Mark Scafonas, PhD

Mark Scafonas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics and Mathematics, joined the Gwynedd Mercy University faculty in 2022.

Dr. Scafonas earned his B.S. in Physics from St. Joseph’s University in 2001 and subsequently served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army and Virginia Army National Guard. He earned his M.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics and Ph.D. in Climate Dynamics from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. His dissertation focused on the development of a novel budget of wave activity in order to quantify the role of moisture in the development of mid-latitude, baroclinic waves and continues to study the changes in midlatitude atmospheric dynamics under the conditions of anthropogenic climate change.

Prior to coming to Gwynedd Mercy University, Dr. Scafonas was the Physics Lab Coordinator at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.