60 faculty and 0 courses in Physics at University of Chicago.
- Mark Oreglia, Professor Emeritus h-index 148
Notable: “Neutrino tridents andW-Zinterference” (1991) · 263 citations
- David Miller, Professor h-index 131
Es on answering open questions about the fundamental structure of matter. By studying the quarks and gluons -—the particles that comprise everyday protons and neutrons —produced in the energetic collisions of protons at the Larg
Notable: “Perceived security and World Wide Web purchase intention” (2001) · 671 citations
- Daniel Holz, Professor h-index 111
Notable: “Cosmology intertwined: A review of the particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology associated with the cosmological tensions and anomalies” (2022) · 1,184 citations
- David Awschalom, Professor h-index 106
Notable: “Spintronics: A Spin-Based Electronics Vision for the Future” (2001) · 11,393 citations
- Sidney Nagel, Professor h-index 92
Notable: “Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops” (1997) · 6,300 citations
- John Carlstrom, Professor h-index 91
Notable: “First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole” (2019) · 4,163 citations
- Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, Professor h-index 87
Notable: “Synthesis and Characterization of Strongly Luminescing ZnS-Capped CdSe Nanocrystals” (1996) · 2,830 citations
- Robert Wald, Professor h-index 80
Notable: “Black hole entropy is the Noether charge” (1993) · 2,496 citations
- Heinrich Jaeger, Professor h-index 78
Notable: “Granular solids, liquids, and gases” (1996) · 2,902 citations
- David Schmitz, Professor h-index 76
Notable: “Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance at theΔm2∼1 eV2Scale” (2007) · 500 citations
- Peter Littlewood, Chair, Department of Physics h-index 74
Superconductivity and superfluids, strongly correlated electronic materials, collective dynamics of glasses, density waves in solids, neuroscience, and applications of materials for energy and sustainability. Particular areas of cur
Notable: “Bose–Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons” (2006) · 3,225 citations
- Dam Son, University Professor h-index 71
Notable: “Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics” (2005) · 2,855 citations
- Carlos Wagner, Professor h-index 63
Notable: “Electroweak symmetry breaking and bottom-top Yukawa unification” (1994) · 687 citations
- Marcela Carena, Professor h-index 60
Notable: “Review of Particle Physics” (2018) · 7,219 citations
- Jeffrey Harvey, Professor h-index 58
Notable: “Strings on orbifolds” (1985) · 1,854 citations
- Thomas Witten, Professor Emeritus h-index 55
Notable: “Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics” (1980) · 9,421 citations
- David Kutasov, Professor h-index 55
Recent years was on a number of questions in field and string theory. One is the dynamics of strongly coupled field theories such as Quantum Chromodynamics, and in particular qualitative phenomena such as confinement and chiral symmetry
Notable: “comments on string theory on $AdS_3$” (1998) · 506 citations
- Michael S. Turner, Professor Emeritus h-index 54
Notable: “Consensus statement on concussion in sport—the 5th international conference on concussion in sport held in Berlin, October 2016” (2017) · 3,313 citations
- Kathryn Levin, Professor h-index 53
Notable: “Heat Capacity of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas” (2005) · 390 citations
- Robert Rosner, Professor h-index 52
Notable: “Dynamics of the quiescent solar corona” (1978) · 1,436 citations
- LianTao Wang, Professor h-index 51
Notable: “Jet trimming” (2010) · 629 citations
- Cheng Chin, Professor h-index 50
Es on experimental atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics. Recent works include laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation of atoms and molecules, strongly interacting Fermi gas, Feshbach and Efimov states, quantum information science
Notable: “Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases” (2010) · 3,835 citations
- Juan Collar, Professor h-index 50
Notable: “Results from a Search for Light-Mass Dark Matter with ap-Type Point Contact Germanium Detector” (2011) · 810 citations
- David DeMille, Research Professor h-index 48
Notable: “Search for new physics with atoms and molecules” (2018) · 1,556 citations
- Vincenzo Vitelli, Professor h-index 48
Notable: “Flexible mechanical metamaterials” (2017) · 1,750 citations
- Bonnie Fleming, Professor h-index 45
Notable: “Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering” (2002) · 614 citations
