FRIB faculty
More than 20 faculty members from participating MSU academic programs and over 30 additional PhD accelerator scientists and engineers will mentor the Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship (ASET) program participants. All faculty members have extensive research, mentoring, and teaching experience.
FRIB also has a large staff of non-PhD engineers, operators, and technicians who will further enhance the traineeship. This diversity of academic faculty and the extensive scientific and technical staff results in many opportunities for graduate student training in ASET at MSU.
The ASET program is part of MSU’s nuclear physics graduate program, which is nationally top-ranked according to the U.S. News & World Report. Over the past five years, MSU has awarded about 15 percent of the nuclear physics doctoral degrees.
Ready to apply or have questions? Please apply and inquire through our FRIB graduate studies page at frib.msu.edu/grad.
Support for several kinds of graduate fellowships in ASET is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of High Energy Physics, and the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics.
| Faculty | Department | Specialty | |
| Prof. M. Berz | Physics & Astronomy | Nonlinear Dynamics/Simulations | |
| Prof. P. Duxbury | Physics & Astronomy | Electron beam physics and applications | |
| Prof. Y. Hao | Physics & Astronomy | Accelerator Design/Simulations | |
| Dr. M. Ikegami (Adjunct) | Physics & Astronomy | Accelerator Control Systems | |
| Dr. S. Lidia (Adjunct) | Physics & Astronomy | Beam Diagnostics/Accelerator Systems | |
| Prof. S. Lund | Physics & Astronomy | Accelerator Theory and Modeling | |
| Dr. G. Machicoane (Adjunct) | Physics & Astronomy | Ion Sources | |
| Prof. K. Makino | Physics & Astronomy | Nonlinear Dynamics/Simulations | |
| Prof. P. Ostroumov | Physics & Astronomy | Accelerator Systems/SRF Technology | |
| Prof. C.-Y. Ruan | Physics & Astronomy | Electron beam physics and applications | |
| Prof. K. Saito | Physics & Astronomy | SRF Technology | |
| Prof. J. Wei | Physics & Astronomy | Accelerator Systems | |
| Prof. T. Xu | Physics & Astronomy | SRF, superconducting magnet technology | |
| Prof. R. Ganni | Mechanical Engineering | Cryogenic Systems | |
| Prof. N. Mueller | Mechanical Engineering | Turbo-machinery/Cryogenic Systems | |
| Prof. S. Balasubramaniam | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Computational Electromagnetics | |
| Prof. T. Grotjohn | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Plasma Physics | |
| Dr. A. Nassiri (Adjunct) | Electrical & Computer Engineering | RF Power Engineering | |
| Prof. P. Zhang | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Photoinjectors, Plasmas/Accelerators | |
| Dr. S. Tantawi (Adjunct) | Electrical & Computer Engineering | RF Power Engineering | |
| Prof. J. Verboncoeur | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Plasma and Accelerator Technology Modeling | |
| Prof. P. Mantica | Nuclear Chemistry | Project Management | |
| Prof. D. Morrissey | Nuclear Chemistry | Radiation Safety | |
| Academic Staff | Specialty | ||
| Dr. H. Ao | Accelerator Systems and Operation | ||
| Dr. F. Casagrande | Cryogenic Systems | ||
| Dr. A. Ganshyn | Cryogenic Systems | ||
| Dr. K. Fukushima | Accelerator Controls/Application Programming | ||
| Dr. W. Hartung | SRF Technology | ||
| Dr. T. Kanemura | Stripper Technology | ||
| Dr. S.H. Kim | SRF Technology | ||
| Dr. P. Knudsen | Cryogenic Systems | ||
| Dr. T. Maruta | Accelerator Operations/Diagnostics/Application Programming | ||
| Dr. A. Lapierre | Ion Sources, Charge Breeders | ||
| Dr. M. Patil | Mechanical Engineering of Accelerators | ||
| Dr. C. Morton | Accelerator Operations | ||
| Dr. M. Omelayenko | Cryogenics systems for Ion Sources | ||
| Dr. A. Plastun | RF Structures/Accelerator Design | ||
| Dr. X. Rao | Mechanical Engineering of Accelerators | ||
| Dr. M. Portillo | Optics of Secondary Beams, Diagnostics | ||
| Dr. D. Sanderson | Accelerator Alignment and Operations | ||
| Dr. R. Shane | Beam Diagnostics | ||
| Dr. S. Schwartz | Charge Breeders, Beam Coolers | ||
| Dr. A. Villari | Manipulation, Transport and Acceleration of Rare Isotope Beams | ||
| Dr. Y. Yamazaki | Accelerator Systems | ||
| Dr. T. Yoshimoto | Accelerator Operations/Modeling | ||
| Dr. T. Zhang | Accelerator System Design/Application Programming | ||
| Dr. S. Zhao | High Power RF and RF Control Engineering | ||
| Dr. Q. Zhao | Accelerator System Design/Operations/Application Programming | ||