People Group Archives: Faculty

Enrique del Barco received his PhD from the University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2001 for his investigations of spin quantum dynamics in single-molecule magnets. He spent three years as a postdoctoral associate in the physics department at New York University before joining UCF in 2005.

Dr. Joshua Colwell is the interim dean of the College of Sciences (COS) at the University of Central Florida. Colwell received his B.S. in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Stetson University and a Ph.D. in Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has been on the faculty […]

Dr. Chernyak received his PhD in Physics from Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) in 1996. He spent one year (1996-1997) as a Research Associate in the Departments of Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA) and Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas, USA). He joined UCF in 1999 where he is a Professor. […]

Dr. Chen received his PhD in Physics from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 2007. He spent one year(2007-2008) as a Visiting Fellow and three years (2008-2011) as a Research Fellow in National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. He joined UCF in 2011 and he is currently an Associate Professor.

Dr. Zhongzhou Chen earned his Ph.D. in physics from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 2012, specializing in physics education and multimedia learning. In 2013 he joined the RELATE group at MIT as a postdoc, conducting educational research in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the edX platform, mentored by Prof. David Pritchard. His current […]

Biography Dr. Debashis Chanda is a Professor in the Department of Physics.

After a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the University of Maryland, Dr. Campins spent nearly five years at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson. In 1989, he accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Florida, were he attained the rank of Professor in 1997. While at the University of Florida, Dr. Campins was Director of […]

Dr. Brueckner received his Ph.D. in Physics from Montana State University, Bozeman MT in 1997 where he later spent one year (1997-1998) as an adjunct instructor. He spent one year (1998-1999) as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of the Virgin Islands, the land grant university in the United States […]

Dr. Bhattacharya earned his undergraduate degree (BS – Physics Honors) from Presidency College, Kolkata, MS (Physics) from University College of Science, Kolkata, India, and received his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter Physics from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1992.  He held positions as a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State University, and as a […]