Physics at Creighton University

12 faculty and 35 courses in Physics at Creighton University.

Faculty

• Janet E. Seger, Faculty h-index 35
  Notable: “STARlight: A Monte Carlo simulation program for ultra-peripheral collisions of relativistic ions” (2016) · 339 citations
• David L. Sidebottom, Associate Chair h-index 30
  Include: Carbon Nanodots - investigation of the role of simple sugar solutions in the production of fluorescence carbon particles. Supercooled Liquids - investigation of the dynamics of ultraslow liquids near their glass transition point us
  Notable: “Universal Approach for Scaling the ac Conductivity in Ionic Glasses” (1999) · 320 citations
• Jack Gabel, Graduate Program Associate Director h-index 20
  Notable: “The Ionized Gas and Nuclear Environment in NGC 3783. I. Time‐averaged 900 KilosecondChandraGrating Spectroscopy” (2002) · 330 citations
• Michael G. Nichols, Graduate Program Director h-index 19
  Notable: “The Mechanism of Photofrin Photobleaching and Its Consequences for Photodynamic Dosimetry” (1997) · 227 citations
• Andrew Ekpenyong, Faculty h-index 17
  Notable: “Real-time deformability cytometry: on-the-fly cell mechanical phenotyping” (2015) · 756 citations
• Andrew Baruth, Faculty h-index 16
  Notable: “Magnetization dynamics triggered by surface acoustic waves” (2010) · 91 citations
• Sam J. Cipolla, Faculty h-index 13
  Notable: “ISICS: A program for calculating K-, L- and M-shell cross sections from ECPSSR theory using a personal computer” (1996) · 123 citations
• Jonathan Wrubel, Faculty h-index 9
  Notable: “Antihydrogen Production within a Penning-Ioffe Trap” (2008) · 110 citations
• Gintaras Duda, Department Chair h-index 8
  Astro-particle and TEP Research Links Funding Recent Astro-Particle Physics Publications Selected Recent Astro-Particle Presentations Group Pictures and Events Book traversal links for Astro-Particle Research Group Research Interests › Prin
  Notable: “Dark Matter: A Primer” (2010) · 197 citations
• Patricia Soto, Faculty
• Tom Wong, Faculty
• Tom Zepf, Faculty

Courses

• Frontiers in Astronomy PHY 105
• Introductory Astronomy PHY 109
• Astronomy Laboratory PHY 110
• Science for a Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth Systems PHY 123
• Earth System Science Laboratory PHY 124
• Sound and Music PHY 127
• Quantum Physics and Technology for Everyone PHY 131
• Living in a Material World PHY 152
• Sustainable Energy PHY 157
• Conceptual Physics PHY 187
• Exploring the Frontiers of Physics PHY 191
• General Physics for the Life Sciences PHY 201
• General Physics for the Life Sciences II PHY 202
• General Physics Laboratory I PHY 205
• General Physics Laboratory II PHY 206
• General Physics for the Physical Sciences I PHY 213
• General Physics for the Physical Sciences II PHY 214
• Advanced General Physics I: Modeling the Physical World PHY 221
• Advanced General Physics II: Modeling the Physical World PHY 222
• Project Physics Laboratory I PHY 223
• Project Physics Laboratory II PHY 224
• Modern Physics PHY 301
• Modern Physics Laboratory PHY 302
• Electronics Laboratory PHY 303
• Physics in Medicine PHY 351
• Introduction to Biological Physics PHY 353
• Research Methods PHY 397
• Classical Mechanics PHY 471
• Electricity and Magnetism PHY 481
• Physics Seminar PHY 491
• Directed Independent Readings PHY 493
• Directed Independent Study PHY 495
• Directed Independent Research PHY 497
• Research Capstone PHY 499
• Physical Optics PHY 511

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.