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Alumni Spotlight – Andrew Zeidell

Dr. Andrew Zeidell graduated from the Wake Forest Physics PhD Program in 2020 and is now an AAAS Science and Technology Policy fellow with the National Science Foundation. In the following interview with Professor Fred Salsbury he shares the story of his career path and […]


Congratulations Ajay Kandada

Congratulations to Professor Ajay Kandada and his team for publishing an article in The Journal of Chemical Physics entitled “Measurement principles for quantum spectroscopy of molecular materials with entangled photons”. Professor Kandada’s research involves the use of ultrafast pulsed lasers to study the optical […]


Alumni Spotlight – Maxim Zalutskiy

Meet Dr. Maxim Zalutskiy, Wake Forest Physics PhD program class of 2016. Dr. Zalutskiy now works as a quantitative financial analyst. In this interview with Professor Fred Salsbury, Dr. Zalutskiy shares information about his career path and reflects upon his memories at Wake. Prof. Salsbury: […]


Alumni Spotlight – Louis Keiner

In the following interview we hear from Dr. Louis Keiner, Professor of Physics and Physical Oceanography at Coastal Carolina University, also serving as the interim Dean of the HTC Honors College there. Dr. Keiner was an undergraduate physics major here at WFU and reflects on […]


Meet our 2023 graduating PhD and MS students

Ellie Alipour, Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Daniel Kim-Shapiro Ph.D. Thesis: Studies in Blood and Blood Protein Therapeutics Research Focus: Finding a potential antidote for CO poisoning, studying sickle cell disease and introducing a fitting animal model for it, and studying blood clots and treatments for this subject on both […]


Timothy Carlson to represent WFU Physics in Scotland

Timothy Carlson, graduate physics student, is the lead graduate student in the quantum computing project in the Nanotechnology Center. He has been granted the exciting opportunity to represent the department and the center at the UK Graduate Summer School in Condensed Matter Theory at the […]


Alumni Spotlight – Chandran Sabanayagam

“: I am a full-time researcher at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, part of the University of Delaware.  I train scientists on how to use state-of-the-at light microscopes and atomic force microscopes.”


Alumni Spotlight – Victoria Gee

Dr. Victoria Gee graduated from Wake Forest in 2016 and is now a Medical Physicist working at Nuvance Health in Kingston, New York. In the following interview Professor Jed Macosko discusses with Dr. Gee her career path and Dr. Gee provides valuable advice regarding college, […]


Alumni Spotlight – Chad McKee

Meet Dr. Chad McKee, Wake Physics class of 1987. After graduating, he earned a PhD from Duke University and entered a career of scientific work in the military. In this interview with Professor George Holzwarth, Dr. McKee discusses his career path and how his experience […]


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