Welcome to Our Newest Faculty Members
Get to know our newest faculty members and their research areas.
Biological Sciences
Gregory Thom
Assistant Professor, Genetic Resources/Ornithology Curator at the LSU Museum of Natural
Science
Research Area: Use of scientific collections that bridge evolution, ecology, and organismal biology to explore the processes driving bird diversification in the Tropics
Fan Zhang
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Systems biology of host-microbiome interactions
Chemistry
Clifton Wagner
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Investigation of novel inorganic synthetic methodologies
Sviatoslav Baranets
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Heteroanionic semiconducting materials and cluster compounds for energy applications
Geology & Geophysics
Roy Haggerty
Executive Vice President & Provost, Geology Professor
Research Area: Hydrology and environmental geology
Matthew Loocke
Assistant Professor of Research and Director of the Chevron Geomaterials Characterization
Laboratory
Research Area: Electron/X-ray Microbeam Analysis; Igneous Petrology; Mineral chemistry and mineral petrogenesis
Mathematics
Daniel Massatt
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Numerical Analysis, Spectral Theory, Multiscale Modeling, Quantum Theory, Topological Insulators, Incommensurate Materials, Electronic Structure
Fan Yang
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Mathematical Physics, Harmonic Analysis, Quantum walk, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
Alisina Azhang
Instructor
Research Area: G-Connections on Algebraic Curves
Timothy Homan
Instructor
Research Interest: Low Dimensional Topology
Physics & Astronomy
Prosper Ngabonziza
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Experimental Condensed Matter and Material Physics
Francois Mauger
Research Assistant Professor
Research Area: Theoretical Physics related to theoretical and applied ultrafast science, chemical physics, and their interaction with nonlinear dynamics
James Sauls
Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics
Research Area: Quantum Theory of Matter, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Information, Sensing & Computing
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