Physics and Astronomy at Rice University

1 faculty and 0 courses in Physics and Astronomy at Rice University.

Faculty

• Christopher Tunnell, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy; William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair h-index 40
  His research interests are related to computational challenges in physics, including data analysis, simulations, statistics, and machine learning applications. As a professor in both Computer Science and Physics & Astronomy, his students get trained in both de
  Notable: “Lowering the radioactivity of the photomultiplier tubes for the XENON1T dark matter experiment” (2015) · 98 citations

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.