General Information

• Title: Professor and Associate Chair
• Address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Phillips Hall, CB3255, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255
• email: engelj[at]physics[dot]unc[dot]edu
• Phone: 919-962-2619
• Fax: 919-962-0480

Teaching

This semester I'm teaching Physics 721: Graduate Quantum Mechanics. Among the coolest subjects in the world.

Research Interests

My research is in nuclear theory and its application to problems of fundamental importance in particle physics and astrophysics. Topics in this interdisciplinary line of research include

• Double beta decay (and the mass of the neutrino)
• CP violation in nuclei
• Nucleosynthesis in stars and supernovae
• Neutrino scattering and the weak interaction in nuclei

I'm also interested in the foundations of nuclear structure, particularly density-functional theory in heavy nuclei.

Further Information

• The nuclear theory research group
• My publication list

Other things you might like to see

• The UNC Physics Department home page
• The schedule for the Triangle Nuclear Theory colloquium series