List of University of Oregon faculty and staff
Academic faculty -- Natural sciences
Table:
Name

Term

Position(s)

Notability

Reference

James E. Brau

Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science; Director, Center for High Energy Physics

High Energy Particle Physicist; ATLAS experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; LIGO; International Linear Collider

[34]

Carlos Bustamante

Former professor of chemistry

Molecular Biologist

Patrick G. Carrick

Former Director of the Shared Laser Facility

Katharine Cashman

Former Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science

Geologist, vulcanologist

[35]

Thomas Condon

Former Professor of Geology

Geologist and paleontologist

Russell Donnelly

1966–1972
1982–1983

Former Physics Department chair; retired Professor of Physics

Physicist renowned in the field of low temperature physics

[36]

Jon Driver

1990–1991

Former visiting Assistant professor of Psychology

[37]

Sarah Ann Douglas

Professor Emerita of Computer & Information Science

Known for her pioneering research in human-computer interaction; elected to European Academy of Sciences, June 2002

Ira Herskowitz

1972–1981

Former professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology

Geneticist

[38]

Stephen Hsu

Former professor of theoretical physics

Co-founder of SafeWeb

Ray Hyman

Professor emeritus of psychology

One of the founders of the modern skeptical movement

[39]

Ramesh Jasti

2014-present

Professor of chemistry

First organic chemist to synthesize the elusive cycloparaphenylene

Huaxin Lin

Professor of mathematics

Eugene Luks

Professor emeritus of computer science

Known for his research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory

Stephanie A. Majewski

Assistant professor of physics

Experimental high energy particle physics; Department of Energy Early Career Research award

[40]

Brian Matthews

Professor emeritus of physics

Biochemist, biophysicist

[38]

Helen Neville

1995–present

Professor of psychology and neuroscience

Neuroscientist

[41]

Ivan M. Niven

Former professor of mathematics

Number theorist; former president of the Mathematics Association of America

Aaron Novick

Founder of the Institute of Molecular Biology

Member of the Manhattan Project

[38]

Geraldine Richmond

1985–present

Professor of Chemistry

Chemist, Recipient of the National Medal of Science

[42]

