Alan Dorsey
Associate Dean for Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Areas of Responsibility
Responsible for the Following Departments
Responsible for the Following Centers, Programs, and Related Units
Brief Biography
Alan Dorsey is a Professor of Physics and served as Chair of the UF Department of Physics from 2002-2009. Dorsey received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and 1987. After serving as the IBM Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell from 1987-1989, Dorsey joined the faculty of the University of Virginia, where he earned tenure and became an Associate Professor in 1995. While at UVa he received an award for outstanding teaching as well as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. He left UVa to join the faculty of the University of Florida in 1997.
A theoretical physicist, Dorsey's research focuses on the physics of novel phases of matter produced under extreme conditions, such as low temperatures or high magnetic fields. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation, and he has also served as the principal investigator for undergraduate and graduate training grants from the NSF and the US Department of Education. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and currently serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics. Dorsey and Dr. Thomas Dana are the co-Founders and co-Directors of UFTeach, a program designed to inspire and train the next generation of middle and high school math and science teachers.
