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1. Lecturer in Physics, Oxford College, 2010-Present

2. Asst. Professor of Physics, Emory University, (Sep. 2004-Aug. 2009).

 I taught numerous Physics Introductory and upper level Physics courses as well as ran a research program focussed on Fluid Dynamics.

3. Team Scientist at NASA, (2000-2004)

4. Post Doctoral Scientist (1993-2000)

Courses Taught:

At Oxford College

PHYS141 - Introductory Physics with Lab, part I.

PHYS142 - Introductory Physics with Lab, part II.

ASTR116 - Introduction to Astronomy with Lab

At the Physics Department at Emory University

PHYS141/151: Introductory Physics with Laboratory, part I.

PHYS142/152: Introductory Physics with Laboratory, part II

PHYS432: Principles of Optics with Laboratory

PHYS544: Advanced Laboratory.

PHYS597R: Directed Research.

PHYS797R: Advanced Research.

Selected Honors

• Top 25% ranked Teacher, Emory Department of Physics, 2006-2009

• Science Achievement Award, NASA, 2004.

• Certificate of Appreciation, Exxon Corporate Research, 1997.

• Invited speaker: Colloids in External Fields Conference, Germany, 2004

.• Invited speaker: Nano-Particles Conference., Orlando, Fl., 2004

.• Invited speaker: American Physical Society annual meeting. Minneapolis, 1999, and Los Angeles, 2000

.• Certificate of Appreciation, Exxon Corporate Research, 1997.

Selected Publications

• P.N. Segre, B. Kocher, K. Edmond, J. E. Davidheiser and J. Brody, An Optical Method for Determining the Thermal Diffusivity in Transparent Liquids and Solids, to appear Am. J. Physics (2010).

• A.E. Bailey et al., Spinodal Decomposition in a Model Colloid-Polymer Mixture in Microgravity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205701 (2007)

• R. Grugel, L. Cotton, P. Segre, J. Ogle, G. Funkhouser, F. Parris, D. Gillies, F.Hua, and A. Anilkumar, The In-Space Soldering Investigation (ISSI): Melting andSolidi?cation Experiments Aboard the International Space Station, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, Jan. 9-12, (2006)

.• S. Manley et al., Time-Dependent Strength of Colloidal Gels, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 048302 (2005).

• S. Manley, L. Cipelletti, V. Trappe, A. E. Bailey, R. J. Christianson, U. Gasser,V. Prasad, P. N. Segre, M. P. Doherty, S. Sankaran, A. L. Jankovsky, B. Shiley,J. Bowen, J. Eggers, C. Kurta, T. Lorik, and D. A. Weitz, Limits to Gelation in Colloidal Aggregation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 108302 (2004).

.• P.N. Segre and J.P. McClymer, Fluctuations, Stratifcation and Stability in aLiquid Fluidized Bed at Low Reynolds Number, J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 16, S4219 (2004).

• V. Prasad et al., Universal features of the fluid to solid transition for attractive colloidal particles, Faraday Discuss., 123, 1 (2003)

.• P.N. Segre, Origin of Stablity in Sedimentation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 254503 (2002)

.• S.Y. Tee, P.J. Mucha, L. Cipelletti, S. Manley, M.P. Brenner, P.N. Segre and D.A. Weitz, Nonuniversal Velocity Fluctuations of Sedimenting Particles, Phys.Rev. Lett. 89, 54501 (2002).

.• P.N. Segre, F. Liu, P. Umbanhower and D.A. Weitz, Effective Gravitational Temperature in Sedimentation, Nature 409, 594 (2001).

.• P.N. Segre, V. Prasad, A.B. Schoffeld and D.A. Weitz, Glasslike kinetic arrest atthe colloidal-gelation transition, Phys. Rev. Lett., 86 6042 (2001).

.• V. Trappe, V. Prasad, L. Cipelletti, P.N. Segre and D.A. Weitz, Jamming phasediagram for attractive particles, Nature 411 772 (2001).

.• H.E. King and P.N. Segre, Viscosity and Diffusion in Molecular and Complex Liquids, Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, (1998).

.• P.N. Segre, E. Herbolzheimer and P.M. Chaikin, Long Range Correlations inSedimentation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 2574 (1997).

.• P.N. Segre and P.N. Pusey, Scaling of the Dynamic Scattering Function in Concentrated Colloidal Suspensions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 771 (1996)

.• P.N. Segre, S.P. Meeker, P.N. Pusey and W.C.K Poon, Viscosity and Structural Relaxation in Hard Sphere Colloidal Suspensions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 958 (1995); 77, 561 (1996).

• P.N. Segre, W. van Megen, P.N. Pusey, K. Schatzel and W. Peters, Two-Colour Dynamic Light Scattering, Journal of Modern Optics, 42 1929 (1995).

• P.N. Segre, O.P. Behrend and P.N. Pusey, Short-time Brownian Dynamics in Colloidal Suspensions; Experiment and Simulation, Phys. Rev. E, 52 5070 (1995).