwoo Yi
Youngwoo Yi
Jessica Dowell
Jessica Dowell
Diana Dragomir
Diana Dragomir
Tonmoy Chakraborty
Tonmoy Chakraborty

Please welcome our new faculty and staff for Fall 2020



Tonmoy Chakraborty (tchakraborty@unm.edu) is our new faculty member in biophotonics. His family arrived in Albuquerque from Dallas but are quarantining until Aug 13. After that he will be at PAÍS getting his lab (2413) set up. He'll be teaching PHYS 1310 remotely this upcoming semester. His office is 2244.

Diana Dragomir joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy as a Research Assistant Professor in August, 2019, and will start as an Assistant Professor this fall. See her website.

Jessica Dowell starts as a Lecturer (Mickey Odom's old position) this fall. She has already been working very hard this spring and summer to create online versions of most of our intro labs.

Youngwoo Yi (yyi@unm.edu) is our new Advanced Lab Coordinator (Mike Hasselbeck's old position). He has been performing similar duties at CU Boulder and brings with him a wealth of experience. Youngwoo got his PhD at the Colorado School of Mines and has carried out research on the optical properties of surfaces. He will be in PAÍS 1406.