Faculty Portrait

Contact Information

Name: Mikkel Herholdt Jensen

Title: Associate Professor of Physics

Office Location: Sequoia Hall 430

Email: mikkel.jensen@csus.edu

Mailing Address: 6000 J St, Sacramento, CA 95819

Research

My research interests include: soft condensed matter, biological physics, biomimetic systems, biopolymers, and rheology, and physics education research.

Please visit my lab page for my CV and details about my research, see my Google Scholar profile for a full list of my publications, or follow our lab on Twitter.

Courses that I Teach

Physics 11A – General Physics: Mechanics

Physics 11A – General Physics: Mechanics lab

Physics 11B – General Physics: Heat, Light, and Modern Physics

Physics 11B – General Physics: Heat, Light, and Modern Physics lab

Physics 11C – General Physics: Electricity and Magnetism

Physics 11C – General Physics: Electricity and Magnetism lab

Physics 106 – Introduction to Modern Physics

Physics 124 – Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Physics 150 – Quantum Mechanics

Physics 151 – Advanced Modern Physics

Physics 172 – Biological Physics (new course designed, implemented in Catalog, and taught for the first time in Fall 2022)

Honors and Awards

Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, 2022
Full member by invitation

Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching for the 2020-21 Academic Year
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University, Sacramento

Teaching Fellow of the Year for the 2007-08 Academic Year
Physics Department, Boston University, Massachusetts