Career Mentoring Fellows

2022 - 2023 Fellows

• Stephanie Diem, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Jeremiah Williams, Professor of Physics, Wittenberg University
• Ami DuBois, Research Physicist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
• Ehab Hassan, R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Lorin Matthews, Professor and Chair, Department of Physics, Baylor University
• Cris Barnes, Retired (was Scientist 5, Project/Program Director 6, and many other roles), Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Robert Pinsker, Scientist VII, DOE-WDTS-designated Laboratory Education Director (LED), General Atomics
• Adam Kuang, Research Scientist, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
• Alex Tinguely, Research Scientist, MIT PSFC
• Andrew Seltzman, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Derek Thuecks, Associate Professor of Physics, Chair of the Physics Department, Washington College
• Young Dae Yoon, Junior Research Group Leader, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
• Jens von der Linden, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
• Horacio Gasquet, Technical Consultant, Persimmon Ridge Ventures
• Joseph Smith, Assistant Professor, Marietta College
• Kenneth Hammond, Staff Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Theresa Wilks, Research Scientist, MIT PSFC
• Ayushi Vashistha, Plasma modelling Engineer, Applied Materials Inc.
• Mirela Cengher, Scientist, DIII-D
• John Caughman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Rhea Barnett, Assistant Staff Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Florian M. Laggner, Assistant Professor, NC State University
• JAMES Yang, Staff Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Nicholas Hartley, Research Associate, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
• Rama Bala, President and CEO, Chance to Change Lives (CCL-US)
• Gabi Steinbach, title: Research Associate (in the role of a Scientific Project Manager), Georgia Institute of Technology
• Rex Tayloe, Professor, Indiana University
• Charlotte Evans, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
• Natalie Roe, Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Pierre Kawak, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of South Florida
• Viviane Zurdo Costa, Graduate Student / Field Applications Engineer, San Francisco State University / Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Yuanyuan Zhang, Assistant Astronomer, NSF's NOIRLab
• Rudi Michalak, Professor, University of Wyoming
• Alexandru Bogdan Georgescu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
• Yunjie Yang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, New York Proton Center
• Robin Bjorkquist, Instructor, Seattle University
• Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of Physics (with tenure), Lawrence Technological University
• Bradley Hauer, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder
• Joseph Simon, NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder
• Joseph Herzog, Assistant Professor, University of Indianapolis
• Kelli Hendrickson, Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Troy Messina, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Berea College
• Pedro Vianez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Brendan Kiburg, Scientist, Fermilab
• Nitica Sakharwade, Postdoctoral Researcher (Adiunkt in Polish), ICTQT, University of Gdansk, Poland
• Josh Hamblen, Professor and Associate Department Head, https://www.utc.edu/chemistry-physics/
• Qiuzi Li, Advanced Research Associate, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
• Stephen Winter, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Univ - Winston Salem, NC
• Sadjad Arzash, Postdoctoral Researcher, Syracuse University
• Margaret Koker, Assistant Professor, Lawrence University
• Kirtimaan Mohan, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
• Andrew Miller, Postdoctoral Fellow, Université catholique de Louvain
• Entao Yang, Data Scientist, Air Liquide
• Hana Dobrovolny, Associate Professor, Texas Christian University
• Michelle Mason, Visiting Assistant Professor, Whitman College
• Rebekah Herrman, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Knoxville
• Anthony (Tony) Musumba, Riverside City College, Riverside City College
• John Thomas, Post Doctoral Scholar, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Neha Pachauri, Process Lead, Amazon
• Ramesh Adhikari, Assistant Professor, Colgate University
• Chen-Ting Liao, Senior Research Associate of JILA Institute & Assistant Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer of STROBE, a NSF Science & Technology Center, University of Colorado Boulder
• Joe Grange, Data Scientist, USAID
• JAMES OBRIEN, Professor and Chair of Math Physics and Computer Science, Springfield College
• Christopher Palmer, University of Maryland - College Park, University of Maryland - College Park
• Michelle Espy, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Anuj Saini, Visiting Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
• Sofia Ferreira Teixeira, Postdoctoral Researcher, CIC nanoGUNE
• Wonhee Ko, Research Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Katherine Kaylegian-Starkey, applied master's student, University of Oregon
• Larry Isenhower, Associate Professor, Abilene Christian University
• Arlene Maclin, President & CEO, MacSmith STEM Enterprise
• Shaul Hanany, Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota

