Biography
Dr. Pete E.C. Markowitz, Ph.D, is currently the Assistant Dean of the FIU Honors College.
He carries out nuclear and particle physics experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Virginia, the European Center for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland and KEK/JPARC in Japan. His research interests focus on the source of quark structure of nuclei, and the electroproduction of quarks and anti-quarks (or matter and anti-matter). He has conducted a series of experiments measuring strange quark effects in nuclei mapping out the behavior of these elusive and unstable particles.
He joined FIU’s Physics Department in 1995 where he is a Full Professor. During his time at FIU he has taught Nuclear Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Intermediate Classical Mechanics, Classical Electrodynamics, Modern Physics (and the associated laboratory course), and the introductory physics sequences, as well as courses in the Honors College where he presently teaches the freshman seminar. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from The College of William and Mary in Virginia, his M.S. from Michigan State University in 1988 and his B.A. from Cornell University in 1985.