Mentoring & Teaching
Scientific Mentoring
Dinner with my TD Lee theory team at the Lakeside Veggie Restaurant in Shanghai (fall 2023)
In the context of my research, I have emphasized mentoring and training the next generations of researchers, with a particular emphasis on recruitment and support for those from historically marginalized and under represented backgrounds. To date, I have mentored and supervised/co-supervised over 70 Ph.D. students and post-docs (roughly half in each category), many of whom have advanced to careers in basic research and/or education. Whether a student or post-doc ultimately goes on to a career in science or some other field is less important to me than their experience in my group, formation of an independent, scientific mindset, and development of confidence in their own agency.
Click here for a list of my former students and post-docs follows, along with the most current information about their career that I am aware of:
Teaching
Dinner with my ACFI theory team at Formosa Chinese Restaurant in Amherst (spring 2023)
My career-long teaching passion has been in graduate and advanced undergraduate education focused on academic year courses in quantum field theory, graduate quantum mechanics, graduate thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, introductory elementary particle physics (graduate and undergraduate), and special topics courses in both collider and particle physics.
I have also presented numerous lectures at summer schools and special topical schools on subjects ranging from fundamental symmetries and neutrinos in nuclear physics, electric dipole moments, and neutrinoless double beta decay, through early universe quantum field theory and electroweak baryogenesis.