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<h1> Course Staff </h1><h2> Active Staff</h2><p>These team members were involved in the construction of the course and will be activley moderating the discussion forums in order to answer any questions that cannot be resolved with your fellow students.</p><h3>Michelle Tomasik</h3><p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edx.org/sites/default/files/person/image/michelletomasik_110x110.jpg" width="110" height="110" alt="Michelle Tomasik" title="Michelle Tomasik" align="left" hspace="15"/>Michelle Tomasik is a postdoc in the Department of Physics at MIT where she currently works on developing online classes and assists with physics education research and teaching introductory physics. She received her Ph.D. in physics from MIT working on photovoltaics and density functional theory.<br/><b>edX User Name: mirt14 </b></p><h3>Peter Dourmashkin</h3><p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edx.org/sites/default/files/person/image/dourmashkin_peter.ac4ad29dba3e.jpg" width="110" height="110" alt="Peter Dourmashkin" title="Peter Dourmashkin" align="left" hspace="15"/>Peter Dourmashkin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. His research interests are in Mathematical Physics, Lie Group and Algebra Representation Theory. He has been part of the development, implementation, and teaching team for Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL). He has developed OCW Scholar Courses, the physics curriculum for a new university, the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and is currently working on online learning through MITx and edX.<br/><b>edX User Name: peterdour</b></p><h3>Deepto Chakrabarty</h3><p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edx.org/sites/default/files/person/image/deepto_x110.jpg" width="110" height="110" alt="Deepto Chakrabarty" title="Deepto Chakrabarty" align="left" hspace="15"/>Deepto Chakrabarty is Professor of Physics and Astrophysics Division Head in the Physics Department at MIT. He received an S.B. in Physics at MIT in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Physics at Caltech in 1996. Chakrabarty joined the MIT faculty in 1999 and has taught classes in Classical Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Vibrations and Waves, Quantum Mechanics, and Astrophysics. His research specialty is in high-energy astrophysics and the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars, and he is the author of over 100 research papers. Chakrabarty was awarded the Buechner Teaching Prize in Physics from MIT in 2001 and the Bruno Rossi Prize in High Energy Astrophysics by the American Astronomical Society in 2006. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011.<br/></p><h3>Analia Barrantes</h3><p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edx.org/sites/default/files/person/image/analiabarrantes_110x110.jpg" width="110" height="110" alt="Analia Barrantes" title="Analia Barrantes" align="left" hspace="15"/>Analia Barrantes is a Physics Lecturer at the Experimental Study Group at MIT and is working in the development of pedagogical content for the freshmen physics courses on edX. Analia holds a master’s in physics from the University of Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from MIT.<br/>
</p><h3>George Stephans</h3><p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edx.org/sites/default/files/person/image/stephans_george.3799c85352c7.jpg" width="110" height="110" alt="George Stephans" title="George Stephans" align="left" hspace="15"/>George Stephans (PhD U Pennsylvania) is a Senior Research Scientist in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science and a Senior Lecturer in the Physics Department at MIT. His research work involves collisions of very high energy atomic nuclei. The goal of these studies is to understand the behavior of systems of sub-atomic constituents (quarks and gluons) at extremely high temperatures and densities. His most recent experiments use the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He has decades of experience teaching physics at MIT, including many different versions of 8.02.<br/></p><h3>Anna Frebel</h3><p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edx.org/sites/default/files/person/image/anna_110x110.jpg" width="110" height="110" alt="Anna Frebel" title="Anna Frebel" align="left" hspace="15"/>Anna Frebel is the Silverman ('68) Family Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor in the Astrophysics Division of the the Physics Department at MIT. Originally from Germany, she received her PhD from the Australian National University's Mt. Stromlo Observatory. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Frebel joined the MIT physics faculty in 2012. She has taught Astrophysics and Classical Mechanics, and mentors research students. For her research in the oldest stars in the universe and the early evolution of the chemical elements she received awards such as the 2007 Charlene Heisler Prize (Astronomical Society of Australia), the 2009 Ludwig-Biermann young
astronomer award (German Astronomical Society) and the 2010 Annie Jump Cannon Award (Americal Astronomical Society). In 2013 she received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, in 2016 she was named one of ScienceNews Magazine's 10 scientists to watch. Frebel also enjoys communicating science to the public, lately through her popular science book "Searching for the oldest stars: Ancient Relics from the Early Universe".<br/></p><h3>Ibrahim Cissé</h3><p>Ibrahim Cissé is currently the Class 1922 (Endowed) Assistant Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA. He is native of Niger, where he lived before moving to the US for college. He received his Bachelor of Sciences in Physics in 2004 from North Carolina Central University, and during that time his research was to investigate the packing of ellipsoids using M&M candies, under the guidance of Professor Paul M. Chaikin (then at Princeton University, and currently at NYU). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 2009. His graduate training was at the interface between Physics and Biology, working under Prof. Taekjip Ha (then in Illinois, currently at Johns Hopkins University). Then he moved to Paris from January 2010 to December 2012, where he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, jointly in the departments of Physics and Biology, as a Pierre Gilles de Gennes fellow and a European Molecular Biology Organization long-term fellow respectively. He moved back to the US in 2013, and worked as a Research Specialist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus before joining the Department of Physics at MIT in January 2014. He has received multiple national and international awards, including the Young Fluorescence Investigator award from the Biophysical Society in 2017, The Pew Biomedical Scholars, and the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award.</p><h2>Staff who contributed to creating the course</h2><h3>Christopher Chudzicki</h3><h3>Kaća Bradonjić</h3><h3> Saif Rayyan</h3><p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edx.org/sites/default/files/person/image/rayyan_saif_about.jpg" width="110" height="110" alt="Saif Rayyan" title="Saif Rayyan" align="left" hspace="15"/>Saif Rayyan is a lecturer and a Digital Learning Scientist in the Physics Department at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from Virginia Tech before switching his interests to teaching and to physics education research. In addition to teaching introductory physics, Saif has been working with several MIT faculty to offer physics MOOCs on edX and to use their content in MIT courses.<br/>
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