Education & Training

Current FRIB faculty

FRIB faculty are world-leading experts in nuclear science and related fields. Their research makes use of FRIB’s capabilities and supports a range of scientific and technical applications. Faculty hold joint appointments with Michigan State University, connecting FRIB’s research programs with academic departments. They collaborate with researchers from institutions around the world and contribute to a multidisciplinary research environment.

FRIB offers training and research opportunities to graduate students who routinely meet and work side-by-side with leading researchers in nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear chemistry, accelerator physics, and engineering. Graduate students at FRIB have the opportunity to watch, participate in, and lead discoveries of things no one knew before. In the process, they develop skills and connections to excel in a wide variety of careers. Students can a graduate degree through MSU’s Physics and Astronomy department, Chemistry department, or College of Engineering by working with the faculty and staff at FRIB.

The profiles below provide information about FRIB faculty and their areas of focus.

Daniel Bazin

Joined the laboratory in 1994

The focus of my research is centered on the study of exotic nuclei and the most efficient ways to unravel their properties.
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Scott Bogner

Joined the laboratory in 2007

My research focuses on applications of renormalization group (RG) and effective field theory (EFT) methods to the microscopic description of nuclei and nuclear matter.
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Georg Bollen

Joined the laboratory in 2000

My research interests are related to nuclear and atomic physics with focus on the study of basic properties of atomic nuclei very far away from the valley of stability.
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Alex Brown

Joined the laboratory in 1982

My research in theoretical nuclear physics is motivated by broad questions in science: What are the fundamental particles of matter?
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Edward Brown
My work connects observations of neutron stars with theoretical and laboratory studies of dense matter.
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Kyle W. Brown

Joined the laboratory in 2016

My research focuses on using nuclear reactions to probe how neutrons and protons behave in systems ranging from atomic nuclei to neutron stars.
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Sean Couch
My research centers around unraveling the mystery of how massive stars explode at the end of their lives.
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Pawel Danielewicz

Joined the laboratory in 1988

My area of research involves studying the central energetic reactions of heavy nuclei, which help test bulk nuclear properties such as the nuclear equation of state.
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Katharina Domnanich

Joined the laboratory in 2022

At FRIB, a variety of by-product radionuclides will be created that are of immense value for numerous disciplines, viz. nuclear medicine, astrophysics, and Stockpile Stewardship Science.
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Alexandra Gade

Joined the laboratory in 2002

The focus of my research is the structure of atomic nuclei in the regime of very unbalanced proton and neutron numbers.
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Alyssa Gaiser

Joined the laboratory in 2022

The Gaiser Group’s research is targeted at meeting societal needs for better energy and medical applications.
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Venkatarao Ganni headshot

Joined the laboratory in August 2016

The development of practical and new cryogenic systems and components needed for the efficient and reliable operation of superconducting accelerators is my primary interest.
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Paul Guèye

Joined the laboratory in 2018

My research is in experimental nuclear physics with a focus on neutron-rich isotopes along the neutron dripline.
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Yue Hao

Joined the laboratory in 2016

A particle accelerator is designed to accelerate basic charged particles, such as electrons, protons, and ions, to higher energy.
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Nusair Hasan

Joined the laboratory in 2018.

At the MSU Cryogenic Initiative, we offer opportunities both in theoretical and applied research on thermal-hydraulic process equipment and systems for cryogenic applications. My research focus is toward the advancement of cryogenic processes and technology, specifically in regard to helium refrigeration, heat exchangers, multi-phase flow and heat transfer, and gas purification.
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Heiko Hergert

Joined the laboratory in 2014

My group is developing sophisticated computational many-body methods for nuclei and other strongly correlated quantum systems, and applying them to address scientific questions ranging from the validation of nature’s fundamental symmetries at the smallest scales to the origin of elements in the cosmos.
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Hironori Iwasaki

Joined the laboratory in 2009

My research focuses on the investigation of the structure and dynamics of rare isotopes which have unusual proton-to-neutron ratios compared to stable nuclei that exist in nature.
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Dean Lee

Joined the laboratory in 2017

The Lee research group is focused on connecting fundamental physics to forefront experiments.
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Sean Liddick

Joined the laboratory in 2009

The research carried out in my group addresses two critical questions in low-energy nuclear science: (1) how do we achieve a comprehensive and predictive model of the atomic nucleus and (2) how are elements made in during the explosive end of a massive star?
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Steven Lidia

Joined the laboratory in 2016.

