Faculty Mentors

Each summer several undergraduate physics students participate in months long, paid Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Co-op research opportunities at PSU and at other institutions.

The faculty listed below have expressed interest in mentoring undergraduates in their research programs.

Research Area	Faculty
AMO	David Weiss, Mikael Rechtsman, Bryce Gadway, and Kenneth Knappenberger
Biological Physics	Lu Bai and Dezhe Jin
Condensed Matter	Heike Pfau, Eric Hudson, Nathan Keim, Qi Li, Ying Liu, Nitin Samarth, Jorge Sofo, Jun Zhu, Vin Crespi, Mauricio Terrones, Cui-Zu Chang, Zhinqiang Mao, Yinming Shao, Joshua Robinson, and Zhen Bi
Gravity/Cosmology	Martin Bojowald, Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash, David Radice, and Chad Hanna
Materials Science Engineering and Physics	Venkatraman Gopalan
Particle Astrophysics	Carmen Carmona, Doug Cowen, Luiz DeViveiros, Stephanie Wissel, Stephane Coutu, and Kohta Murase
Dark Matter	Carmen Carmona and Carlos Blanco
Physics Education Research	Louis Leblond and Eric Hudson

More specific research details can be found here https://sites.psu.edu/physicsreu/research/