2 UB Professors Named Fellows of American Physical Society

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Michael G. Fuda and Athos Petrou, professors of physics at the University at Buffalo, have been named fellows of the American Physical Society.

Only one-half of 1 percent of the society's membership is eligible for election to APS fellowship each year. Election to fellowship constitutes recognition by one's peers of an individual's outstanding contributions to physics.

Fuda was cited by the society for his development of techniques for the analysis of the nonrelativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics of few-particle systems and their application to strongly interacting particle systems.

His work relates to aspects of Einstein's theory of relativity. In particular, it involves looking at the problem of combining special relativity with quantum mechanics.

A faculty member since 1967, Fuda previously was a research physicist at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady. He is the author of numerous publications in scientific journals. His work is funded by the National Science Foundation.

A resident of Buffalo, he earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Petrou was cited by the society for his optical studies of heterostructures and for elucidating their band structure and optical properties.

He conducts research in the area of experimental condensed matter physics: specifically, the use of photoluminescence, reflectance, absorption and Raman spectroscopy techniques to study semiconductor systems.

His current work focuses on gallium arsenide- and zinc selenide-based superlattices.

A faculty member since 1985, Petrou is the recipient of two Alan Berman Research Publication Awards from the Naval Research Laboratory.

He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Athens in Greece and received his doctorate from Purdue University.

Petrou lives in Williamsville.