Education, Science literacy, STEM

Andrew Zwicker, a physicist, science educator, and a science communicator, serves as head of Strategic Partnerships and Public Engagement at PPPL. A fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association of Physics Teachers has named him to its list of 75 leading contributors to physics education. He is a member of the APS Committee on Informing the Public, past editor of the APS Forum on Physics and Society’s newsletter, and a past chair of that Forum. Additionally, he is a past member of the APS Committee on Education. At Princeton University he was a lecturer in the Writing Program for a decade and is currently a faculty advisor for freshmen and sophomores as well as for the women’s soccer team.