Contemporary and planned accelerator facilities are pushing against several development frontiers.
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Steven Lund

Joined the laboratory in 2014

A common theme in my research is to identify, understand, and control processes that can degrade the quality of the beam by increasing phase-space area or can drive particle losses.
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Bill Lynch

Joined the laboratory in 1980

We have a broad experimental program in nuclear physics. The main thrust of our program is to determine how the equation of state of nuclear matter changes when we increase the fraction of nucleons that are neutrons in the matter.
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Kei Minamisono

Joined the laboratory in 2004

My current research interest is to measure the size, shape, or the charge radius of radioactive nuclides that occur near the limit of nuclear existence.
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Wolfgang Mittig headshot

Joined the laboratory in 2011

Since my university studies, first in Germany and later in France, I involved myself in very general problematics, such as the foundation of quantum mechanics (Bell inequality), together with more practical applications, such as nuclear energy and environment.
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Fernando Montes
My research is in the field of experimental nuclear astrophysics.
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Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic

Joined the laboratory in 2010

My research interests reside at the interface between nuclear and particle physics.
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Witek Nazarewicz

Joined the laboratory in 2014

The main area of my professional activity is the theoretical description of short-lived nuclei that inhabit remote regions of the nuclear landscape. This research invites a strong interaction between nuclear physics, applied mathematics and statistics, and high-performance computing.
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Filomena Nunes

Joined the laboratory in 2003

Unstable nuclei are mostly studied through reactions, because they decay back to stability, often lasting less than a few seconds.
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Brian O'Shea
My research focuses on the growth and evolution of galaxies over the age of the Universe, as well as understanding the behavior of the hot, diffuse plasmas that constitute much of the baryons in and around galaxies.
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Peter Ostroumov

Joined the laboratory in 2016

Particle accelerators are major tools for discovery in nuclear physics, high-energy physics, and basic energy science.
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Aldric Revel

Joined the laboratory in 2023

My research interests hinge around the study of nuclear forces at play in nuclei with large neutron to proton asymmetry.
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Ryan Ringle

Joined the laboratory in 2009

My primary research interests include nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics, and fundamental interactions.
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Kenji Saito
The accelerator is the base tool for nuclear physics, high-energy physics, light sources, medical applications, and so on.
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Hendrik Schatz
The goal of our experimental and theoretical research program is to understand the nuclear processes that shape the cosmos by creating elements and generating energy.
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Gregory Severin

Joined the laboratory in 2016

Our group is developing a method for collecting and purifying byproduct radionuclides from FRIB called “isotope harvesting.”
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Bradley Sherrill
I study methods for production and separation of rare isotopes.
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Jaideep Taggart Singh
Physicists believe that there were equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early history of the universe, but now the observable universe is composed of matter – so how did the antimatter vanish?
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Agnieszka Sorensen

Joined the laboratory in 2024

My research centers on bulk properties of dense strongly interacting matter, often summarized in the form of its equation of state (EOS) or phase diagram.
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Artemis Spyrou
The elements we observe today on earth were all created inside stars. My group works on understanding how different stellar environments contribute to the synthesis of elements we see in the universe.
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Andreas Stolz

Joined the laboratory in 2001

My primary research interest is centered on the production of rare isotope beams with fragment separators and the study of the structure of nuclei at the limits of existence.
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Betty Tsang

Joined the laboratory in 1980

As an experimentalist, I study collisions of nuclei at energies at approximately half the speed of light.
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Jie Wei

Joined the laboratory in 2010

My scientific research involves accelerator physics of high-energy colliders and high-intensity hadron accelerators, beam cooling and crystallization, development of spallation neutron sources, development of compact pulsed hadron sources, development of hadron therapy facilities, development of accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor programs for thorium energy utilization and nuclear waste transmutation, and development of accelerators for rare-isotope beams.
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Christopher Wrede
Our research focuses on studying nuclei experimentally to probe fundamental questions about our Universe.
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Xing Wu
Why is the Universe we live in made of matter, instead of anti-matter? What is dark matter made of? These mysteries in modern physics can be addressed by studying the fundamental symmetries of nature. My research at FRIB investigates these fundamental questions using ‘table-top’ size experiment.
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Ting Xu

Joined the laboratory in 2012

My research group’s focus is to advance the application of superconductivity to large-scale accelerators.
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Remco Zegers
The research in our group focuses on the spin-isospin response of nuclei of relevance for astrophysics, neutrino physics, giant resonances and evolution of nuclear structure.
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Vladimir Zelevinsky headshot

Joined the laboratory in 1992

A complex nucleus is a great example of mesoscopic systems, in between microscopic and macroscopic worlds, with wealth of problems typical for both.
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