2022 Fellows

• Matt Beekman, California Polytechnic State University
• Gianpaolo Carosi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan, University of Toronto
• Ankita Gangotra, Georgetown University
• Robert C Group, University of Virginia
• Jorge Nicolas "Nico" Hernandez Charpak, American Physical Society
• Kristen Hill, Synrad
• Wasikul Islam, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Santosh KC, San Jose University
• Minjoon Kouh, Drew University
• Sujata Krishna, University of Florida
• Ilaria Luise, CERN - Stony Brook University
• Najmeh Mirian, DESY
• Astrid Morreale, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Christine Nattrass, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Mazen Nairat, Garden City Community College
• Isi Oyibo, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka
• Jennifer Pearce, Roger Williams University
• Kristen Reichenbach, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
• Jie Ren, Merck & Co., Inc.
• Firouzeh Sabri, The University of Memphis
• Francisco Salces-Carcoba, Caltech
• Hunter Sims, Francis Marion University
• Sesha Srinivasan, Florida Polytechnic University
• Stephanie Su, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
• Boyan Tabakov, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Erin Teich, University of Pennsylvania
• Kathreen Thome, General Atomics
• Iqbal Utama, Northwestern University
• Wennie Wang, University of Texas Austin
• Yanan (Laura) Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2021 Fellows

• Estanislao Aguayo, Scientist, Intel
• Clarice Aiello, Assistant Professor, UCLA
• Leslie Baksmaty, Geophysicist, Shell International Exploration and Production
• Brian Beckford, Physicist and Program Manager, Dept. of Energy
• Maria Conneran, Program Analyst, Dept. of Defense
• Heidi Doss, Adjunct Professor, Point Loma Nazarene University
• Chinedu Ekuma, Professor, Lehigh University
• Joe Haley, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
• Chris Hamner, Applied Physicist, Micro Encoder, Inc.
• Md Shafayat Hossain, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
• Rajeswari Kolagani, Professor, Towson University
• Shelly Lesher, Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
• Chris Luetjen, Senior Product Engineer, nLIGHT
• Allison Mueller, Protection and Controls Engineer, Avangrid
• Kristen Norton, Technical Product Manager, Synrad, A Novanta Company
• Jie Ren, Associate Principal Scientist, Merck & Co., Inc.
• Martin Rodriguez-Vega, Associate Editor, American Physical Society
• Adam Scott, Senior Data Scientist, Bayer
• Olga Shishkov, Postdoctoral Researcher, Colorado University, Boulder
• Sesha Srinivasan, Dept. Chair of Natural Sciences, Assistant Professor, Florida Polytechnic University
• Srikanth Srinivasan, Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
• Boyan Tabakov, Program Officer, AFOSR
• Ye Tao, Rowland Fellow, Rowland Institute at Harvard
• Chih Kuan Tung, Assistant Professor, North Carolina A&T State University
• Wennie Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
• Kebra Ward, Associate Professor & Department Chair, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

2020 Fellows

• Marciano Bagnoli, Quality Manager, Georgia-Pacific
• Susan Blessing, Professor, Florida State University
• Todd Brintlinger, Research Physicist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
• Heide Doss, Adjunct Professor, Point Loma Nazarene University
• Chrisy Xiyu Du, University of Hawaii
• Shannon Swilley Greco, Senior Program Leader, Science Education, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Joseph Haley, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
• Taylor Juran, Senior Battery Engineer, Voltaiq
• Dawn King, Geodetic Earth Scientist, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Jan Kleinert, Research Manager and Member of the Office of Chief Technology Officers, MKS|ESI
• Alexis Knaub, External Evaluator/Consultant
• Heather Lewandowski, Fellow of JILA/Professor and Associate Chair of Physics, University of Colorado
• Maria Longobardi, Chief International Relations Officer, BAQIS
• Samina Masood, Professor of Physics, University of Houston Clear Lake
• Christine Nattrass, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Jack Simonson, Assistant Professor of Physics, Farmingdale State College
• Jenna Smith, Assistant Professor of Physics, Pierce College - Puyallup
• Erin Teich, Wellesley University
• Jenna Walrath, Senior Staff Engineer, Intel
• Matthew Wright, Chair/Professor, Adelphi University

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