Dr. Gabriele Belle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Since joining GMU, Dr. Belle has taught over a hundred lecture and lab courses. She developed the first online Astronomy lab course. Her work has centered around course design, teaching, and creating open educational resources. Dr. Belle is currently the coordinator for all College Physics lab courses. She also teaches College Physics in a special program, the EMPD2 program, in which students are prepared for attending Medical School.
Prior to joining GMU, Dr. Belle had worked in industry and was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Astronautics at the United States Air Force Academy. Before coming to the United States, she was Assistant Professor and Technical Director of a Microelectronics Research Center at the University of Ulm, in Germany. She was also a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble, France.
Dr. Belle’s research was on compound semiconductor materials, nanotechnology, and GPS signals. As an experimental physicist, she investigated quantum well structures with laser spectroscopy in high magnetic fields, developed new semiconductor devices, and built satellites to investigate the GPS signal above the GPS constellation.
Dr. Belle received her M.Sc. in Physics from the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and her Ph.D. from University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She also has a Master of Space Studies from the International Space University in France.