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Nathan C. Keim (he/him)

Associate Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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keim@psu.edu

Office: 125 Davey Lab

• B.S. 2004, Physics, Haverford College
• Ph.D. 2010, Physics, Nagel Group, University of Chicago
• Postdoctoral Researcher, 2011–2014, Arratia Group, University of Pennsylvania

I’m a proud member of the Rainbow Science Network at Penn State.

Group members at Penn State

Updated February 2024

• Sebanti Chattopadhyay, postdoctoral researcher
• Ashbell Abraham, graduate researcher
• Surendra Padamata, graduate researcher
• Zhicheng Wang, graduate researcher
• Thanvanth Vinodh Kumar, undergraduate researcher
• Katherine Groomes, undergraduate researcher
• Owen McCulloch, REU researcher

Past group members at Penn State

• Tristan Rosenberry, undergraduate researcher (Lebanon Valley College)
• Grant Schubert, undergraduate researcher
• Jacob Rea, undergraduate researcher
• Julia Rice, undergraduate researcher (now a Physics graduate student at Syracuse University)
• Jennifer Lee, undergraduate researcher
• Travis Jalowiec, undergraduate researcher (Applied Physics master’s, University of Oregon)
• Julius McBride, undergraduate researcher
• Juliet Tate, undergraduate researcher (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
• Dr. Angel Martinez, Assistant Research Professor of Physics (now faculty at Northern Arizona University)
• Pamela McKnight, undergraduate researcher, 2021–22
• Nate Martin, undergraduate researcher, 2021–22 (now an EE graduate student at Penn State)
• Rebecca Sipen, REU researcher, 2021 (CSU Northridge, now a Physics graduate student, Tufts University)
• Shae Cole, REU researcher, 2021 (Lock Haven University, now at health physics, Georgia Tech)
• Pietro Elliott, undergraduate researcher
• Alexander Johnson, undergraduate researcher
• Aaron Bock, undergraduate researcher
• Aryeh Sapon, graduate researcher

Past group members at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (2014–2021)

• David Keating (co-advised with Dr. Hilary Jacks)
• Margo Thornton (co-advised with Dr. Varda Faghir Hagh and Dr. Hilary Jacks)
• Jake Mandel (co-advised with Dr. Hilary Jacks)
• Jenny Kwak (co-advised with Dr. Hilary Jacks)
• Charity Lizardo
• Claire Olney
• Esmeralda Orozco
• Jameson Jewell
• Levi Stafford
• Dani Medina
• Mara Niesyt
• Jahan Rassouli
• Grant Gilbert
• Audrey Profeta
• Juan Alejandro Ortiz Salazar
• Aidan McGuckin
• Jacob Hass
• Ben Kauffman
• Brian Kroger
• Donald Loveland
• Nick Adams
• Luke Horowitz
• Saul Medrano
• Umar Sohi
• Jenny Smit
• Peter Nelson
• Sam Philliber
• Natasha Proctor
• Devin Wieker