Faculty
Brett Andrews
Research Assistant Professor
Carlos Badenes
Associate Professor
Marilena Bandieramonte
Research Associate
Brian Batell
Assistant Professor
Rachel Bezanson
Assistant Professor
Riccardo Maria Bianchi
Research Associate
Joseph Boudreau
Professor
Daniel Boyanovsky
Professor
Matteo Broccio
Lecturer II
Wolfgang J. Choyke
Research Professor Emeritus
Russell J. Clark
Senior Lecturer
Robert Coalson
Professor/Secondary Appointment
Xuefend Cui
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Istvan Danko
Lab Instructor
Robert P. Devaty
Associate Professor
Anthony H. Duncan
Professor Emeritus
Gurudev Dutt
Associate Professor
Steven A. Dytman
Professor Emeritus
Eugene Engels
Professor Emeritus
Min Feng
Adjunct Professor
Ayres Freitas
Associate Professor
Sergey Frolov
Associate Professor
Patrick D. Gallagher
Professor
George G. Gatewood
Professor Emeritus
Tao Han
Distinguished Professor of High Energy Physics
Michael Hatridge
Assistant Professor
D. John Hillier
Professor
Tae Min Hong
Assistant Professor
Patrick Irvin
Research Associate Professor
Allen I. Janis
Professor Emeritus
David Jasnow
Professor Emeritus
Rainer Johnsen
Professor Emeritus
Peter F. M. Koehler
Professor Emeritus
Arthur Kosowsky
Professor
Sangyeop Lee
Assistant Professor/Secondary Appointment
Adam K Leibovich
Professor
Jeremy Levy
Distinguished Professor
James V. Maher, Jr.
Distiguished Service Professor
Roger Mong
Assistant Professor
James A Mueller
Professor
Jeffrey A Newman
Professor
Ezra (Ted) Newman
Professor Emeritus
Max Niedermaier
Research Associate Professor
Burcu Ozden
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Vittorio Paolone
Professor
David Pekker
Assistant Professor
Hrvoje Petek
R. K. Mellon Professor
Richard H Pratt
Professor Emeritus
Tom Purdy
Assistant Professor
Sandhya M Rao
Research Professor
Ralph Z Roskies
Professor
Hanna Salman
Associate Professor
Vladimir Savinov
Professor
Regina E Schulte-Ladbeck
Professor Emeritus
Paul F Shepard
Professor Emeritus
Chandralekha Singh
Professor, Director, Discipline-based Science Education Research Center
John Stein
Part-time Lecturer
Joerg Harald Stelzer
Research Assistant Professor
Eric S. Swanson
Professor
Frank Tabakin
Professor Emeritus
Shijing Tan
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Martin C Vincent
Professor Emeritus
Jeffrey Winicour
Research Professor
Michael Wood-Vasey
Associate Professor
Yan Xu
Professor/Secondary Appointment
Judith Yang
Professor/Secondary Appointment
Andrew R Zentner
Professor
Jin Zhao
Adjunct Professor
Graduate Students
Amro Eldaw Babo Abdelrahim
Graduate Student
Hassan Alnatah
Graduate Student
Rudrajit Banerjee
Graduate Student - 2017-18 Graduate Student Mentor
Jonathan Beaumariage
Graduate Student
Ali Beheshti
Graduate Student
Runyu Bi
Graduate Student
Emily Biermann
Graduate Student
Megan Briggeman
Graduate Student
Elizabeth Burnette
Graduate Student, MS Candidate
Robert Caddy
Graduate Student
Hongbo Cai
Graduate Student
Shuyang Cao
Graduate Student
Lisong Chen
Graduate Student
Tzu-Chiao Chien
2017-18 Graduate Student Mentor
Travis Court
Graduate Student
Sonja Cwik
Graduate Student
Biprateep Dey
Graduate Student
Melanie Dieterlen
Graduate Student
Corey Dominick
Graduate Student
Daniel Doucette
Graduate Student/2019-20 Dietrich School TA/TF Mentor and GS Mentor
Motasem ElGamel
Graduate Student
Christian Farina
Graduate Student (Part-time)
Catherine Fielder
Graduate Student
Erin Fierro
Graduate Student
Brian Flores
Graduate Student
Atreyie Ghosh
Graduate Student
Maksim Gomanko
Graduate Student
Louis A Gonzalez
Graduate Student
Tianping Gu
Graduate Student
Yilun Guan
Graduate Student
Qing Guo
Graduate Student
Angad Gupta
Graduate Student
Jared Hand
Graduate Student
Shan Hao
Graduate Student
Evan Harris
Graduate Student
Nathan Herring