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James E. Brau ( born 1946 ) is an American physicist at the University of Oregon ( UO ) who conducts research on elementary particles and fields . He founded the Oregon experimental high energy physics group in 1988 and served as director of the UO Center for High Energy Physics from 1997-2016 . Prior to joining the Oregon faculty , he served in the Air Force and held positions at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the University of Tennessee . He is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and also the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2006 he was appointed the Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science , an endowed professorship .
The experiment is a collaboration involving roughly 3,000 physicists from 183 institutions in 38 countries . The project was led for the first 15 years by Peter Jenni , between 2009 and 2013 was headed by Fabiola Gianotti and from 2013 to 2017 by David Charlton . The ATLAS Collaboration is currently led by Karl Jakobs .
The Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) is the world 's largest and highest-energy particle collider and the largest machine in the world . It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories , as well as more than 100 countries . It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres ( 17 mi ) in circumference and as deep as 175 metres ( 574 ft ) beneath the France-Switzerland border near Geneva . First collisions were achieved in 2010 at an energy of 3.5 tera electronvolts ( TeV ) per beam , about four times the previous world record . After upgrades it reached 6.5 TeV per beam ( 13 TeV total collision energy , the present world record ) . At the end of 2018 , it entered a two-year shutdown period for further upgrades . The collider has four crossing points , around which are positioned seven detectors , each designed for certain kinds of research . The LHC primarily collides proton beams , but it can also use beams of heavy ions : Lead-lead collisions and proton-lead collisions are typically done for one month per year . The aim of the LHC 's detectors is to allow physicists to test the predictions of different theories of particle physics , including measuring the properties of the Higgs boson and searching for the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetric theories , as well as other unsolved questions of physics .
The European Organization for Nuclear Research ( French : Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire ) , known as CERN ( /sɜːrn/ ; French pronunciation : ​ [ sɛʁn ] ; derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire ) , is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world . Established in 1954 , the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border and has 23 member states . Israel is the only non-European country granted full membership . CERN is an official United Nations Observer . The acronym CERN is also used to refer to the laboratory , which in 2016 had 2,500 scientific , technical , and administrative staff members , and hosted about 12,000 users . In the same year , CERN generated 49 petabytes of data . CERN 's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research - as a result , numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN through international collaborations . The main site at Meyrin hosts a large computing facility , which is primarily used to store and analyse data from experiments , as well as simulate events . Researchers need remote access to these facilities , so the lab has historically been a major wide area network hub . CERN is also the birthplace of the World Wide Web .
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ( LIGO ) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to develop gravitational-wave observations as an astronomical tool . Two large observatories were built in the United States with the aim of detecting gravitational waves by laser interferometry . These can detect a change in the 4 km mirror spacing of less than a ten-thousandth the charge diameter of a proton . The initial LIGO observatories were funded by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and were conceived , built and are operated by Caltech and MIT . They collected data from 2002 to 2010 but no gravitational waves were detected . The Advanced LIGO Project to enhance the original LIGO detectors began in 2008 and continues to be supported by the NSF , with important contributions from the United Kingdom 's Science and Technology Facilities Council , the Max Planck Society of Germany , and the Australian Research Council . The improved detectors began operation in 2015 . The detection of gravitational waves was reported in 2016 by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration ( LSC ) and the Virgo Collaboration with the international participation of scientists from several universities and research institutions . Scientists involved in the project and the analysis of the data for gravitational-wave astronomy are organized by the LSC , which includes more than 1000 scientists worldwide , as well as 440,000 active Einstein @ Home users as of December 2016 [ update ] . LIGO is the largest and most ambitious project ever funded by the NSF . In 2017 , the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss , Kip Thorne and Barry C. Barish for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves . Observations are made in runs .
The International Linear Collider ( ILC ) is a proposed linear particle accelerator . It is planned to have a collision energy of 500 GeV initially , with the possibility for a later upgrade to 1000 GeV ( 1 TeV ) . Although early proposed locations for the ILC were Japan , Europe ( CERN ) and the USA ( Fermilab ) , the Kitakami highland , in the Iwate prefecture of northern Japan , has been the focus of ILC design efforts since 2013 . The Japanese government is willing to contribute half of the costs , according to the coordinator of study for detectors at the ILC . The ILC would collide electrons with positrons . It will be between 30 km and 50 km ( 19-31 mi ) long , more than 10 times as long as the 50 GeV Stanford Linear Accelerator , the longest existing linear particle accelerator . The proposal is based on previous similar proposals from Europe , the U.S. , and Japan . Studies for an alternative project , the Compact Linear Collider ( CLIC ) are also underway , which would operate at higher energies ( up to 3 TeV ) in a machine of length similar to the ILC . These two projects , CLIC and the ILC , have been unified under the Linear Collider Collaboration .
Carlos José Bustamante ( born 1951 in Lima , Peru ) is a Peruvian-American scientist . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
Patrick G. Carrick is a member of the Senior Executive Service and an academic .
Katharine Venable Cashman FRS MAE is an American volcanologist , professor of volcanology at the University of Bristol and former Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science at the University of Oregon .
Thomas Condon ( 1822-1907 ) was an Irish Congregational minister , geologist , and paleontologist who gained recognition for his work in the U.S. state of Oregon .
Russell James Donnelly ( born 16 April 1930 in Hamilton , Ontario , died 13 June 2015 in Eugene , Oregon ) was a Canadian-American physicist known for his work on classical and quantum fluid dynamics .
