Ph.D. Physics

2025

2024

Mitchell Brickson

Seth Bruzewski

Birendra Dhanasingham

Pratik Kumar

Anupam Mitra 

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

See her LinkedIn profile.

Benjamin B. Johnson
Senior R&D Engineer at Phoenix, LLC. See his LinkedIn profile.

Fenfei Liu
See his LinkedIn profile

Michael D. Malik

See his publication list on iNSPIRE-HEP.

Elizabeth C. Merritt
Liz is currently a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratories. See her LinkedIn profile.

Robert A. Mesler
Robert is now living in California and working for the navy as a systems engineer. See his LinkedIn profile.

Anthony L. Salvagno
See his LinkedIn profile.

Laura K. Zschaechner
See her LinkedIn profile.

2012

Jonas T. Anderson

Alden M. Astwood

Aaron J. Denney

Justin D. Linford
Justin is currently a post-doc in the UNM Physics and Astronomy Department working on radio astronomy, AGN & blazars, VLBI polarimetry, high-energy astrophysics, and astronomical transient sources.

Vaibhav Madhok
See his LinkedIn profile
Jessica E. Metcalfe

Heather L. Partner

Katherine A. Richardson
Katie began working for United States Senator Martin Heinrich as a field representative in his Albuquerque office. Her portfolio includes both Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs, as well as technology, energy, education, women and LGBTQ issues.

Kathrin Spendier
Kathrin will be moving to Colorado Springs to join the research faculty in the Physics department at the University of Colorado Springs as a Research Associate. Her new job should be very exciting since she will have some influence on the development of the UCCS Center of the University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute, which is an interdisciplinary research initiative primarily involving Physics and Biology. See her bio on the XPrize Foundation and her LinkedIn profile.

Alexandre B. Tacla
Alex is currently a post-doc in the UNM Physics and Astronomy Department as part of the Center for Quantum Information and Control.

Marcelo A. Vogel
After graduation Marcelo will most likely join the physics department of the Catholic University of Chile as a postdoc working in the physics department which is part of the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) . Marcelo would divide his time between data analyses and service work at CERN, where he would participate in the ATLAS muon spectrometer upgrade.

Xuefeng Zhang
Xuefeng is currently a post-doc at Beijing-Normal University working on many dimensional general relativity.

2011

Fang Huang

See his lab website profile.

Roy W. Keyes

Roger "Andy" Maloney

Carlos A. Riofrio Almeida
Carlos will be moving to Germany to start as a postdoc in Jens Eisert's group at the Free University of Berlin to continue research in quantum information. See his profile on the NVidia website.

Paul A. Thorman
Paul has moved to Sacramento, where he is currently working as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Davis with Dr. Tony Tyson. His ongoing research includes more work on extending and improving the Deep Lens Survey, as well as modeling and preparation for the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

Collin M. Trail
Collin will be moving to Canada where he will be a post-doc at University of Calgary

Steven E. Tremblay
Steve will be moving to Curtin University in Perth Australia where he will hold a Post-Doctoral position and will work on detection of Fast Radio Transients (less than a few seconds) using some of the new instruments down there (such as the MWA and ASKAP).

2010

Lawrence J. Herskowitz
Lawrence is working at a big chemical supply company in Houston. He actually landed the job before he graduated and is doing software and hardware automation, two things he loves. See his LinkedIn profile.

Felix T. Jaeckel
Felix was hired as a postdoc with Steve Boyd here in the department of Physics and Astronomy. See his LinkedIn profile.

2009

Alexander R. Albrecht
Alexander is a Research Associate Professor in the UNM Physics Department. See his LinkedIn profile.

Bradley A. Chase
See his LinkedIn profile.

Emma Hague
Emma Hague is a Radiation Detection Researcher and Emergency Responder in the Washington, DC area. Previously Dr. Hague worked at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg. See her LinkedIn profile.

Ziya Kalay
Kalay is working as a Staff Applied Scientist at Ripple. See his LinkedIn profile

Sharon E. Meidt
Sharon is now a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Heidelberg, Germany. See her profile on INSPIRE-HEP.

Seth T. Merkel
See his profile on LinkedIn.

Christian P. Morath
Deputy Tech Advisor, Missile Warning/Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Branch, Space Vehicles Directorate at the Air Force Research Lab, at Kirtland AFB. See his LinkedIn profile.

Birk Reichenbach
Birk worked at a research company leading/ working in projects concerning the improvement of solar cells or the recycling of batteries. Now he is working part time as a lecturer for mathematics and statistics at the Fresenius College in Cologne while also taking care of the 2 children of himself and Iris, another UNM Physics PhD alumni. See his LinkedIn profile.

Iris Reichenbach
Iris is currently working as a team leader at a software company. She is responsible for developing software for the simulation of buildings and HVAC plants, mainly focusing on renewable energy like solar thermal and PV plants as well as heatpumps and CHP plants. See her profile on LinkedIn.

