Ronald S. Banzon
Associate Professor
Dr. Banzon's research interests include: (1) studies on population dynamics via the Penna Model, a bit-string model to account for the influence of aging/inheritance of genes and possible mutations, (2) molecular dynamics through formation of composite particles, (3) percolation, (4) quantum well states modeling, and (5) the investigation of circular polymers in solution for the possible conformations that they may exhibit as those found in supercoiled plasmid DNA.
He has been involved in the study of small angle x-ray scattering of plasmid DNA.
Dr. Banzon is currently the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Science.
Cristine Villagonzalo
Associate Professor
Dr. Villagonzalo's research interests in theoretical solid state physics include (1) thermoelectric properties, (2) transport characteristics and (3) the magnetic behavior in low dimensional materials. For example, she studies the heat capacity behavior of two dimensional electron systems in the quantum Hall regime.
She collaborates with Dr. Banzon in the field of percolation, modeling of quantum well states and optimization of quantum search algorithms.
She has been involved in the study of thermoelectric properties in disordered systems .
