Rate My Professor Romulus Godang

Romulus Godang is a Professor of Physics at the University of South Alabama, where he joined the faculty in 2007 as an Assistant Professor and has since advanced to full Professor. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Virginia Tech in 2000. Prior to his current position, he held a Research Fellowship at Cornell University, a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Virginia, and served as a Research Scientist at the University of Mississippi. Originally from Indonesia, Godang came to the United States to pursue graduate studies, initially focusing on a master's in condensed matter physics before obtaining his doctorate in high-energy physics.

Godang specializes in high-energy particle physics, with research interests in precision measurements of Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements to investigate the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe, test the Standard Model, and search for dark sector particles or other new physics beyond the Standard Model. He is a collaborator on the Belle II experiment at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan, since 2011, and the BABAR experiment at SLAC, Stanford University, since 2002. His earlier contributions include work on CLEO at Cornell University, HyperCP and CKM at Fermi National Laboratory, and CMS at CERN. Godang has co-authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating more than 131,000 citations. Selected recent publications include "Search for a Dark Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Inelastic Dark Matter at the Belle II Experiment" (Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131801, 2025), "Search for an Axiom-Like Particle in B → K(*) a(→γγ) Decays at Belle" (JHEP 12, 109, 2025), "Evidence for B⁺ → K⁺ ν ν̄ Decays" (Phys. Rev. D 109, 112006, 2024), "Tests of Light-Lepton Universality in Angular Asymmetries of B⁰ → D* Lepton Neutrino Decays" (Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181801, 2023), and "Measurement of CP Asymmetries in B⁰ → φ K_S with Belle II" (Phys. Rev. D 108, 072012, 2023). In 2017, he was named Scholar of the Year by the University of South Alabama chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Godang serves as Faculty Senator (term ending 2027), Treasurer of Phi Kappa Phi for 2025-2026 (recent Past President), and participates in the department's Speaker's Bureau on topics such as matter-antimatter asymmetry. He has received grants from the Department of Energy to support his research.