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 rare 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

Lou Jisonna, Jr.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics

Office: 132 VanderWerf Hall
Phone: (616) 395-7516
email: jisonna@hope.edu
Research Interest: Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics

Jacquelin Koch

Office: SC 1047 VanderWerf Hall
Phone: (616) 395-7218
email: koch@hope.edu

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

Jil Ponstein

Office: Math-Physics-Engineering- Computer Science office 204A VanderWerf Hall
Phone: (616) 395-7530
email: ponstein@hope.edu

Cathy Stoel

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