Michael Ramsey-Musolf

With Professor Jeonghyeon Song, Konkuk University, Korea and Dr. Venus Keus, Senior Research Fellow, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, at the Higgs Physics as New Physics conference, Osaka, Japan, June 2023

I am passionate about increasing the participation of, and improving the climate for, physicists from historically underrepresented, marginalized, underserved, and invisible groups. In particular, I have been a vocal and effective advocate for the full inclusion of sexual and gender minorities in physics. Along with LGBTQIA colleagues from several other institutions, I am a founding organizer of lgbt+physicists, a grassroots organization dedicated to the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities in physics. In 2012, I served on the first-ever panel on this topic at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Boston. I have given interviews about LGBTQIA issues that have appeared on numerous occasions, including a 2022 article in APS News and a 2014 feature article in the Madison, Wisconsin LGBTQIA monthly Our Lives.

In 2018, the leadership at Brookhaven National Laboratory invited me to give a lab-wide presentation on LGBTQIA inclusivity in physics, with a talk entitled “Shattering the Lavender Ceiling: A Gay Theoretical Physicist’s Perspective”. I subsequently presented this talk at Helsinki University, University of Chicago, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jefferson Laboratory, and Helsinki Physics Days.

In 2023, I was honored to receive the APS Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, which represents the first time an openly gay physicist has received this level of recognition for scientific accomplishments and impact.

View this video for more on my DEIA advocacy.