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Career Resources

With a degree in physics, you may choose to pursue graduate study, a career in academia or national laboratory, or work in the leading industries in biotechnology, scientific instrumentation, aerospace and defense.  


How to get started:
Schedule one-on-one meetings with your career consultant, who will assess and analyze what you need most. Whether you’re crafting a speech or preparing for a job interview, your career coach is there on the sidelines — pushing you into the game.  

Where our Ph.D. graduates go to work:

NANOPHYSICS (NAUMOV)  
Hasan, MD Tanvir • ’19 NIST
GALAXY EVOLUTION (BARGER)  
Sun, Jing • ’19  
COMPUTATIONAL BIOPHYSICS (DOBROVOLNY)  
Pinky, Lubna • ’18 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Rodriguez, Thalia • ’18 Lecturer, Indiana University—Purdue University Columbus
FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY (GRYCZYNSKI)  
Shumilov, Dmytro • ’14 Postdoctoral Fellow, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Kimball, Joseph • ’15 Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas Christian University
Doan, Hung • ’18 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
GALACTIC STRUCTURE (FRINCHABOY)  
Thompson, Ben • ’13 Github
O’Connell, Julia • ’17 Universidad de La Serena, Chile
MATERIALS SCIENCE (STRZHEMECHNY)  
Peters, Raul • ’10 Assistant Professor, Physics, Paine College, Augusta, GA
Paramo, J. Antonio • ’12 Goldman Sachs
Nemashkalo, Anastasiia • ’14 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Chapagain, Puskar • ’15 Instructor of Physics, Southern Arkansas University
Requena, Sebastian • ’16 Harris Night Vision