Prof. Lee Harrell

Dr. Lee Harrell is a professor in the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering at the United States Military Academy. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1991 with a major in physics and a minor in mathematics. He attended graduate school in physics at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he earned a Master of Science in physics in 1992 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1998. 

His dissertation work was the design and construction of scanning tunneling microscopes for the study of buried semiconductor interfaces and surface-adsorbed gold nanocrystals. Dr. Harrell did postdoctoral work as a Davies Fellow of the National Research Council from June 1998-July 1999. During this fellowship, he taught PH201/PH202 Introductory Physics at USMA and conducted research in the area of magnetic resonance force microscopy.

 In 1999, Dr. Harrell was appointed an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, promoted to the academic rank of associate professor in 2004, and professor in 2020. He currently serves on the Dean’s Staff as the Director of the Dean’s Action Group.