Jonathon Stevens Jon Driver , FMedSci , FBA ( 4 July 1962 - 28 November 2011 ) was a psychologist and neuroscientist .
Sarah Ann Douglas ( born January 25 , 1944 in Asheville , North Carolina ) is a distinguished computer scientist , known for her work in human-computer interaction ( HCI ) , a field of computer science that she has helped pioneer , and , in particular , pointing devices and haptic interactions , WWW interfaces and bioinformatics , and visualization and visual interfaces . She is a Professor Emerita of Computer and Information Science and a member of the Computational Science Institute at the University of Oregon .
Ira Herskowitz ( July 14 , 1946 - April 28 , 2003 ) was an American geneticist . He was noted for his work on cellular differentiation . He was born in Brooklyn , New York . He graduated from the California Institute of Technology , and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in 1971 . He taught at the University of Oregon . He moved to University of California , San Francisco in 1981 , where he headed the Herskowitz lab . He is credited with popularizing the phrase the awesome power of yeast genetics as well as being the first to use a bar sign in a pathway diagram to denote a negative influence . He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2002 , the National Academy of Sciences in 1986 . He died in San Francisco , California on April 28 , 2003 of pancreatic cancer . James D. Watson said after his passing :
Stephen D. H. Hsu ( born 1966 ) is an American physicist and university administrator .
Norton Safe Web ( sometimes abbreviated NSW ) is a service developed by Symantec Corporation that is designed to help users identify malicious websites . Safe Web delivers information about websites based on automated analysis and user feedback . The software debuted as a public beta in 2008 , and is now included in current versions of Norton Internet Security and Norton 360 . A limited , standalone version of Safe Web , known as Safe Web Lite , is available as a freeware . Safe Web operates as a web browser plugin , and requires Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 3 or later . The 2012 release of Safe Web Lite added Google Chrome support .
Ray Hyman ( born June 23 , 1928 ) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon in Eugene , Oregon , and a noted critic of parapsychology . Hyman , along with James Randi , Martin Gardner and Paul Kurtz , is one of the founders of the modern skeptical movement . He is the founder and leader of the Skeptic 's Toolbox . Hyman serves on the Executive Council for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry .
The skeptical movement ( British spelling : sceptical movement ) is a modern social movement based on the idea of scientific skepticism ( also called rational skepticism ) . Scientific skepticism involves the application of skeptical philosophy , critical-thinking skills , and knowledge of science and its methods to empirical claims , while remaining agnostic or neutral to non-empirical claims [ definition needed ] ( except those that directly impact the practice of science ) . The movement has the goal of investigating claims made on fringe topics and determining whether they are supported by empirical research and are reproducible , as part of a methodological norm pursuing the extension of certified knowledge . The process followed is sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry . Roots of the movement date at least from the 19th century , when people started publicly raising questions regarding the unquestioned acceptance of claims about spiritism , of various widely-held superstitions , and of pseudoscience . Publications such as those of the Dutch Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij ( 1881 ) also targeted medical quackery . Using as a template the Belgian organization founded in 1949 , Comité Para , Americans Paul Kurtz and Marcello Truzzi founded the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ) , in Amherst , New York in 1976 . Now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI ) , this organization has inspired others to form similar groups worldwide .
Ramesh Jasti is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oregon . He was the first person to synthesize the elusive cycloparaphenylene in 2008 during post doctoral work in the laboratory of Professor Carolyn Bertozzi . He started his laboratory at Boston University where he was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award . In 2014 , he moved his laboratory to the University of Oregon where he expanded his focus to apply the molecules he discovered in the areas of organic materials , mechanically interlocked molecules , and biology .
A cycloparaphenylene , abbreviated [ n ] CPP where n is the number of benzene rings , is a molecule that consists of several benzene rings connected by covalent bonds in the para positions to form a hoop- or necklace-like structure . Its chemical formula is [ C6H4 ] n or C6nH4n .
Eugene Michael Luks ( born circa 1940 ) is an American mathematician and computer scientist , a professor emeritus of computer and information science at the University of Oregon . He is known for his research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory .
The graph isomorphism problem is the computational problem of determining whether two finite graphs are isomorphic . The problem is not known to be solvable in polynomial time nor to be NP-complete , and therefore may be in the computational complexity class NP-intermediate . It is known that the graph isomorphism problem is in the low hierarchy of class NP , which implies that it is not NP-complete unless the polynomial time hierarchy collapses to its second level . At the same time , isomorphism for many special classes of graphs can be solved in polynomial time , and in practice graph isomorphism can often be solved efficiently . This problem is a special case of the subgraph isomorphism problem , which asks whether a given graph G contains a subgraph that is isomorphic to another given graph H ; this problem is known to be NP-complete . It is also known to be a special case of the non-abelian hidden subgroup problem over the symmetric group . In the area of image recognition it is known as the exact graph matching .
In mathematics and abstract algebra , group theory studies the algebraic structures known as groups . The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra : other well-known algebraic structures , such as rings , fields , and vector spaces , can all be seen as groups endowed with additional operations and axioms . Groups recur throughout mathematics , and the methods of group theory have influenced many parts of algebra . Linear algebraic groups and Lie groups are two branches of group theory that have experienced advances and have become subject areas in their own right . Various physical systems , such as crystals and the hydrogen atom , may be modelled by symmetry groups . Thus group theory and the closely related representation theory have many important applications in physics , chemistry , and materials science . Group theory is also central to public key cryptography . One of the most important mathematical achievements of the 20th century was the collaborative effort , taking up more than 10,000 journal pages and mostly published between 1960 and 1980 , that culminated in a complete classification of finite simple groups .
