People Group Archives: Faculty

Dr. Ishigami received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. He has been on the faculty at UCF since 2008.

Dr. Michael Johnson is the Provost and  Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Physics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia, and came to UCF in 1990 following postdocs at the University of Kentucky and Indiana University. His research is in theoretical condensed matter physics. He has […]

Dr. Harrington began observing and modeling giant planets as an undergraduate at MIT. His pre-impact model of the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994, part of his MIT PhD thesis in planetary sciences, was published on the cover of Nature and sparked the worldwide media spree surrounding that event. Dr. Harrington then […]

Dr. Fernandez received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999. He spent 3-years (1999-2002) as a Scientific Researcher  and 3-years (2002-2005) as a SIRTF/Spitzer Fellow in University of Hawai’i before joining UCF in 2005, where he is an Associate Professor of Physics.

Dr. Elena Flitsiyan received her Ph.D. in Physics and Math from the Moscow State University in 1975. She was the Chair of Department of Activation Analysis in the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Uzbekistan before joining UCF in 1998. Since 2009 she has been the Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Physics at UCF.

Dr. Li Fang is an Assistant Professor in the department of Physics, UCF.

Dr. Feng received his B.S. in Physics from Peking University in 2007, his M.S. in Physics from Tsinghua University in 2009, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in December 2013. He spent two and a half years as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University before joining UCF […]

Dr. Efthimiou received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from Cornell University in 1994. He was a Lecturer in Cornell University for one year (1994-1995). He spent 2-years as a Research Associate in Tel Aviv University (1995-1997). He was a Visiting Scientist in Harvard University for one-year (1997-1998) and in Cornell/Columbia University for 2-years (1998-2000) before […]

Dr. Dubey received her PhD in Physics from  Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, India in 1998. She worked as a Post Doctoral Research Associate in RPI, Troy, NY as well as at UCF. She joined UCF in 2001 where she is an Associate Lecturer.