Hope College | Physics

Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Paul DeYoung
Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Physics and
Department Chairperson

Office: 227 VanderWerf Hall
Phone: (616) 395-7517
email: deyoung@hope.edu
Research Interest: Nuclear structure of rate isotopes (e.g. ¹⁹C or ²⁵O). Application of nuclear techniques to interdisiplanary problems.

Peter Gonthier
Professor of Physics

Office: 228 VanderWerf Hall
Phone: (616) 395-7142
email: gonthier@hope.edu
Research Interest: Astrophysics - radio and gamma-ray emission from pulsars, relativistic Compton scattering in strong magnetic fields.

Jennifer Hampton
Assistant Professor of Physics

Office: 236 VanderWerf Hall
Phone: (616) 395-7256
email: hampton@hope.edu
Research Interest: Electrochemistry, nanoscale science, scanning probe microscopy.

Catherine Mader
Professor of Physics

Office: 232 VanderWerf Hall
Phone: (616) 395-7114
email: mader@hope.edu
Research Interest: Heavy ion reaction theory involving modeling of highly excited nuclei. Physics curriculum development.

Graham Peaslee
Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Chairperson, Department of Chemistry

Office: Science Center
Phone: (616) 395-7117
email: peaslee@hope.edu

Stephen Remillard
Assistant Professor of Physics

Office: VWF 225
Phone: (616) 395-7507
email: remillard@hope.edu
Research Interest: Microwave superconductivity; phontonic bandgap structures; microwave discharges in gases.

Part-Time Faculty

Peter Burkey

Office:
Phone:(616)395-7530
email: burkeyp@hope.edu

Jordan Siemon

Office:
Phone:(616)395-7530
email: siemon@hope.edu

Staff

Dave Daugherty

Office: Accelerator Lab VanderWerf Hall
Phone: (616) 395-7519
email: daugherty@hope.edu

Kevin Gardner

Office: 122A VanderWerf Hall
Phone: (616) 395-7518
email: gardner@hope.edu

Stephanie Doolittle

Office: Math-Physics-Engineering-Computer Science office, 204 Vanderwerf Hall
Phone: (616)395-7530
email: doolittle@hope.edu

Cathy Stoel

Office: Math-Physics-Engineering-Computer Science office, 204 Vanderwerf Hall
Phone: (616)395-7530
email: stoel@hope.edu

Faculty and Staff

Paul DeYoung Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Physics and Department Chairperson

Peter Gonthier Professor of Physics

Jennifer Hampton Assistant Professor of Physics

Catherine Mader Professor of Physics

Graham Peaslee Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Chairperson, Department of Chemistry

Stephen Remillard Assistant Professor of Physics