Malinda Suzanne Taylor
Suzanne is a Professor of Physics at Western Colorado University.

Andreas U. Velten
Andreas is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

2008

Sergio Boixo Castrillo
Sergio is Chief Scientist Quantum Computer Theory for Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. See his listing on Wikipedia.

Animesh Datta
Animesh is a group leader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Warwick.

Matthew B. Elliott
Matt continues to work on quantum information theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics, most notably in a recent collaboration with fellow UNM Physics alumnus, Sergio Boixo of Caltech.

Christina Hagemann
Christina is a postdoc at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. See her LinkedIn profile.

Clark A. Highstrete
Clark is an R&D manager at Sandia National Laboratories. See his LinkedIn profile.

Anita Parmar
See her LinkedIn profile
Johanna L. Turk
Johanna lives in Washington, DC and is working at the DOE. See her LinkedIn profile.

2007

Mohit H. Adhikari 
See his LinkedIn profile.

Bryan K. Eastin
Bryan is an engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation. See his LinkedIn profile.

Steven T. Flammia
Steven is a Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

Benji Lewis
Benji currently holds a postdoc in Nuclear Physics at SUNY, Stony Brook, NY.

David R. Macinnis
See his LinkedIn profile
Georgianna L. Martin
Georgianna is an Associate Professor of Physics at Hawaii Pacific University.

Vladimir Rekovic
Vladimir is currently a research associate at the University of Minnesota. See his LinkedIn profile

Lori L. Sanfratello
Lori is a postdoc working with Cheryl Aine at MIND (through the UNM Radiology Department), doing neuroimaging and states"I am doing exactly what I have been hoping to, so I am very happy to have gotten the position!" See her CV and her Facebook profile.

2006

George Heald
George will start a post-doc position in radio astronomy with the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy ( ASTRON, Dwingeloo) in September. See his LinkedIn profile

Robert F. Hobbs
Rob is an Associate Professor at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine.

Andrew Silberfarb
Drew is affiliated with the Center for Quantum Information and Control. See his LinkedIn profile.

2005

Matthew A. Drago
Matt is with Lockheed Martin in Florida. See his LinkedIn profile.

Steve Klinksiek
Steve is now teaching math & physics at Charter High School in the South Valley in Albuquerque, NM. See his LinkedIn profile.

Michael Nord
Michael is a scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University, working on various Space Remote Sensing and Radar projects, and is also part of a team with Goddard proposing a planetary probe in the next round of NASA New Frontiers Proposals.

Dmitri Smirnov
Dima is currently a postdoc research associate at the University of Notre Dame. See his listing at Florida State University.

Rene Stock
After graduating from University of New Mexico, Rene took on a postdoc position as Alberta Ingenuity Fellow at the newly founded Institute for Quantum Information Science at University of Calgary followed by a postdoctoral fellowship position at the Department of Physics at University of Toronto. Rene recently joined the Research and Model Risk Management group at Scotiabank Toronto to gain hands-on experience in quantitative finance and risk management. He is currently working on research and validation of models for evaluating risk for trading of energy derivatives and other commodities.

2004

Ian M. Hoffman
Ian is now an astrophysics teacher and basketball coach at the St. Paul's School in Concord, NH. He was with ITT Industries here in Albuquerque, primarily involved in radio and laser spectroscopy. (Sept 2006)

Douglas Hope
Doug Hope is a Research Assistant Professor at UNM Department of Physics since Fall 2009. His research involves the use of compressive sensing for space-object identification. See his bio at Georgia Tech.

Joseph M. Renes
Joseph is a faculty member at Technical University of Darmstadt. See his bio at ETZ Zürich.

Vladimir Smagley
Vladimir has a post-doc position at CHTM. See his LinkedIn profile.

Tracey Tessier
Trace is currently working for a company called"Senior Scientific" as a"Research Scientist" using magnetic nanoparticles detected by a SQUID sensor system to diagnose and/or treat diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer, and leukemia. Specifically, his job is to  Design and implement algorithms to solve the inverse magnetic field problem
Model the obtained field as a set of dipole sources
Create images based on these results that show where the nanoparticles are collecting

These images can then be used to determine whether e.g., Alzheimer's plaques, malignant tumors, etc. exist at the collection sites.

Peter C. Zimmer
Pete has a post-doc position with NESSI  here at UNM.

2003

Sonja Daffer
Sonja was awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Distinguished International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.  She is with the Quantum Optics and Laser Science department at Imperial College, London. See her LinkedIn profile.

Shohini Ghose
Shohini is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In summer of 2011, she received a prestigious Sera Bangali award in West Bengal (India) for her contributions to the field of science, which include her work on a ground-breaking study that will further the field of quantum physics. In 2014, she was named a TED fellow. See her Wikipedia entry.

James Gruetzner
James will continue his work in wavefront technologies (optics & instr) at Sandia. See his LinkedIn profile.

