After completing a thesis in experimental plasma physics in the area of fusion energy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at USD in 1987, becoming a full professor in 1994. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Physics. His teaching ranges from Physics and Society to Quantum Physics, and he created the first advanced upper division laboratory course, Experimental Modern Physics, in the physics curriculum. His research focuses on experimental basic plasma physics and the use of tunable lasers as a diagnostic for ion dynamics.

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Dr. Anderson is the newest Assistant Professor of Physics at USD.  She begins her appointment in the fall of 2009. Her undergraduate work was done at Georgetown University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude in Physics in 2003, and she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is held in high regard by students and faculty at UCSD for her teaching of UCSD’s Physics 1A introductory physics course, which she taught while doing post-doctoral studies at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. Her doctoral research at UCSD focused experimentally on the biophysics of DNA, using both microscopy and laser techniques.  Her post-doctoral studies were also devoted to single molecule biophysics, focusing on the molecule Rev, a regulatory protein of importance in HIV-1 studies.

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David Devine, Ph.D., has been an assistant professor in the Physics Department since 2005. He has taught a variety of introductory physics courses at USD as well as two preceptorial courses in introductory astronomy. His primary area of research involves observations of outflows driven by young stars. He is currently focusing on the potential relationship between the cessation of the protostellar outflow phase and planet formation.  Devine has been awarded time on a variety of telescopes at the Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo National Observatories as well as the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Eric J. Page, Ph.D., joined the USD faculty in the fall of 2006. Page teaches across the entire physics curriculum with focuses in introductory physics for bioscience and pre-health students as well as biological and optical physics.  His research focus is split in two areas, biophotonics, where Page investigates the interaction of light with biological materials and physics education research where he investigates epistemology and educational technologies in physics. His thesis work focused on the intersection of gravitational and optical physics as well as physics education research.

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Daniel Sheehan has been a member of the faculty at USD since 1989 and is Professor of Physics.  His research interests include the second law of thermodynamics, retrocausation, nanotechnology, plantary formation, and plasma physics.

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