Bryan is a graduate student working with Dr. Katie Hinko in researching informal physics programs. He is an outreach coordinator for the graduate student organization WaMPS (Women and Minorities in the Physical Sciences), where he helps organize and collaborate with community partners for school visits and public events. In addition to hosting My Journey as a Physicist, he also hosts the Journeys of Scientists podcast through WaMPS. That podcast consists of informal conversations with graduate students from a variety of fields about their work, experiences that brought them to where they are today, life as a graduate student, and interests outside of school/work. 

Bill is a first-year graduate student working in Prof. Lin's lattice QCD group supported by the Michigan State University Distinguished Fellowship. As an undergraduate student, he held several officer positions in the University of Tennessee Knoxville chapter of Society of Physics Students and is continuing his passion for service at MSU. Bill hopes to one day be a professor at a university, inspiring future generations of physicists. Outside of physics and service, he enjoying mixed martial arts, music, and his two cats. Bill is an advocate for cluttering speech/communication disorder as a person who clutters.

Kiran is a third-year undergradutate student studying physics, mathematics, and French. He does research with Dr. Kendall Mahn on the DUNE experiment. Outside of physics, he is involved with activism and community engagement work around MSU and beyond. Kiran hopes to attend graduate school and do research in high energy physics. In his free time, Kiran enjoys taking walks, dancing, writing, and tabletop role-playing games.

Kinza Hasan is an undergraduate student at Michigan State University studying physics and Math. She is in Dr Lin’s group for LQCD research. On campus she is involved in the astronomy outreach program and the Society of Women in Space Exploration. After getting her Bachelor’s degree, Kinza aims to attend graduate school and continue to do research in high energy physics. Outside of her academic interests Kinza enjoys reading, writing, baking and spending time with family and friends. 

Esther is a middle-school student in the one of the Greater Lansing public schools. She is consdering to pursue a career in science but not sure which area yet. She loves music and plays piano, violin, and cello. She loves to read, swim, and hike. She writes stories with her friends at school about math-problem inspired characters and in a 2D to 3D multi-verse, and she helped to gather a small-group of school fan readers. 

Dr. Lin is a Taiwanese-American physicist. She designed the phone game "Quantum 3", which is free to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play store. She received her PhD from Columbia University in the City of New York. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the theory division at Jefferson Lab, a research assistant professor at the University of Washington, and visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining Michigan State University. She uses supercomputers to calculate the quark and gluon structure of baryons and mesons, such as their charges, form factors and parton distributions. She loves her research, because experiments around the world from the LHC to nuclear and neutrino physics can leverage the work to explore the frontiers of fundamental physics. She received an NSF Early-Career Award for her work and was one of the 25 recipients of 2020 Cottrell Scholar Awards. She is currently on Executive Committees for USQCD and the APS Division of Nuclear Physics. During COVID, she has been learning to cook a new dessert every weekend with her daughters and enjoyed traveling to outer space in VR.