General Information

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

Teaching

This semester I'm teaching Physics 721: Quantum Mechanics (for graduate students).

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)
• Neutrino scattering from nuclei (and the solar neutrino problem)
• Violation of parity and time-reversal invariance in nuclei
• Nucleosynthesis in stars and supernovae

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