Faculty and Staff

Physics Department 2024

Full-Time Faculty Part-Time Faculty Adjunct Faculty	Emeritus Postdocs	Staff Grad Students

Full-Time Faculty
Name	Position	Web Site/Email
Roby Austin	Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Science — Curriculum
Malcolm Butler	Professor	Contact
Gregory Christian	Associate Professor	Contact
Ivana Damjanov	Tier II Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor	Contact
Luigi Gallo	Professor, Chairperson	Contact
Vincent Henault-Brunet	Associate Professor	Contact
Marcin Sawicki	ICA Director, Professor	Contact
Ian Short	Professor, Undergrad Advisor	Contact
Rob Thacker	Professor, Graduate Advisor	Contact
Aldona Wiacek	Associate Professor; cross-appointment with Environmental Science (ENVS)	Contact

Part-Time Faculty
Name	Position	Contact
Jodi Asbell-Clarke	Part-time Instructor	Contact
Kevin Brown	Part-time Instructor	Contact
Richard Cisek	Part-time Instructor	Contact
John Gallant	Part-time Instructor	Contact
Patrick Kelly	Part-time Instructor	Contact
Shahideh Kiehbadroudinezhad	Part-time Instructor	Contact
Doug Pitcairn	Part-time Instructor	Contact
Cameron Reed	Part-time Instructor	Contact
Laura Stiles-Clarke	Part-time Instructor	Contact
Shruti Tripathi	Part-time Instructor	Contact

Emeritus
Name	Position	Contact
Robert Deupree	Professor Emeritus
David Guenther	Professor Emeritus
George Mitchell	Professor Emeritus
David Turner	Professor Emeritus
Gary Welch	Professor Emeritus

Adjunct Faculty
Name	Position	Contact
Friedhelm Ames	Adjunct Professor	Contact
Phil Bennett	Adjunct Professor	Contact
Ruohong Li	Adjunct Professor	Contact

Postdocs
Name	Position	Contact
Dr. Gaia Gaspar	Studies of galaxy formation and evolution	Contact
Dr. Adam Gonzalez	Studies X-ray emission from active galactic nuclei	Contact
Dr. Rosa María Mérida	Studies of galaxy formation and evolution	Contact
Dr. Kiyoaki Omori	Studies of galaxy formation and evolution	Contact
Dr. Michele Pizzardo	Studies of galaxy formation and evolution	Contact
Dr. Rinku K. Prajapat	Experimental nuclear physics - rare isotope studies with radioactive ion beams
Dr. Jennifer Sanchez Rojo	Experimental nuclear physics - rare isotope studies with radioactive ion beams
Dr. Yerong Xu	Studies X-ray emission from active galactic nuclei	Contact

Staff
Name	Position	Contact
Shannon Rhode	Department Assistant - Astronomy/Physics	Contact
Tiffany Fields	Astronomy Technician	Contact
Michael Dunlavy	Science Technician - Physics	Contact
Dr. Sergiy Khan	ACENET Computational Research Consultant	Contact
Phil Romkey	ACENET Systems Administrator	Contact

Graduate Students
Name	Position	Contact - Shannon Rhode
Jordan Adamski	M.Sc. candidate
Abigail Battson	M.Sc. candidate
Margaret Buhariwalla	Ph.D. candidate
Lingjian (Lejay) Chen	Ph.D. candidate
Eloise Desmarais	M.Sc. candidate
Nolan Dickson	Ph.D. candidate
Amanda Edwin	Ph.D. candidate
Jeremy Favaro	Ph.D. Candidate
Angelo George	M.Sc. candidate
Thomas Hodd	M.Sc. candidate
Sora Ishida	M.Sc. candidate
Kavinda Liyanage	M.Sc. candidate
Nikhil Nikhil	Ph.D. candidate
Divyang Prajapati	Ph.D. candidate
Aritra Roy	Ph.D. candidate
Saurabh Sawant	Ph.D. candidate
Cameron Semenchuck	M.Sc. candidate
Mukhwinder Singh	Ph.D. candidate
Fraser Smith	Ph.D. candidate
Devin Williams	Ph.D. candidate

(Photo courtesy Danielle Boudreau)

Astronomy & Applied Science graduate students 2019-2020:

Back row: A. George, P. Mungara, D. Blue, O. Workman, M. Hellmich

Front row: P. Jassal, A. Gonzalez, L. Chen, M. Buhariwalla, K. Kaur,

Missing: M. Cavenaile, M. Singh, P. Subramaniyam

Contact us

Department of Astronomy and Physics

chair@ap.smu.ca

902-496-8218

Offices: Atrium, 3rd floor, Main Office: AT 319

Mailing address:

Saint Mary's University

Halifax Nova Scotia

B3H 3C3