Career Mentoring Fellows

The Career Mentoring (CM) Fellows have received implicit bias training, mentor training, and expertise about APS career resources. They are leaders in physics across academia and industry and have demonstrated a dedication to advancing students' careers and to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

If you are interested in hosting a CM Fellow for a career talk, please contact careers@aps.org.

2023 - 2024 Fellows

  • Aaron LaForge, University of Connecticut Physics Department, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Adam Iaizzi, Booz Allen Hamilton, Senior Consultant
  • Alexandra Miller, Sonoma State University, Assistant Professor
  • Alix Dehayem, Stonybrook University, Program Coordinator
  • Amalia Fernandez Panella, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Program Officer
  • Ameer Mohammed, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Associate Research Physicist
  • Amruthesh Thirumalaiswamy, National Institute of Standards and Technology/Wesleyan University, Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University, Associate Professor
  • Ayala Glick-Magid, University of Washington, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Ben Zhu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Research Scientist
  • Benjamin Lienhard, Princeton University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Bhaskarjyoti Sarma, Purdue University, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Biswaranjan Behera, University of Florida, Adjunct Assistant Scientist
  • Chad Kishimoto, University of San Diego, Associate Professor
  • Christine Berven, University of Idaho, Associate Professor of Physics
  • Christopher Fasano, Professor, Professor of Physics
  • Cody Parker, Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute, Accelerator Physicist
  • Cristina Schlesier, Wellesley College, Visiting Lecturer
  • David Beke, University of Notre Dame, Research and Higher Education
  • Denis Candido, University of Iowa, Assistant Professor
  • Diane Markoff, North Carolina Central University, Professor
  • Douglas Higinbotham, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Senior Staff Scientist
  • Eduardo Ibarra Garcia Padilla, University of California Davis & San Jose State University, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Florian Effenberg, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Staff Research Scientist
  • Frances Hellman, UC Berkeley, Professor
  • Franz Rueckert, Lees-McRae College, Dean of Natural and Health Sciences
  • Hans Pieter Mumm, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Physicist
  • Hung-Yu Yang, University of California, Los Angeles, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Ilker Uzun-Kaymak, Nova Photonics, Inc., Research Physicist/Scientist
  • Jenna Walrath, Intel, Group Leader (Manager)
  • Jessica Schonhut-Stasik, Vanderbilt University, Doctoral Candidate
  • Jonathan Kwolek, U.S. Naval Research Lab, Research Physicist
  • Jonte Hance, Hiroshima University; University of Bristol, Phoenix Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Honorary Research Associate
  • Kaushini Wickramasinghe, City College of New York, Senior Research Associate
  • Kimberly Bowal, Harvard University, Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Kiril Streletzky, Cleveland State University, Professor
  • Kris Lui, American Association of Physics Teachers, Director & PI, The Organization for Physics at Two-Year Colleges
  • Mahmoud Hammouri, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Assistant Professor
  • Maren Mossman, University of San Diego, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Physics
  • Marko Ristić, Rochester Institute of Technology, PhD Student
  • Martin J Cooper, Consultant with Experience in Federal Government, Industry, and Academia, Martin J Cooper & Associates
  • Veronika Kruse, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Research Scientist (Physicist)
  • Robert E. Tench, RET and Associates, LLC, President and Chief Scientist
  • Saeed Pegahan, TOPTICA Photonics, Quantum Application Scientist
  • Sathwik Bharadwaj, Purdue University, Research Scientist
  • Shahida Dar, Mohawk Valley Community College, Professor
  • Tengiz Bibilashvili, University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Professor
  • Thomas Jenkins, Tech-X Corporation, Senior Research Scientist
  • Walker Steere, IonQ, Senior Engineer
  • Wim Cosyn, Florida International University, Assistant Professor
  • Xueying Lu, Northern Illinois University & Argonne National Laboratory, Assistant Professor
  • Yashika Ghai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, R&D Associate staff-Theory and Computation Plasma Physicist
  • Yongzhong Qian, University of Minnesota, Professor of Physics
  • Zlatan Aksamija, University of Utah, Associate Professor

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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