As associate director leading the FRIB Office for Education, Workforce, and Career Development, Remco Zegers supports the well-being and career growth of students and postdoctoral researchers at FRIB. The FRIB Office for Education, Workforce, and Career Development organizes, coordinates, and provides support for undergraduates, graduate students, and research associates, including research activities; recruiting, education, and workforce development; career development activities; wellness and community building; educational and workforce development collaborations with on- and off-campus organizations and partners; and nuclear and accelerator science curriculum development.

In 2003, Remco joined the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and became an assistant professor at Michigan State University (MSU), where he is now a professor of physics at FRIB and in the MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is part of a collaboration of scientists (from 20 U.S. universities; Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and scientists in the field of rare-isotope research from Europe, Japan, and Canada) that developed the scientific case and conceptual design for FRIB’s High Rigidity Spectrometer (HRS). Remco serves as the HRS project’s scientific spokesperson.

His scientific research is in experimental nuclear astrophysics, specifically charge-exchange reactions. He is especially interested in supernova and the processes that create elements in the universe. He also studies processes that involve neutrinos and their astrophysical applications to understand how those particles interact with matter.

Remco earned a PhD in mathematics and natural sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 1999. After graduation, he worked as a postdoc at the SPring-8 facility (focusing on the photoproduction of kaons) and the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (focusing on nuclear charge-exchange reactions) in Japan.

Remco is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.