Keeran Maharajh
By Aug (2003), Keeran will be in position as a research post-doc in imaging and nuerosciences at UC-Denver Health Sciences. See his LinkedIn profile.

Edwin Pease
Ed has just joined Northrop Grumman Corp. here in ABQ as a Laser System Analyst.

Joachim Zeller
Joachim is working as a staff scientist and FARO TEchnologies Inc., Germany.

2002

Alex Brandl
Alex is working at the ARCS Seiberdorf Research GmbH in Austria.

Paul Kingsberry
Paul held a postdoc with MIT & Duke University.

Eric Moore
Eric is currently working at the DOE.

Mark Morgan Tracy
Mark is Principal Lecturer III in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of New Mexico.

Pranaw Rungta
Pranaw is a faculty member at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.

2001

Massoud Akhtari
Massoud is now (spring 2003) a Visiting Scientist at Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Hills, which position includes a professorship at UCLA.

Joshua Bienfang
Josh left the Air Force Lab and is now (fall 2002) involved in quantum cryptography with NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. He was awarded the Chairman's Prize (2001-02) for Best Dissertation, and UNMs 2003 Popejoy Dissertation Prize.

Gavin Brennen
Gavin is a postdoc w/ the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Innsbruck (2006).

Joe Collins
Joe is a Research Associate with CASA-Center, Astrophysics &Space Astronomy, at UC-Boulder.

Ray Nelson
The Lt. Col. began his teaching career at West Point in Aug 2001; by December, he'd been selected as an Academy Professor of Physics (i.e., he will profess physics at West Point throughout his career in the Army).

W. T. Williams
Tom has returned to UNM (fall 2004) and is a Research Associate Professor w/ NESSI

2000

Tom Pannuti
He has moved again! Tom was initially at MIT, and then he relocated to Pasadena in September '03 to accept a post-doc position at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech. He is now working as an assistant professor at the Morehead State University's Space Science Center , in Kentucky (F:06).

Brian Oetiker
Having started out as a Visiting Assistant Professor or Physics, Brian is now in a tenure-track position at Sam Houston State University, in Huntsville, TX (spring 2006).

Andy Rivers
Andy is teaching teaching at Northwestern University and Adler Planetarium, with a focus on astronomy education.

Matt Semak
Matt is now teaching and doing research at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

Jonathan Stohs
Jon has returned to ABQ (Jan 2002), and is working on high power fiber lasers and related issues at Kirtland AFB Lab.

1999

Nichelle Bruner
Nichelle is currently at ATK-MR.

Gary Condon
Gary is a staff member, Sensor & Systems Technologies, at MIT-Lincoln Lab in Lexington, MA. See his LinkedIn profile.

Jean George
Jean owns and operates Open Sky Software in Austin, TX.

Glenn Morrison
Glenn has left CalTech for the Big Island! He moved to Hawaii to take up a joint position

Russell Olson
Research Scientist (Hydrodynamics and X-Ray Physics) w/ Los Alamos Nat'l Lab

1998

Howard N. Barnum
Howard is now a visiting scientist at Perimeter Institute, was a staff member at LANL

Scott Eilerts
Scott is a Research Scientist and Black Mesa Capital in Santa Fe, NM.

Elinor Gates
Support Scientist at Lick Observatory in Mount Hamilton, CA

Michael A. Nielsen
Michael is doing free-lance work on methods for enhancing scientific communication and collaboration. See his Wikipedia page.

1997

Mark S. Gulley
Los Alamos, NM. See his bio as an Oklahoma State College of Arts and Sciences Alumnus

Christina Lacey
Christina is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Hofstra.

Ronald Manginell
Sandia Nat'l Labs

Steven McCready
LANL

Paul Pulaski
Optical Scientist with Wavefront Sciences here in Albuquerque

Daniel Rislove
Until Dec. '04, Dan was an Ass't Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin -Stevens Point. He left to pursue a law degree at UW-Madison. See his profile at Our Lady of the Falls Catholic Community.


Reinhard W. Stotzer
Reinhard is a Senior Internet Software Engineer, at Intel Corporation.

Benn H. Tannenbaum
Benn is the Associate Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, responsible for providing guidance on legislative and policy issues, informing constituencies on matters that impact them, and serving as a liaison between NNSA, Congress, tribal, state, and local governments

1996

Olympia Bakalis
Research Scientist at LANL. See her LinkedIn profile.

Mark R. Endicott
J. H. Fletcher and Company, Huntington, West Virginia. See his LinkedIn profile.

Christopher Fuchs
Staff Scientist w/ Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies, in NJ. See his LinkedIn profile

Shannon Hall
Member of Senior Professional Staff, System Identification & Modeling Group - PSA (APL), Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and proud mother of Naomi, who was born in Jan 2003. Lots more to see at the family's home page!

Philip Keating
Philip and Nicole welcomed Maeve Erin (above) on 2/15/01, and Finn Aaron (below) on 1/11/04. Philip is Director of Optical Engineering with Confluent Photonics Corp, in Andover, MA. See his LinkedIn profile.

