APS Career Mentoring Fellows

APS Career Mentoring Fellows

APS Career Mentoring (CM) Fellows are physicists working in industry, government, or academia, who are interested in mentoring students and early career scientists. CM Fellows participate in various activities at the DPP annual meetings to provide mentorship for students, such as conducting one-on-one career help desk appointments and reviewing student poster presentations. A list of CM Fellows connected with DPP is below.

Adam Kuang, Research Scientist, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)

Alex Tinguely, Research Scientist, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)

Ameer Mohammed, Associate Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Ami DuBois, Research Physicist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Andrew Seltzman, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ayushi Vashistha, Plasma Modelling Engineer, Applied Materials Inc.

Ben Zhu, Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Cris Barnes, Retired (was Scientist 5, Project/Program Director 6, and other roles), Los Alamos National Laboratory

Derek Thuecks, Associate Professor of Physics, Chair of the Physics Department, Washington College

Ehab Hassan, R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Florian Effenberg, Staff Research Scientist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Florian M. Laggner, Assistant Professor, NC State University

Horacio Gasquet, Technical Consultant, Persimmon Ridge Ventures

Ilker Uzun-Kaymak, Research Physicist/Scientist, Nova Photonics, Inc.

James Yang, Staff Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Jens von der Linden, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

Jeremiah Williams, Professor of Physics, Wittenberg University

John Caughman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Joseph Smith, Assistant Professor, Marietta College

Kathreen Thome, Scientist, General Atomics

Kenneth Hammond, Staff Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Lorin Matthews, Professor and Chair, Department of Physics, Baylor University

Mirela Cengher, Scientist, General Atomics DIII-D

Nicholas Hartley, Research Associate, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Rhea Barnett, Assistant Staff Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Robert Pinsker, Scientist VII, DOE-WDTS-designated Laboratory Education Director (LED), General Atomics

Stephanie Diem, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Theresa Wilks, Research Scientist, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)

Thomas Jenkins, Senior Research Scientist, Tech-X Corporation

Veronika Kruse, Research Scientist (Physicist), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Yashika Ghai, R&D Associate staff-Theory and Computation Plasma physicist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Young Dae Yoon, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory