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.

Accelerator 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
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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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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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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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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Bradley Sherrill
I study methods for production and separation of rare isotopes.
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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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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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