Faculty Profiles
Physics Department Faculty contact and bio information
- Department: Physics
- Office Location: Building 58, Room 101
Dr. Muhammad Maqbool earned a Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from Ohio University and an M.S. in Medical Physics from the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published 120 peer-reviewed articles and holds a US patent for inventing the smallest AlN:Ti microlaser on optical fiber.
- Department: Physics
- Office Location: Building 58, Room 112
Dr. Mehrdad Adibzadeh joined the Department of Physics in 2018 and since then has taught a range of courses.
- Department: Physics
- Office Location: Building 58, Room 102
Dr. Khagendra Bhattarai has received a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from the University of South Florida. He has more than 15 years of undergraduate teaching experience. His research interests include Optics, Photonics, and Metamaterials and he has co-authored nine peer-reviewed journal articles.
- Department: Physics
- Office Location: Building 58, Room 005
Dr. Chandra Prayaga, who has 35-plus years teaching experience, has helped raise more than $3 million in funding for research and projects involving UWF faculty and students.
- Department: Physics
- Office Location: Building 58, Room 007
Dr. Mitra H. Shabestari earned her Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on experimental subatomic physics, and she collaborates on projects at Jefferson Lab with over 40 peer-reviewed publications.
- Department: Physics
- Office Location: Building 4, Room 141
Dr. Laszlo Ujj earned a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Szeged, Hungary. He has over 25 years of college teaching experience with some at the graduate level. Before joining UWF in 2001, he worked as a research scientist at the University of Arizona for nine years.
- Department: Physics
- Office Location: Building 58, Room 006
- Personal UWF Website
Dr. Aaron Wade received a Ph.D. in Physics from Florida State University, where he wrote his dissertation on “Quantum Cascade Lasers in High Magnetic Fields.”
Adjunct Faculty
Physics department Adjunct Faculty contact information.
Ross Dickinson
- Adjunct Faculty
- Department: Physics
- emailrdickinson@uwf.edu
Dr. Alla Krivosheyeva
- Adjunct Faculty
- Department: Physics
- emailakrivosheyeva@uwf.edu
Dr. Otto Richter
- Adjunct Faculty
- Department: Physics
- emailorichter@uwf.edu