<div class="xblock xblock-public_view xblock-public_view-vertical" data-request-token="9d64a48105d711f0a17b0affe2bbc7c1" data-usage-id="block-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@vertical+block@Course_Staff" data-init="VerticalStudentView" data-block-type="vertical" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-course-id="course-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019" data-has-score="False" data-graded="False" data-runtime-version="1"> <h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">Course Staff</h2> <div class="vert-mod"> <div class="vert vert-0" data-id="block-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@html+block@staff"> <div class="xblock xblock-public_view xblock-public_view-html xmodule_display xmodule_HtmlBlock" data-request-token="9d64a48105d711f0a17b0affe2bbc7c1" data-usage-id="block-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@html+block@staff" data-init="XBlockToXModuleShim" data-block-type="html" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-course-id="course-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019" data-has-score="False" data-graded="False" data-runtime-version="1"> <script type="json/xblock-args" class="xblock-json-init-args"> {"xmodule-type": "HTMLModule"} </script> <h1>Course Staff</h1> <h2>Active Staff</h2> <p>These team members were involved in the construction of the course and will be actively moderating the discussion forums in order to answer any questions that cannot be resolved with your fellow students.</p> <h3>Peter Dourmashkin</h3> <p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="/assets/courseware/v1/d35e3a6cf4c4c55ac222f2c4111d0b67/asset-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@asset+block/f3bea3eb-f1b9-4995-accf-b3b94bf0bea6-5829e10cff6e.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>Krishna Rajagopal</h3> <p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="/assets/courseware/v1/7019815ec7a6690bb13ccb80355c3e36/asset-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@asset+block/cfe3ee58-2212-4516-9953-3887f4d1689b-9eafcfabf24f.jpg" width="110" height="110" alt="Krishna Rajagopal" title="Krishna Rajagopal" align="left" hspace="15" />Krishna grew up in suburban Toronto; his family moved there from Munich when he was less than a year old. His mother and father, who taught at different Toronto universities, are originally from Germany and India. Influenced by an outstanding teacher who brought pioneering advances in recombinant DNA and molecular biology into his public high school biology class, Krishna arrived at Queen&rsquo;s University in Kingston, Ontario planning to major in biology. His freshman physics class rekindled his earlier interest in physics. He much appreciates the formative educational influences that shaped his own experience. He graduated from Queen&rsquo;s in 1988 and completed his PhD at Princeton in 1993. After stints as a Junior Fellow at Harvard and a Fairchild Fellow at Caltech he joined the MIT faculty in 1997. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2004. Krishna has spent one year each at UC Berkeley and at CERN, the physics laboratory outside Geneva, Switzerland. Krishna is a theoretical physicist who asks how the quarks that in ordinary matter are found confined within protons and neutrons behave in extraordinary conditions, conditions that provide a testbed for understanding how a complex world can emerge from simple underlying laws. His work links nuclear and particle physics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics, and string theory. Krishna was named a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow in 2010 and won the Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education in 2011. All of his classroom teaching has been at the freshman, sophomore, or junior level. He has taught quantum mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics and is currently teaching freshman electricity and magnetism. What he most enjoys is opening students' eyes, for the first time, to powerful and far-reaching ways of understanding the natural and technological world around them.</p> <h3>Michelle Tomasik</h3> <p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="/assets/courseware/v1/7f576eb6526dbfb843d35e7dfdf831c8/asset-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@asset+block/f318ff9e-7ae7-4386-81de-30c31d7931b6-bca0ec353f09.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>Analia Barrantes</h3> <p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="/assets/courseware/v1/4eb92aeb9eb50ce32e1bdc01588958c3/asset-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@asset+block/9dfc10c8-1f19-4cb5-a686-e68f9c19fc8b-6800fb500627.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&rsquo;s in physics from the University of Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from MIT.</p> <h3>Aidan MacDonagh</h3> <p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="/assets/courseware/v1/71a0a41a978322f9641d1d0886b654f4/asset-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@asset+block/e0b866e8-12cb-47c3-aa7e-18f1fd01156f-46247f568100.jpeg" width="110" height="110" alt="Aidan MacDonagh" title="Aidan MacDonagh" align="left" hspace="15" /></p> <p>Aidan MacDonagh is a Technical Instructor in Digital Learning in the Physics Department at MIT. His work supports residential and online physics courses and physics education research. He received a BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University with a research focus on electric propulsion and plasma physics simulation.</p> <p><b>edX User Name: aamacdon</b></p> <h3>George Stephans</h3> <p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="/assets/courseware/v1/ae0b0c32fdc3fec01298c70ef1680f5c/asset-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@asset+block/b3624138-90a0-4d2f-a814-f4f4a403381a-203169ea0994.jpg" width="110" height="110" alt="George Stephans" title="George Stephans" align="left" hspace="15" />George Stephans 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 /><b>edX User Name: gsfs</b></p> <h2>Staff who contributed to creating the course</h2> <h3>Saif Rayyan</h3> <p><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="/assets/courseware/v1/b995a5461b15bdbc7a4d6c8ee55becbc/asset-v1:MITx+8.02.3x+1T2019+type@asset+block/daec01ca-9688-4c0c-a405-9b1859732a81-02f96bebb671.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.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>