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,(link is external) Chemistry department(link is external), or College of Engineering(link is external) by working with the faculty and staff at FRIB.

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

Experimental Nuclear Physics
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Accelerator Engineering
Accelerator Physics
Experimental Atomic Physics
Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics
Experimental Nuclear Physics
Inorganic Chemistry
Nuclear Chemistry
Radiochemistry
Theoretical Astrophysics and Nuclear Astrophysics
Theoretical Nuclear Physics
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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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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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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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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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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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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Keo 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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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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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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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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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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Shane Wilkins

Joined the laboratory in 2025

My research involves precisely investigating the properties of atomic nuclei by measuring their influence upon electrons that are bound to them in atoms and molecules. This is achieved through irradiating beams of radioactive atoms with intricate sequences of laser pulses, whereby electrons are sequentially excited and then ionized to reveal the electromagnetic properties of the nuclei at the heart of them.
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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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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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