Graduate Student
Nicholas Hougland
Graduate Student
Marcell Howard
Graduate Student
Thomas Hyatt
Graduate Student
Namitha James
Graduate Student/2019-20 Graduate Student Mentor
Malcolm Jardine
Graduate Student/2019 Graduate Student Mentor
Yifan Jiang
Graduate Student
Karan Kapoor
Graduate Student
Ryan Kaufman
Graduate Student
Yasha Kaushal
Graduate Student
Mihir Khanna
Graduate Student
Ryan Koester
Graduate Student
Maryam Kohram
Graduate Student
Olivia Lanes
Graduate Student - former Graduate Student Mentor & APAGS Co-president
Ryan LeFebre
Graduate Student
Sze Ching "Iris" Leung
Graduate Student
Yangqiuting "Doris" Li
Graduate Student
Zehan Li
Graduate Student /2019-20 Graduate Student Mentor
Hongkai Liu
Graduate Student
Chenxu Liu
Graduate Student - 2017-18 Graduate Student Mentor
Pinlei Lu
Graduate Student
Cameron Mahoney
Graduate Student
Alysa Malespina
Graduate Student and 2019 Senior TA for Introductory Labs
Christine Mazzola
Graduate Student and 2019-20 Graduate Student Mentor
Sebastian Merkt
Graduate Student
Benjamin Messerly
Graduate Student
Lorena Mezini
Graduate Student
Raphael Monroy
Graduate Student
Maria Mucci
Graduate Student
Sanchayeta Ranajit Mudi
Graduate Student
Shouvik Mukherjee
Graduate Student
Ava Myers
Graduate Student
Aditi Nethwewala
Graduate Student
Chi Wing Ng
Graduate Student
Ahmed Omran
Graduate Student
Yun-Yi Pai
Graduate Student
Tong Pang
Graduate Student
Brian Pardo
Graduate Student
Jacory Parker
Graduate Student
Param Patel
Graduate Student
Alan Pearl
Graduate Student
Daniel Perrefort
Graduate Student - APAGS 2017 Co-president
Amrita Purkayastha
Graduate Student
Troy Raen
Graduate Student
Mudit Rai
Graduate Student
Tasnum Reza
Graduate Student
Logan Rice
Graduate Student
Amy Sanderson
Graduate Student
David Setton
Graduate Student and APAGS Co-president
Qian Song
Graduate Student
Megan Splettstoesser
Graduate Student
Juntong Su
Graduate Student
Nicholas Suarez
Graduate Student
Erin Sutton
Graduate Student
Yuhe Tang
Graduate Student - 2016-17 Graduate Student Mentor
Harsh Vashistha
Graduate Student
Kuan Wang
Graduate Student
Zehua Wang
Graduate Student
Tianyi Wang
Graduate Student
Erfei Wang
Graduate Student
Orlando Warren
Graduate Student
Kyle Whitcomb
Graduate Student
Pubudu Wijesinghe
Graduate Student
Mingkang Xia
Graduate Student
Dengyu Yang
Graduate Student
Yang Yang
Graduate Student
Zixin Yang
Graduate Student - 2016-17 Graduate Student Mentor
Muqing Yu
Graduate Student
Azarin Zarassi
Graduate Student
Jingchen Zhang
Graduate Student
Yike Zhang
Graduate Student - Leave of Absence
Bomin Zhang
Graduate Student
Zhikang Zhou
Graduate Student
Chao Zhou
Graduate Student
Peijun Zhu
Leave of Absence
Staff
Shawn Artman
Senior Machinist
Robert Breze
Payroll/Personnel Coordinator
Louis Coban
Electronics Technician (Allegheny Observatory)
Barbara DelRaso
Center Administrator (PQI/db-SERC)
Dave Emala
Electronics Shop Supervisor
Shannon Falk
Travel and Business Coordinator
Katie Ferguson
Undergraduate and Outreach Coordinator
Chuck Fleishaker
Engineering Technician
Tom Gasmire
Machine Shop Supervisor
Joni George
PITT-PACC Center Administrator
Gracie Jane Gollinger
Computer Consultant (CSSD)
Leyla Hirschfeld
Graduate Administrator
Lou Lane
Facilities Coordinator
Laura McCarthy-Blatt
Fiscal Administrator
Jim McNerney
Engineering Technician
Richard Misura
Physics Demonstration Assistant
Lori Neu
Scientific Glass Blower
Cindy Niznik
Administrative Officer
Lynn Ruminski
Sponsored Projects, Post Award
Jeff Sicher
Machine Specialist
412-624-8412; 412-624-9219
Michele Slogan
Academic Operations Manager
Jim Stango
Physics Demonstrator
Bill Strang
Senior Machinist
Greg Strom
Administrative Assistant to Hrvoje Petek
Jeff Tomaszewski
Senior Machinist
Jennifer Ursida
Sponsored Projects, Pre Award
George Zuk
Engineering Technician
