Eric Gansen is one of two faculty athletic representatives for UW-La Crosse. He has served as an associate professor in the physics department at UWL since 2012. Gansen was an assistant professor in physics from 2008-11.
A postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado from 2005-08, Gansen was a graduate research assistant at the University of Iowa from 1999-2004. He earned his undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics from UWL in 1997, his master's degree in optical sciences from the University of Rochester (N.Y.) in 1998 and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Iowa in 2004.
Gansen completed the American Physical Society Industrial Summer Internship with General Electric Lighting Division in Cleveland, Ohio from May-August, 1997 and was an undergraduate research assistant in the physics department at UWL from 1995-97. He earned the UWL Graduating Senior of the Year in the College of Science and Allied Health in 1997
He was awarded the National Science Foundation RUI Grant and Applied Research-WiSys Technology Advancement Grant in 2014. Other grants include the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Special Seed Grant in 2011 and Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Faculty Infrastructure Program Research Grant in 2009. He received the UWL Faculty Research Grant in 2008 and 2011 and the National Research Council Postdoctoral Associateship from 2005-07. Gansen was awarded the American Physical Society Laser Topical Group Summer Research Grant (1996), Wisconsin Space Grant (1996) and Clark Van Galder Scholarship (1996).
He has been in 15 journal publications and books, presented at 28 conferences and had eight conference proceedings.