Dennis Khetselius 11/17/63-2/7/05 

>Denis Khetselius, who earned his Ph.D. here in 1996 for his work on the twisting type-N prolongation problem ("Nonlocal Prolongations for the Twisting Type-N Einstein Vacuum Field Equations with One Killing Vector"), and who originally discovered the systen of vector-field-valued PDEs association with s/(2, C), passed away on February 7th. Although he had a rough month - spending about 3 out of the last 4 weeks in Presbyterian Hospital - friends said that he sounded energetic and upbeat the last night...glad to be home and not in a hospital bed. He spent most of the evening helping a friend with some physics problems. 

>Chuck Gasparovic, a colleague with the SoM, wrote: "I think that all of us who had contact with Denis - whether when he was imposingly strapping and healthy or after he was severely debilitated by ameloidosis - realized almost immediately what a fine human being he was - so intelligent, yet always humble and always thinking of those around him. He certainly suffered, both physically and psychologically, in these last few years of his disease. Yet he would always greet you with a smile, ask about your family, and want to talk about science, politics, hockey, anything but feeling sorry for himself. His strength was incredible. His mother, who lost her husband to the same disease, is, of course, grief stricken, but dealing with it."
William Moeur
Associate Scientist Algorithm Development Hyseq, Inc.See his research works on Research Gate.

Srikanth Raghavan
Currently a scientist with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, US Navy, Maryland (2021) See his LinkedIn profile.

Daniel J. Sheltraw, M.D Albuquerque Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
See his LinkedIn profile.

1995

Karl J. Dahlhauser
Lt. Col. Dahlhauser is assistant air attache with the U.S. Embassy in London. He was previously conducting research in laser heterodyne techniques for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at the Forschungsintitut für Optik in Tübingen, Germany

Victor Gamiz
(see also PhD-Optical Sciences, 1995) Victor is now Program Manager, Senior Research Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory - Directed Energy Directorate, Optics Analysis - AFRL/DESA, at Kirtland AFB here in ABQ. He was elected to the grade of Fellow of SPIE in December 2005. See his LinkedIn profile.

Dong-Seung Lee
Emcore Corp Bridgewater, NJ. See his profile on IEEE Xplore.

Steven M. Long
Albuquerque

Edward MacKerrow
Ed is now (6/04) a Technical Staff Member with T-13, Complex Systems-Theoretical Division, at LANL. He and spouse Melinda Baker, an artist, live in Santa Fe. See his website, In Light of Nature.

Adam Rusek
Physicist w/ Brookhaven National Lab. See his LinkedIn profile.

Donna Marie Siergiej
Donna has been a Consultant in Medical Physics here in Albuquerque, but she and her spouse are relocating to Brooklyn, NY, in May 2006, to be closer to family members. See her LinkedIn profile.

Lt. Col. Charles J. Wetterer
Associate Professor with the Dept of Physics, USAFA. See his Colorado College bio.

Steven R. Wilkinson
UT-Austin
See his LinkedIn profile.

1994

William T. Brown
Applied Research Associates, Alexandria, VA.
See him on Facebook.

Melissa Douglas
Sandia Nat'l Labs 
See her LinkedIn profile. Read the article  Her computational predictions help guide experiments at Z.

Michael Fikani
Research Scientist (Advanced Accelerator Applications) at LANL. See his LinkedIn profile and his Facebook page.

Mary Zayin Fuka
President of Quetzal Computational Associates, and Wild Rose Biophysics; she lives in Durango, CO. See her on Research Gate.

Shawn M. Gordon
President of S. M. Gordon & Associates, a firm that supplies HP 3000 utilities
See his LinkedIn profile.
Bryan Laubscher
Bryan is the president and founder of Odysseus Technologies in Olympia Washing where he resides with his wife, Ann Sabotta. See his LinkedIn profile.

Michael Ledlow 10/1/64-6/6/04

Michael Ledlow, staff astronomer at Gemini South, died suddenly in Denver on Saturday June 5th, 2004.

Michael had just attended the Gemini Science 2004 Conference in Vancouver and was on vacation with his family in Colorado.

Michael was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on October 1st, 1964. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in astrophysics at the University of Oklahoma in 1987, and attended UNM for his graduate work.  He obtained his Ph.D under Steve Gregory and Frazer Owen in 1994. Michael joined Gemini in June 2000 as a Gemini Science Fellow and was promoted to a tenure track astronomer in 2001.

Michael led an active life as a Gemini astronomer supporting both the community and his research career studying distant galaxies and galaxy clusters. His infrared work at Gemini South was instrumental in complementing research by the team leader, Dr. William Keel with the University of Alabama, and Dr. Frazer Owen with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Through a combination of radio, optical and infrared observations, they confirmed the existence of a giant, subatomic particle jet streaming from a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. The galaxy, known as 0313-192, first came to the attention of Dr. Owen more than 20 years ago during a galaxy survey he conducted using the Very Large Array (VLA).

