
Jogindra Wadehra
Professor
313 577 2740
313 577 3932 (fax)
Room 264, Physics Building
Website(s)
Jogindra Wadehra
Associate Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2001-2018
Professor of Physics, Wayne State University, 1989-Present
Associate Professor of Physics, Wayne State University, 1985-1989
Assistant Professor of Physics, Wayne State University, 1980-1985
Assistant Professor of Physics, Texas A. & M. University, 1979-1980
Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh, 1978-1979
Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1977-1978
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
- Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Astrophysics
Education
- B.S. (Honors), Physics, University of Delhi, India
- M.S., Physics, University of Nebraska
- Ph.D., Physics, New York University
Awards and grants
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AWARDS:
New York University, NSF Science Development Grant Fellowship
Wayne State University, Career Development Chair
Wayne State University, President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Wayne State University, Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award
Wayne State University, College of Science Teaching Award
Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award
Wayne State University, Outstanding Graduate Director Service Award
Wayne State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Richard J. Barber Faculty Recognition Award
Fellow, American Physical Society
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GRANTS:
"Cottrell Research Grant", funded for one year by the Research Corporation
"Positron (and Electron) Scattering by Atoms and Molecules", funded for three years by the National Science Foundation
"Dissociative Attachment to Rovibrationally Excited Molecules", funded for three years by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
"Theoretical Investigations of Negative Ions in a Hydrogen Source", funded for three years by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
"Comparative Theoretical Studies of Interactions of Positrons and Electrons with Atoms", funded for three years by the National Science Foundation
"Theoretical Investigations of Time-Dependent Behavior of Electron Swarms in Gases", funded for three years by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
"Algorithms for Time-Dependent Plasma Boundary Kinetics", funded for one year by the Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education
Selected publications
See pdf copies of all publications at http://www.physics.wayne.edu/~wadehra/research.htm
Currently teaching
- Winter 2020: PHY 2170 (University Physics for Scientists I) and PHY 2175 (University Physics for Engineers I)
- Fall 2019: PHY 3700 (Mathematics for Biomedical Physics)
Courses taught
PHY 1001, PHY 1020, PHY 2130, PHY 2140, PHY 2170, PHY 2175, PHY 2180, PHY 2185, AST 2010, AST 5010, PHY 3300, PHY 3700, PHY 5010, PHY 5030, PHY 5100, PHY 5600 (now, PHY 6600), PHY 7100 (now, PHY 5100), PHY 7110, PHY 7200, PHY 7400, PHY 7410, PHY 7600, PHY 7610