Faculty Profiles
Meet Your Mentors.
Jamie Gagnon, Biology
A Vermont native, Gagnon arrived at the University of Utah in January 2018 from Harvard. Previous to that he earned a PhD from Brown University and a BS from Worcester Polytechnic west of Boston.
In Utah Gagnon went from post-doc to principal investigator and Assistant Professor of Biology. In his lab at the Center for Cell and Genome Science, Gagnon curates 10,000 fish in 1,000 controlled tanks carefully labeled for experiments.
Ming Hammond, Chemistry
Pearl earned her PhD in Physics from the University of Minnesota and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weinberg Theory Group at the University of Texas at Austin before joining the University of Utah in 2011.
Her research interests are in particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including possible explanations for the dark matter in the universe.
Pearl currently serves as the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs as the College moves forward on many new academic fronts.
Ming Hammond, Chemistry
A Vermont native, Gagnon arrived at the University of Utah in January 2018 from Harvard. Previous to that he earned a PhD from Brown University and a BS from Worcester Polytechnic west of Boston.
In Utah Gagnon went from post-doc to principal investigator and Assistant Professor of Biology. In his lab at the Center for Cell and Genome Science, Gagnon curates 10,000 fish in 1,000 controlled tanks carefully labeled for experiments.
Pearl Sandick, Physics
Pearl earned her PhD in Physics from the University of Minnesota and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weinberg Theory Group at the University of Texas at Austin before joining the University of Utah in 2011.
Her research interests are in particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including possible explanations for the dark matter in the universe.
Pearl currently serves as the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs as the College moves forward on many new academic fronts.