Michael’s untimely death is a tragic loss for his family, the Gemini Observatory and the astronomical community.  He was beloved by many and will be greatly missed. Michael is survived by his wife Cheryl, two young daughters Alexandria and Abigail, and three step-daughters as well as numerous other family members.

See his obituary in the astrophysics data system and on the International Gemini Observatory website.

To the family and friends of Michael Ledlow:

What a shock to receive the announcement from the UNM PandA alumni exploder of Michael's untimely death.  Michael and I overlapped for a short time while I was finishing my Ph.D. with Jack Burns at UNM.  He had started out with Jack as well, but I think it was when Jack left UNM for Las Cruces that Michael started working more closely with Fraser Owen.
	
My overlap with Mike "Redrow" was long enough to have gained a wonderful rapport with an incredibly gentle man.  I shall always remember him for his easy smile, his gentle demeanour, and his quiet brilliance.  He shared an office with myself, my wife to be (Jodi Asbell, who also sends her condolences), and with a mutual friend, Jun-Hui Zhao, whose pronounciation of Michael's last name gave Michael his office nickname.
	
My deepest condolences go out to his young family, his colleagues, his friends, his parents, and of course his wife.  It breaks my heart to think his children have had their father ripped away from them at such a young age, and the only compensation I can think of is that Michael was such a principled and compassionate man, that he has likely imparted upon his children more of himself in his short time with them than many parents are able to do in a full lifetime.
	
God speed, Michael.
	
David Clarke (UNM class of 1988)	
Halifax

Robert Pastel
Ass't Professor of Computer Science at Michigan Tech
See his website and his faculty bio.

Lian Cheng Zou
Technology Development Division at Argonne Nat'l Lab, Naperville, IL

1993

Hans-Jorg Deeg
Based in Tenerife, his research is now focused on the detection of extrasolar planets. His wife (m. 1998), a native of nearby LaPalma Island, is a professor of psychology at La Laguna University. (NEWS RELEASE)
See his website and a description of his research.

Maj. Susan E. Durham
USAF Space Warfare Center, Fairfax VA  See her bio.

Monica Halka
Monica is the Associate Director of the Honors Program at Georgia Tech where she is an experimental physicist specializing in the interaction of light with atoms. She recently completed work on a set of six volumes on the periodic table of elements, received education grant funding from NSF, and was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. See her Amazon author page.

Pamela King Benicewicz
Pam was appointed as Associate VP of Research at the University of South Carolina.

Rob Price
Rob is with Geomatics Data Management, and he's fortunate to be able to work out of his home...gazing out at the mountains in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. He and Heather have been joined by Sarah and Matthew. See his LinkedIn profile.

Theodore Salvi
Logicon RDA, Albuquerque. See his listing on ScholarGPS.

John Chrysostom Stasko
Started out as Senior Research Scientist with Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI; then worked on a CERN Project at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He received an MD and worked in Wisconsin. As of 2011, he is the Chief Technology Officer with Applied Filter Technology in Seattle, WA. In 2013, John got hired by Lindberg Associates as a process engineer where he is working on research problems in physical chemistry as well as doing general engineering work. Currently, John is working as a professional engineer in chemical engineering designing sulfur dioxide plants as well as white liquor oxidation plants. In 2020, John moved to Ust-Ilimsk Siberia/Russia.

Andreas Stintz
Research Assistant Professor with the Center for High Tech Materials, here at UNM

Takahiro"Tak" Tsutsumi
Tak is currently (Sept 2005) living in Socorro and working at NRAO as a Japanese representative for the joint software development effort with the ALMA project. See his listing on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory website.

Xin Miao Zhao
Cirrus Logic, Austin, TX. See her LinkedIn profile.

1992

Bruce M. Kemmell
Bruce teaches physics and mathematics at the College of Santa Fe (2006).

John K. Prentice
We are sorry to report that John died January 5, 2010 of a massive hemmorrhage. His wife Mary Fuka and her brother were with him. John was recovering from a fractured skull but seemed to be improving until the hemorrhage. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all family and friends of John. He will be missed.

Lee Zhung Wang
Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA

Malcolm W. Wright
Optical Communications Group, Jet Propulsion Lab CalTech, Pasadena

1991

Bartram S. Abbott
Round Rock, TX

Melynda L Brooks
Technical Staff, Sub- atomic Physics, at LANL. See her LinkedIn profile.

Ximing Fan
Richardson, TX

Ilias Fernini
Assistant Professor at United Emirates University
See his Faculty bio.

Chibing Xu
Saginaw, MI

1990

Phillip Harris
A senior lecturer at the University of Sussex; he and spouse Lisa have two sons, Daniel and Alexander (b.2002).

Karl Dean Larson
Senior Scientist at Arion Systems, Inc. 
See his LinkedIn profile.
Jhy-Ming Luo
Department of Medicine III, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan

Amir Hossein Mohagheghi
Sandia Nat'l Lab See his LinkedIn profile.

