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 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
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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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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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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Chloë Hebborn

Joined the laboratory in 2020

Joined the laboratory in 2023.
My research focuses on improving the theoretical description of reactions involving exotic nuclei that is needed to interpret experimental data and to arrive at a more fundamental understanding of the nuclear structure and reactions.
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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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Dean Lee

Joined the laboratory in 2017

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