- Linda Young, Part-time Professor h-index 43
Notable: “Femtosecond electronic response of atoms to ultra-intense X-rays” (2010) · 785 citations
- Guy Savard, Part-time Professor h-index 43
Notable: “A new cooling technique for heavy ions in a Penning trap” (1991) · 627 citations
- Abigail Vieregg, Professor h-index 39
Notable: “Detection ofB-Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2” (2014) · 1,591 citations
- Clay Córdova, Associate Professor h-index 37
Notable: “Exploring 2-group global symmetries” (2019) · 298 citations
- Keisuke Harigaya, Assistant Professor h-index 35
Notable: “Axion Kinetic Misalignment Mechanism” (2020) · 211 citations
- Michael Levin, Professor h-index 33
Notable: “Detecting Topological Order in a Ground State Wave Function” (2006) · 2,123 citations
- William Irvine, Professor h-index 33
Notable: “Topological mechanics of gyroscopic metamaterials” (2015) · 811 citations
- Savdeep Sethi, Professor h-index 32
Like mathematics, occasionally computer science and information theory. Filter by: Reset Filters Role Faculty Staff Graduate Students Research Scientists Postdocs Visiting Faculty Incoming Graduate Students Emeriti Faculty Past Chairs Resea
Notable: “M-theory, orientifolds and G-flux” (1999) · 945 citations
- Melvyn Shochet, Professor Emeritus h-index 28
Notable: “Atomic-weight dependence of muon-pair production in 225-GeV/cπ−-nucleus interactions” (1982) · 10 citations
- Andrew Higginbotham, Assistant Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Exponential protection of zero modes in Majorana islands” (2016) · 1,075 citations
- Arvind Murugan, Associate Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Entanglement as a probe of confinement” (2007) · 471 citations
- Wendy Zhang, Associate Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Drop Splashing on a Dry Smooth Surface” (2005) · 759 citations
- Henry Frisch, Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Production ofπ+andπ−at Large Transverse Momentum inp−pandp−dCollisions at 200, 300, and 400 GeV” (1977) · 87 citations
- Woowon Kang, Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Unusual Hall Effect Anomaly in MnSi under Pressure” (2009) · 429 citations
- Paolo Privitera, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Decay correlations in e+e− → τ+τ− as a test of quantum mechanics” (1992) · 28 citations
- Stuart Gazes, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Chair h-index 16
Notable: “Dynamic Influence of Valence Neutrons upon the Complete Fusion of Massive Nuclei” (1980) · 197 citations
- Luca Delacrétaz, Assistant Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Theory of hydrodynamic transport in fluctuating electronic charge density wave states” (2017) · 103 citations
- Zoe Yan, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Probing site-resolved correlations in a spin system of ultracold molecules” (2023) · 109 citations
- Yau Wah, Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Search for the Weak Decay of a Lightly BoundH0Dibaryon” (2000) · 29 citations
- Savan Kharel, Associate Instructional Professor h-index 7
Notable: “On duality of color and kinematics in (A)dS momentum space” (2021) · 90 citations
- Mohamed Abdelhafez, Associate Instructional Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Speedup for quantum optimal control from automatic differentiation based on graphics processing units” (2017) · 135 citations
- Scott Wakely, Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Cosmic-ray Isotope Measurements with HELIX” (2019) · 12 citations
- Dahlia Klein, Assistant Professor
- Edward Blucher, Professor
- Elizabeth Jerison, Assistant Professor
- Karri DiPetrillo, Assistant Professor
Notable: “On-chip probabilistic inference for charged-particle tracking at the sensor edge” (2026)
- Luca Grandi, Professor
- Margaret Gardel, Professor
- Michael Rust, Professor
Notable: “Determining subunit-subunit interaction from statistics of cryo-EM images: observation of nearest-neighbor coupling in a circadian clock protein complex” (2023)
- Pavel Wiegmann, Professor
- Robert Hunt, Assistant Professor
- Stephanie Palmer, Associate Professor
- Young-Kee Kim, Professor
Has been understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles (the Higgs mechanism), one of the central questions in physics. Prof. Kim’s research group has led precise measurements of both the W and top-quark masses (predicting
- Zosia Krusberg, Director of Graduate Studies and Senior Instructional Professor
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.