Quinton L. Williams, PhD
Faculty
Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Affiliation
Howard University Faculty
Biography
Dr. Quinton L. Williams is professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Howard University. His research group is currently investigating nanomaterials and lithium iron phosphate batteries. In industry, Dr. Williams worked at Lucent Technologies – Bell Labs in fiber optics and photonics before co-founding an integrated optics company. From 2003 - 2014, he served as professor and chair of the Department of Physics and interim provost at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Williams has served in his current position at Howard University since 2014.
Dr. Williams is a past-president of the National Society of Black Physicists and formerly an elected member of the governing board of the American Institute of Physics. Dr. Williams has published more than 40 scientific publications and given numerous invited presentations.
Dr. Williams received his Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Bachelor of Science in physics from Jackson State University.