Physics and Astronomy Faculty

David D Allred - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1971
MS, Princeton University, 1973
PhD, Princeton University, 1977

Brian E Anderson - Assistant Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2001
MS, Brigham Young University, 2003
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, 2006

Adam Hyrum Bennion - Assistant Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2007
MEd, Southern Utah University, 2011
PhD, University of Michigan, 2021

Scott D Bergeson - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1990
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995

Branton J Campbell - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1993
MA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999

Karine Marguerite Chesnel - Associate Professor

MS, Ecole Normale Superieure, 1999
PhD, Joseph Fourier University, France, 2002

John S Colton - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1994
MS, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2000

Robert Clinton Davis - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1989
PhD, University of Utah, 1996

Benjamin Allen Frandsen - Assistant Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2011
MA, Columbia University, 2013
MPhil, Columbia University, 2014
PhD, Columbia University, 2016

Kent L Gee - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2001
MS, Brigham Young University, 2002
PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2005

Grant W Hart - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1977
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 1983

Gus L Hart - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1994
MS, University of California, Davis, 1997
PhD, University of California, Davis, 1999

Eric G B Hintz - Associate Professor

BS, Case Western Reserve University, 1988
BS, Case Western Reserve University, 1988
PhD, Brigham Young University, 1995

Eric W Hirschmann - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1991
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996

Michael DeLoss Joner - Research Professor

AA, Clark College, 1975
BS, Brigham Young University, 1979
MS, Brigham Young University, 1981

Duane B Merrell - Associate Teaching Professor

AS, College of Eastern Utah, 1980
BS, Utah State University, 1985
MA, Utah State University, 1988

David W Neilsen - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1992
MS, Brigham Young University, 1995
PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 1999

Tracianne Beesley Neilsen - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1992
PhD, University of Texas, 2000

Justin B Peatross - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1988
MS, University of Rochester, 1990
PhD, University of Rochester, 1993

Nathan D Powers - Assistant Teaching Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2006
MS, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2009
PhD, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2014

Darin A Ragozzine - Assistant Professor

BA, Harvard University, 2004
MS, California Institute of Technology, 2006
PhD, California Institute of Technology, 2009

Felipe Rivera - Assistant Professor

BS, University of California, Riverside, 2000
MS, Brigham Young University, 2010
PhD, Brigham Young University, 2012

Richard L Sandberg - Associate Professor

Micah Raymond Shepherd - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2005
MS, Brigham Young University, 2007
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, 2014

Scott D Sommerfeldt - Professor

BM, Brigham Young University, 1983
MS, Brigham Young University, 1986
PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1989

Denise Catherine Stephens - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1996
MS, New Mexico State University, 1999
PhD, New Mexico State University, 2002

Mark Kenneth Transtrum - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2006
MS, Cornell University, 2010
PhD, Cornell University, 2011

Jean-Francois S Van Huele - Associate Professor

BS, Brussels Free University, Belgium, 1979
PhD, Brussels Free University, Belgium, 1987

Richard R Vanfleet - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1992
MS, University of Illinois, 1994
PhD, University of Illinois, 1997

Christopher Bruce Verhaaren - Assistant Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2009
MS, Brigham Young University, 2010
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 2016

Michael J Ware - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1999
PhD, Brigham Young University, 2001