Brennan John Hughey

Title
Department Chair and Professor of Physics
Email
Department
Physics and Astronomy Department
College
College of Arts & Sciences

Office Hours

M 1-4 T 1:25-2:40 W 10:30-12 and 1-4 Th 10:35-11:50 and 1:25-2:40
Brennan John Hughey

Dr. Brennan Hughey is a professor of physics and chair of the Prescott campus Department of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Hughey holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His doctoral thesis was done with the IceCube neutrino detector experiment, and his graduate work included a trip to the South Pole, where the detector is located. After earning his Ph.D. he joined the LIGO collaboration in the search for gravitational waves. He has held several positions in LIGO, including chairing the collaboration’s detector characterization group. In collaboration with faculty at Cal State Fullerton, he contributed on of the figures to the famous Nobel-prize-winning paper detailing the first direct detection of gravitational waves.


  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Physics: Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • B.S. - Bachelor of Science in Physics: Mathematics, Hope College

  • PS 215: Physics I
  • PS 161: Physics I & II for Engineers



Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (2010-2012)

Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007-2010)