Stephanie A. Majewski ( born 1981 ) is an American physicist at the University of Oregon ( UO ) researching high energy particle physics at the CERN ATLAS experiment . She worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratory prior to joining the faculty at UO in 2012 . She was selected for the Early Career Research Program award of the U.S. Department of Energy ( DOE ) , one of 35 scientists in all DOE-supported fields to receive this national honor in 2014 .
Brian W. Matthews is a biochemist and biophysicist educated at the University of Adelaide , contributor to x-ray crystallographic methodology at the University of Cambridge , and since 1970 at the University of Oregon as Professor of Physics and HHMI investigator in the Institute of Molecular Biology . He created hundreds of mutants of T4 lysozyme ( making it the commonest structure in the PDB ) , determined their structure by x-ray crystallography and measured their melting temperatures . Starting from questions about the basis of temperature-sensitive mutations , his work has explicated much about the general energetic and structural effects of mutations in proteins . He also solved early structures of the thermophilic bacterial enzyme thermolysin , the helix-turn-helix DNA-binding transcription factor lambda Cro repressor , and the light-antenna bacteriochlorophyll protein . Beyond his contributions to biochemistry , Matthews is also known in the machine learning community for the Matthews correlation coefficient , which he introduced in a paper in 1975 . The coefficient is used as a measure of the quality of binary ( two-class ) classifications . Matthews has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1986 . He is the editor of the scientific journal Protein Science .
Helen J. Neville ( May 20 , 1946 - October 12 , 2018 ) was an internationally renowned psychologist and neuroscientist . Neville was the Robert and Beverly Lewis Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience , Director of the Brain Development Lab , and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oregon . Neville is known for her research in the field of human brain development , specializing in cerebral specialization , neuroplasticity of the brain in childhood and adulthood , the roles of biological constraints and experience , and neurolinguistics . In order to investigate these topics , Neville used a variety of methods , including behavioral measures , event-related potentials ( ERPs ) , and structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging ( fMRI ) . Her research has helped to distinguish between the brain systems and functions that are largely fixed from those which are modifiable by experience , and with all her work she aimed to make a positive , tangible difference in society . She was involved in a number of outreach programs and charities in addition to scientific research . Neville received a B.A . from the University of British Columbia , an M.A . from Simon Fraser University , and a Ph.D. from Cornell University , and she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at the University of California , San Diego . She has been employed as Director of the Laboratory for Neuropsychology at the Salk Institute and as a professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD before joining the faculty at the University of Oregon in 1995 , where she remained . Neville died on October 12 , 2018 at the age of 72 .
Ivan Morton Niven ( October 25 , 1915 - May 9 , 1999 ) was a Canadian-American mathematician , specializing in number theory and known for his work on Waring 's problem . He worked for many years as a professor at the University of Oregon , and was president of the Mathematical Association of America . He was the author of several books on mathematics .
The Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level . Members include university , college , and high school teachers ; graduate and undergraduate students ; pure and applied mathematicians ; computer scientists ; statisticians ; and many others in academia , government , business , and industry . The MAA was founded in 1915 and is headquartered at 1529 18th Street , Northwest in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington , D.C . The organization publishes mathematics journals and books , including the American Mathematical Monthly ( established in 1894 by Benjamin Finkel ) , the most widely read mathematics journal in the world according to records on JSTOR .
Aaron Novick ( June 24 , 1919 - December 21 , 2000 ) is considered one of the founders of molecular biology . He started the University of Oregon 's Institute of Molecular Biology , believed to be the first of its kind in the world , in 1959 . A graduate of the University of Chicago , he completed his doctorate in physical organic chemistry there in 1943 , and then joined the Manhattan Project 's Metallurgical Laboratory . He later worked at its Los Alamos Laboratory , and witnessed the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945 .
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons . It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada . From 1942 to 1946 , the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the actual bombs . The Army component of the project was designated the Manhattan District ; Manhattan gradually superseded the official codename , Development of Substitute Materials , for the entire project . Along the way , the project absorbed its earlier British counterpart , Tube Alloys . The Manhattan Project began modestly in 1939 , but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US $ 2 billion ( about $ 23 billion in 2018 dollars ) . Over 90% of the cost was for building factories and to produce fissile material , with less than 10% for development and production of the weapons . Research and production took place at more than 30 sites across the United States , the United Kingdom , and Canada . Two types of atomic bombs were developed concurrently during the war : a relatively simple gun-type fission weapon and a more complex implosion-type nuclear weapon . The Thin Man gun-type design proved impractical to use with plutonium , and therefore a simpler gun-type called Little Boy was developed that used uranium-235 , an isotope that makes up only 0.7 percent of natural uranium . Chemically identical to the most common isotope , uranium-238 , and with almost the same mass , it proved difficult to separate the two .
Geraldine Lee Richmond ( born January 17 , 1953 in Salina , Kansas ) is an American chemist and physical chemist . Richmond is the Presidential Chair in Science and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oregon ( UO ) . She conducts fundamental research to understand the chemistry and physics of complex surfaces and interfaces . These understandings are most relevant to energy production , atmospheric chemistry and remediation of the environment . Throughout her career she has worked to increase the number and success of women scientists in the U.S. and in many developing countries in Africa , Asia and South America . Richmond has served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and she received the 2013 National Medal of Science .
The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences , biology , chemistry , engineering , mathematics and physics . The twelve member presidential Committee on the National Medal of Science is responsible for selecting award recipients and is administered by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) .