Kalakios joined the U of M’s School of Physics and Astronomy in 1988. When he’s not pondering the physics of comic books, his research ranges from the nano to the neuro, with active studies of the optical and electronic properties of hydrogenated amoprhous silicon thin films containing silicon nanocrystalline inclusions.

He’s also busy with investigations of voltage fluctuations recorded from the brains of awake, behaving rats.