Welcome to Our New Faculty Members
Get to know our newest faculty members and their research areas.
Biological Sciences
Gregory Thom
Assistant Professor, Genetic Resources/Ornithology Curator at the LSU Museum of Natural
Science
Research Area: Use of scientific collections that bridge evolution, ecology, and organismal
biology to explore the processes driving bird diversification in the Tropics
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Fan Zhang
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Systems biology of host-microbiome interactions
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Caroline Honan
Teaching Associate
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Philip Tabilin
Teaching Associate
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Homyra Tasnim
Teaching Associate
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Chemistry
Clifton Wagner
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Investigation of novel inorganic synthetic methodologies
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Sviatoslav Baranets
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Heteroanionic semiconducting materials and cluster compounds for energy
applications
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Geology & Geophysics
Roy Haggerty
Executive Vice President & Provost, Geology Professor
Research Area: Hydrology and environmental geology
Matthew Loocke
Assistant Professor of Research and Director of the Chevron Geomaterials Characterization
Laboratory
Research Area: Electron/X-ray Microbeam Analysis; Igneous Petrology; Mineral chemistry and mineral petrogenesis
Mathematics
Daniel Massatt
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Numerical Analysis, Spectral Theory, Multiscale Modeling, Quantum Theory,
Topological Insulators, Incommensurate Materials, Electronic Structure
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Gene Kopp
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Number Theory
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Fan Yang
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Mathematical Physics, Harmonic Analysis, Quantum walk, Dynamical Systems
and Ergodic Theory
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Alisina Azhang
Instructor
Research Area: G-Connections on Algebraic Curves
Timothy Homan
Instructor
Research Interest: Low Dimensional Topology
Physics & Astronomy
Xiaojian Bai
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
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Prosper Ngabonziza
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Experimental Condensed Matter and Material Physics
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Francois Mauger
Research Assistant Professor
Research Area: Theoretical Physics related to theoretical and applied ultrafast science,
chemical physics, and their interaction with nonlinear dynamics
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James Sauls
Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics
Research Area: Quantum Theory of Matter, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Information,
Sensing & Computing
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