Dr. Nader (Nathan) Inan earned his bachelors degree in Physics at CSU Long Beach, his master’s degree in Physics at CSU Fresno, and his PhD in Physics at UC Merced under the guidance of Professor Raymond Chiao. His current research continues to focus on many of the same topics that he studied in his dissertation which was titled, “Formulations of General Relativity and their Applications to Quantum Mechanical Systems (with an emphasis on gravitational waves interacting with superconductors).”

Other related topics that he also works on are the following:

  • Gravito-electromagnetism and its application to laboratory scale gravitational research.
  • Gravitational wave communication systems (including the generation, reflection, and
    impedance of gravitational waves, and predicting the cavity modes of gravitational radiation.
  • Novel ways of coupling electromagnetic and gravitational fields, as well as transduction
    between electromagnetic and gravitational radiation.
  • London theory, Ginzburg-Landau theory, Klein-Gordon, all in curved space-time.
  • Aharonov-Bohm effects (both electromagnetic and gravitational).
  • Casimir effects (both static and dynamic; involving photons, gravitons, and phonon modes in
    material lattices).
  • Unifying Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and solving the Cosmological Constant problem using
    the quantum uncertainty of the space-time metric.
  • Inertia and propulsion (Coupling local test bodies to the gravitational field of an FLRW universe in the pursuit of propellantless propulsion; models for describing inertia as a gravitationally induced phenomenon)

Nathan is currently a tenured physics instructor at Clovis Community College, and also teaches part-time at Cal State Fresno as well as Fresno Pacific University. In addition to teaching, he remains very active with research and gives talks at university colloquia, as well as the American Physics Society (APS) meetings and the Pacific Coast Gravity Meetings (PCGM). Nathan has published several peer-reviewed papers, including papers that received honorable mention in the prestigious Gravity Research Foundation essay competition.

Most importantly to Nathan, he is very happily married to his lovely wife Erika, and together they have four children. Nathan also enjoy many other activities including lifting weights, playing electric guitar, going to live music shows. When time permits, he also enjoys camping, 4wheeling in his off-road truck, indoor rock wall climbing.