Christine Adamavich
Position title: Curricular And Admin Assistant
Email: cadamavich@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-4526
Administrative Staff
Susan Anderson
Position title: Financial Specialist
Email: susan.anderson@wisc.edu
Departmental Responsibilities: Travel reimbursements, Purchasing card approvals, Capital equipment management, Capital equipment inventory, Award closeouts
Evan Heintz
Position title: Undergraduate Advisor
Pronouns: he/him/his
Email: eheintz@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-7450
Websites: Astronomy, Plasma Astrophysics
Departmental Responsibilities: Undergraduate advising, Undergraduate events, Physics club, Physics VISP, Astronomy undergraduate advising, Course Proposals, Guide changes, Student services team
Sharon Kahn
Position title: Graduate Program Manager, PhD Program
Email: smkahn@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-9678
Departmental Responsibilities: PhD advising, Department social events, Course Proposals, Program Proposals, Guide changes, Prospective PhD students, Timetable, Student services team
Sharon is our Graduate Program Manager for the Physics Ph.D. program and is an excellent resource for all graduate students (prospective, current and alumni) who have questions about how the program works. She is a strong believer in fostering independence, good citizenship and good mental health in the graduate student community. Sharon joined the department in November 2021, but has been on campus in a variety of student service-related roles for 25+ years. Her background in geology (B.A. from Carleton College, M.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas) explains all of the rocks and maps in her office, but her interests range broadly to include baking, gardening, playing with her Weimaraner, Moxie, and spending time with her husband, Brad, and their son, EJ.
Sylvia Swift Kmiec
Position title: Senior Research Administrator
Email: sylvia.kmiec@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-4964
Departmental Responsibilities: Proposal budgets, Proposal submissions, Post-award financial management, Award closeouts
Alice C. M. Kwok
Position title: Graduate Advisor
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Email: amain2@wisc.edu
Departmental Responsibilities: MSPQC admissions, recruitment, orientation, enrollment, professional development, and degree warrants
Alice is the Graduate Advisor for the Master’s of Science program in Physics – Quantum Computing. She is available to assist prospective, current, and former students in MSPQC. She helps manage admissions, recruitment, orientation, enrollment, professional development, and degree warrants. She earned her Ph.D. in History at UW-Madison.
Aimee Lefkow
Position title: Research Program Manager/Department Administrator
Email: lefkow@hep.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-2267
Rachel S Mattingly
Position title: HR Generalist, ART
Pronouns: She/Her
Email: rachel.mattingly@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-7970
Donald L Miner
Position title: Travel Approver
Email: donminer@physics.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-2281
Katerina Moloni
Position title: Associate Director, MSPQC and WQI
Email: moloni@wisc.edu
Departmental Responsibilities: MSPQC administration, Wisconsin Quantum Institute, Staff Onboarding
Dr. Katerina Moloni received her Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Minnesota in 1995. After completing postdoctoral appointments at Purdue University and UW–Madison, she joined nPoint in 1999 as a senior scientist. She oversaw nPoint’s transition to new global markets for nanopositioning technology and was responsible for product development and sales. She joined UW–Madison in December 2022 as the Associate Director of MSPQC and WQI.