Physics

Six Lehigh University professors have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors. The 2025 cohort comprises 162 academic inventors representing 64 NAI Member Institutions across the United States. Collectively, they are named inventors on over 1200 U.S. patents. Included in the cohort is Volkmar Dierolf, professor of physics, and Xiaoji Xu, associate professor of chemistry.

Ivan Biaggio pursues groundbreaking research on quantum-entangled particles in organic crystals.

Physics Ph.D. student Jace Curran explores how spin-entangled excitons in rubrene can be used as new investigative tools in organic semiconductors.

Physicist Rosi Reed investigates elements that hold the universe together.

Chemistry and physics researchers join forces to unravel mystery behind cell signaling and lipid membrane movement.