T. David Nichols
owner/operator of Heliotrope Quality Systems(website design, database solutions, and search engine placement); just relocated from NM to Virginia (Dec 02).

Ismail Saleh Sabbah
Dept of Physics, Faculty of Science with Kuwait University. See his LinkedIn profile.

Honglu Wu
Space radiation and space radiation biology research at NASA Johnson Space Center; he is also an adjunct faculty member of the University of Houston, Clear Lake, Physics Department. See his profile on ResearchGate.

Jun-Hui Zhao
Jun-Hui is a Research Scientist w/ the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He and DanLi, a Computer Engineer w/ Broad Vision, live in Massachusetts.

1989

Craig A. Denman
Technical Director of the LITE Program at AFRL, Kirtland AFB, ABQ

Kyle J. Hendricks
SNL - Along with fellow members of the Narrow Band Source Team, Dr. Hendricks received the Air Force's Science and Engineering Award for Exploratory and Advanced Technology Development in Feb. 2002. See his profile on IEEE.

Jong-Dae Park
Dept of Physics and Natural Science Research Center at Paichai University, Korea. See his LinkedIn profile.

Saleem H. Zaidi
CEO of Gratings, Inc., a spinoff corporation of CHTM. See his LinkedIn profile.

Fang Xiao Zhao
Albuquerque

1988

Kyunam Choi
ThermoTrex Corp San Diego, CA See his profile on the Grace Mission University staff list.

David A. Clarke
Professor of Physics at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; engaged to Jodi Asbell (M.S.-UNM, 1989)...6/04.

Robert I. Lawconnell
Robert conducts research at the USAFAs Seiler Research Laboratory; he lives in Monument, CO.

Raymond W. Lemke
Z-Pinch and Target Theory Dept., Sandia National Labs

Eric R. Nelson
Eric is currently the Chair of the Computer Science Department at the Harker School in San Jose, California. See his LinkedIn profile.

M. Yasin Akhtar Raja
Associate Professor of Physics, specializing in optoelectronics, at UNC-Charlotte

Robert G. Spulak, Jr.
Senior analyst at the Strategic Studies Center, Sandia Nat'l Labs, Albuquerque

Nackchin Sung
Wonkwang University, Republic of Korea

1987

Antonio Corvo
Research Manager, Systran Corp, Dayton, Ohio; AF Retired 1998

Glen H. Daw
Glen is a triathelete who works at Kaman Aerospace Corp, Electro-Optics Development Center in Tucson, AZ.

Mark A. Dreger
United Technologies, Albuquerque. See his Google Profile.

Juan Manuel Elizondo-Decanini
Sandia Labs, ABQ

Ju Hwan Kang
Dept of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul

James R. Rotge
Rockwell Power Systems, Albuquerque

James E. Stewart
Professor of physics and astronomy at Western Washington University in Bellingham

Mohammad Yousaf
Alhuda Islamic Academy, Westborough, MA, and Principal Software Engineer at Open Market Inc.

1986

David J. Batuski
Department Chair and Professor of Physics at the University of Maine. See his profile on the Universi.

Stanley Cohen
Now owner/operator of EngineeredPhysics in Santa Fe (fall 2004).

Lonni C. Harrison
LANL

Kie Gon Im
Professor of Physics at Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea

Gregory E. Obarski
Optoelectronics Division-Sources and Detectors, NIST-Boulder

Leno M. Pedrotti
Professor of Physics at the University of Dayton

James F. Riker
AFRL

Paul S. Smith
Associate Astronomer at Steward Observatory, Univ of Arizona, and NOAO Tucson Nighttime Scientific Staff

1985

Harro Ackermann
Rockwell Int'l, KAFB

Brian H. Fishbine
LANL

Robert T. Heaphy
Sandia Nat'l Labs, and consultant to New Mexico Engineering Research Institute ( NMERI)

John M. Rabins
Town & Country Optical, Colorado Springs, CO

Randolph A. Reeder
Aerospace Engineering Dept., University of Colorado at Boulder

William S. Sheers
Professor of Physics, Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience, and SPS Faculty Advisor at Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA

1984

J. Douglas Beason
Associate Director for Defense Threat Reduction at LANL (Jan. 2005); formerly Phillips Research Site commander and deputy director of the Directed Energy Directorate; Colonel Beason was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000.

Kenneth B. Butterfield
Los Alamos, NM

Peter P. Denes
Research Staff with Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab

Robert W. Dunn
Professor of Physics at Hendrix College in Conway, AR

Joanna Lenar Jannson
President and CEO of Physical Optics Corp, Torrance, CA

Gershon Kurizki
Director of the Quantum Optics Group, Dept of Chemical Physics, at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel

1983

Julio R. Gea-Banacloche
Professor of Physics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Julio was named a 2004 APS Fellow for his contributions to the understanding of quantum- mechanical effects in the interaction of light with matter, and for his valuable service to the physics community as an associate editor of Physical Review A.

