Interim Associate Dean
Areas of Responsibility
- Research
- Re-organization of the CLAS Research enterprise to increase sponsored research
- CLAS Research Office supervision
- Animal Care Issues
- Coordination of special research initiatives
- Coordination of training of new faculty in proposal preparation
- Liaison to other college research offices and to the Office of Research to promote interdisciplinary cooperation
- Research misconduct
- Research Opportunity Seed Fund
- Grant Workshops
- Chair of CLAS Research Advisory Committee
- CLAS “SPARK” research funding opportunity
Brief Biography
Kevin Ingersent has been appointed as Interim Associate Dean for the 2023-24 academic year. He serves the college in the area of research while Associate Dean Harfe is serving as interim associate provost.
Ingersent received his B.A. in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. After postdoctoral work at Ohio State University, he joined the UF Department of Physics in 1992. He has served as the department’s Associate Chair (2009-13) and Chair (2013-21).
Ingersent has taught at all curriculum levels, from undergraduate general education courses to advanced graduate classes. His research focuses on modeling and predicting the behavior of quantum materials, especially novel physical properties found near phase transitions taking place at the absolute zero of temperature.
He was the founding director (1999-2008) of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site in Materials Physics, an NSF-funded summer program providing immersive research opportunities to undergraduates.
He has served on the CLAS Finance Committee as chair, the CLAS Faculty Council, the CLAS Curriculum Committee, and the University Senate.