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.

Theoretical Astrophysics and Nuclear Astrophysics
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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
Edward Brown
My work connects observations of neutron stars with theoretical and laboratory studies of dense matter.
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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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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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