Paul A. Heckert
Professor with the Dept of Chemistry and Physics at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. He and Sue have three "kids"

Isaac I. Rosen
Radiation Physics at U/Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and affiliated with the Medical Physics Graduate Program at the Health Sciences Center - Houston

Abdullatif Ibrahim Salamah
College of Computer & Information Sciences, King Saud Univ., Saudi Arabia

1982

James A. Lupo
Air Force Research Lab, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate

1981

Eugene S. Hertel, Jr.
Manager, Thermal & Reactive Processes Department at Sandia Nat'l Labs

Alan H. Paxton Deceased January 22, 2024
Sr. Research Physicist working on high-average-power-laser development for the Air Force Research Laboratory. Organizer of an annual conference at SPIE Photonics West. He and wife Merideth live here in Albuquerque (Dec. 2016). See his obituary.

Stephanie A. Sonnleitner
Boulder Creek, CA

Richard E. Swanson
Committee Chair, AIP Advisory Committee on The Industrial Physicist, as well as Physics Professor and Dean of Instruction at Sandhills Community College, in Pinehurst, NC.

1980

Charles A. Frost
CEO of Pulse Power Physics, Inc., Albuquerque

Federica Zangrando
Federica is with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (award-winning Geothermal Research Team member), in Golden, CO.

1979

Alvin R. Larson
Los Alamos, NM

Robert G. Wenzel
Santa Fe, NM

1978

Michael J. Costello
Michael is Principal Scientist with Boeing, Anaheim, CA; he is married to Carol, plays keyboards in 'Watermelon,' a local blues band, and enjoys watching daughter Karen, 15, grow into a beautiful young woman.

Alan L. Dudley
Spectra Research Institute, Albuquerque

Richard A. Kant
Naval Research Lab Washington, D.C.

Ted D. Rupp
Honeywell FM (Retired)

Mohammad Hassan Sharifian-Attar
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Willard R. Thomas
ARES Corporation, ABQ

Gholam-Hossein Toutounchi
Hossein teaches intro physics at Cy-Fair College in Cypress, TX.

1977

Roger D. Carlini
CEBAF Associate Professor w/ William and Mary / Thomas Jefferson Nat'l Accelerator Facility in Virginia.

Reza Hashemi
(Hashemi-Attar Ali-Reza) Senior Consultant for Information Systems & Technology, and lecturer withPart-time Programs in Engineering and Applied Science at Johns Hopkins Institutions, Homewood Campus

Yao-Tang Liao
Institute of Organic and Polymeric Materials, National Taipei University of Technology

Leo J. Rahal
Geo-Centers, Inc., ABQ

1976

Constantine Cassapakis
President of L'Garde, Inc., Tustin, CA - the company analyzes, designs, manufactures, tests and flies inflatable space structural systems. (Retired)

1975

Philip J. Cooper
Sandia Nat'l Labs

Kailash C. Dhingra
Physics instructor at both UCSD and SDSU

Bruce C. Goplen
Original author of the MAGIC software; now with Mission Research Corporation Newington, VA

Richard A. Harris
Mission Research Corp here in Albuquerque

Paul A. Lovoi
President and CEO of Xoft microTube, Inc., Fremont, CA 

>See his LinkedIn profile.

Richard H. St. John
Mission Research Corp, ABQ

Ellery Storm 3/10/1924-7/4/1989
Ellery and his wife Bernice worked at Los Alamos until his death due to Parkinson's Disease; they had 17 great-grandchildren.

1974

Thomas R. Ferguson d. 2005

(Frank) Fun Min Wu
Frank was with the Space Sciences Center at USC, and he now lives in Sierra Madre, CA.

Sandra R. Zink
Executive Director of the New Mexico Consortium for Bioresearch (Dept of Health, SNL, and UNM)

1973

Gordon Banks
Still playing the banjo while practicing neurology in Yamhill County, Oregon; m. Charlee D. Banks in 1996

Fred Begay / Frederick Young
Sr. Staff Physicist and Community Relations at LANL; president of the Seaborg Hall of Science (non-profit education and research institution dedicated to providing public services to Navajo communities in science and technology). His biography first aired on NOVA in 1979 in "Long Walk of Fred Young"; in 2002 Fred was named a recipient of the UNM ZIA Award sponsored by the UNM Alumni Association. Dr. Begay passed away on April 30, 2013. A SACNAS founding member, physicist, and tireless advocate for diversity in the sciences, he will be greatly missed.

Lois M. Kieffaber
Professor of Physics at Whitworth College, Colbert, WA

George A. Kuck
Senior Manager, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Corp., Westminster, CA

1972

Albert Brunsting
He has had a long and successful career in medical diagnostic instrumentation, and now lives in Naperville, IL.

