Physics

A.W. Peet

Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Being transgender
• Elementary particle theory
• New Zealand
• Quantum gravity
• String theory

Office: 416-978-3911
Mobile: 416-561-0579
Website
Email: aw.peet@utoronto.ca
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Daniel James

Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Physics
• Centres
  • Institute for Optical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Optics
• Quantum physics

Office: 416-946-3736
Mobile: 416-732-5615
Website
Email: dfvj@physics.utoronto.ca
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Henry van Driel

Professor Emeritus

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Laser physics
• Photonics

Office: N/A
Languages: Dutch, German, French
Email: henry.vandriel@utoronto.ca
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Hoi-Kwong Lo

Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Quantum communication
• Quantum computing: information and cryptography

Office: 416-946-5525
Home: 416-597-9815
Languages: Cantonese
Website
Email: hklo@comm.utoronto.ca
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Kenneth Norwich

Professor Emeritus, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Physics
  • Physiology
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Areas of Expertise

• Computers in medicine
• Hearing
• Mathematics in medicine and biology
• Physics in medicine
• The senses

Office: 416-978-6698
Home: 416-785-3611
Email: k.norwich@utoronto.ca
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Kent Moore

Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto Mississauga

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Chemical and Physical Sciences
  • Physics
• Centres
  • Centre for Global Change Science

Areas of Expertise

• Arctic climate
• Arctic melting
• Climate change
• Extreme weather
• Ice Cores
• North Pole atmospheric disturbances
• Sea Ice
• Warming at high northern latitudes & impact on Arctic and Canada

Office: 416-978-4686
Mobile: 647-808-5132
Website
Email: gwk.moore@utoronto.ca
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Kimberly Strong

Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Physics
• Centres
  • Centre for Global Change Science
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Arctic atmospheric science
• Atmospheric measurements
• Atmospheric physics
• Balloons
• Climate change
• How are balloons controlled?
• Identifying objects using debris
• Ozone depletion
• Remote sounding of the atmosphere (ground satellites)
• Tropospheric pollution
• Weather balloons

Office: 416-946-3217
Website
Email: strong@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
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Pekka Sinervo

Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Advanced research
• High-energy physics
• Nuclear physics
• Nuclear proliferation
• Nuclear waste and radiation safety
• Particle physics; high-energy physics; nuclear physics
• Research funding

Office: 416-978-5270
Languages: Finnish
Website
Email: pekka.sinervo@utoronto.ca
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Robert Logan

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian politics
• Industrial design
• Information theory
• Knowledge management and change management in corporations
• Marshall McLuhan
• New media and art

Office: 416-978-8632
Home: 416-361-5928
Languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Latvian
Website
Email: logan@physics.utoronto.ca
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Stephen Morris

Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Emergence of regular patterns in nature
• Icicles and ice formations
• Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
• Physics of complex self-organizing systems
• Physics of everyday life

Office: 416-978-6810
Website
Email: smorris@physics.utoronto.ca
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William Trischuk

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • School of Graduate Studies
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Experimental particle physics
• Novel particle accelerators
• Particle detection using chemically vapour deposited diamond
• Radiation hard particle detector systems

Office: 416-978-8095
Mobile: 416-919-7694
Languages: French
Website
Email: william@physics.utoronto.ca
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Young-June Kim

Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Neutron Scattering
• Quantum materials
• Quantum Spin Liquids
• Superconductivity
• Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy

Office: 416-978-7868
Languages: Korean
Website
Email: youngjune.kim@utoronto.ca
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