David N. Glidden
Albuquerque Academy Science & Computer Science Department faculty member

James R. Place
Physics / Astrophysics instructor at ABQ-TVI

Melvin L. Prueitt
Chairman of Solar Energy Ltd. in Los Alamos

1971

Marvin L. Chatkoff
Provided expert testimony against Houston Power & Light in the mid-80s

Ray Engelke
LANL

Stuart F. Hayes
Pleasanton, CA

Pyung Sky Ro
Korea

1970

James D. Cramer, August 4, 1937 — December 28, 2017
CEO of Science & Engineering Associates, Inc., Albuquerque  See his obituary.

Stephen J. Dalich
San Diego, CA

Carl G. Murphy
VP of Technology for Accord Solutions, Inc., in San Diego; he led the development of a multi-threaded, VLIW architecture and chip design that used multiple thread-based register sets.

1969

Jacqueline Hope Hill Ericksen
Placitas, NM

David G. Miller

1968

Jerome G. Beery
Albuquerque / Los Alamos

Ray Pollock, Jr.
Ray and Neva live in Gettysburg, PA

Donald S. Robb, 1929-1988

Edwin L. VandeNoord
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp, Boulder, CO

Donald R. Wheeler
NASA Glenn Research Center, Instrumentation and Controls Division, Cleveland, OH

John H. Wolcott
Vice President of Karta Technologies, Inc., San Antonio, TX

1967

Delmar W. Bergen
Nuclear physicist / Nuclear Weapons Control with U.S. Government - SALT Treaty negotiator, now residing in Albuquerque

Winifred Doyle Evans
LANL

Theodore S. Fahlen
Vice President of Intellectual Property and Research with Candescent Technologies Corp, San Jose, CA

W. Thomas Griffith
Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Pacific University in Oregon, and author of a nationally used textbook, Physics of Everyday Phenomena.

Michael D. Montgomery
Santa Fe

Darryl B. Smith
Los Alamos, NM

1966

John M. Palms
Dr. Palms became the 26th President of the University of South Carolina in 1991; he retired from that position in June (2002) in order to run for the U.S.Senate. He and Norma (they've been married for 44 years) have 3 children and 9 grandchildren. See his Wikipedia entry.

Michael Sydor
Professor in the Dept of Physics at the University of Minnesota-Duluth

1965

Dale D. Armstrong
Grapevine, TX

Edward R. Flynn
President of Senior Scientific, Inc., located here in Albuquerque

Russell G. Herron d. 1989 He taught at UCLA and at St. John's Seminary College in Camarillo, CA, from 1965-1989; this is his grandaughter's tribute

Carl E. Scheie
VP and Sr. Research Associate of Golf Technology with Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Rosemont, IL

1964

E. Royce Fletcher
retired from the Lovelace Institutes (TLI), formerly Lovelace Biomedical Education and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque

Martin S. Tierney
Now retired from SNL, Martin and Gaile live in Santa Fe.

1963

John F. Barnes
LANL retiree living in Santa Fe (summer 2003)

James A. Grundl
NIST - Ionizing Radiation Division, Gaithersburg, MD

Ralph A. Nobles May 29, 1920 – Feb 20, 2015
Retired nuclear physicist Nobles has been the leading figure in preventing development on Bair Island, a 3,000-acre tract of islands and tidal marshes in the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay (see Metro Publishing news article). He is also a San Mateo County Planning Commissioner and chairman of Restore San Francisco Bay Associates. Ralph and Carolyn live in Redwood City, CA (July 03). See his obituary.

1962

William E. Stein, May 30, 1924 - Sept. 17, 2014
Principal of Industrial Radiation, Inc., Los Alamos

See his obituary.

Crawford J. MacCallum
Adjunct Prof here at UNM

1961

James R. Barcus
9/30/1930-1/3/1988
The Barcus Glacier, in the Hutton Mountains, was named by US-ACAN for James R. Barcus, who was an ionospheric physics researcher at Byrd Station in the summers 1966-67 and 1967-68.

Albert Goodman
Scientific/Business Consultant, president of Wizard Technologies, Inc., here in Albuquerque

1960

Alan W. Peterson deceased June 6, 2009
Colbert, WA

See his obituary.

1958

Robert T. Lofberg September 16, 1922 - July 30, 2013
El Paso, TX. See his obituary.

1957

James F. Kenney
Houston, TX

1955

Mercedes Merner-Agogino
Professor Emerita of Physics, ENMU. She was recognized in 2017 for the New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering Lifetime Achievement IMPACT! Award.

1954

John W. Bond, Jr.
Lakeland, FL

1952

Richard J. Runge
Geophysicist and former CEO of Petrosoft (software adaptations). Deceased April 22, 2007. See his obituary.

George ("Bill") William Rollosson, October 13, 1923 - February 25, 2012
Sandia Labs 1952-65, SR International 1965-69, Menlo College in Atherton CA 1969-91; lived in Fort Collins, Colorado. See his obituary.

1950

David Pomeroy 1897-1974 
He wrote the first UNM Dept of Physics & Astronomy doctoral dissertation (1950). Dr. Pomeroy subsequently taught at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and conducted research at the Army Medical Research Lab, Fort Knox.

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