Mike Verostek, PhD (he/him) earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester in June, and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he is working on multiple projects designed to support and measure cultural change in graduate physics programs.  His prior work has focused on several other key issues in physics graduate education, ranging from the use of GRE scores in admissions to investigating how physics graduate students find research groups.

mjvsps@rit.edu

Recent Publications

Verostek, M., Miller, C. W., & Zwickl, B. M. (2024). Physics Ph.D. student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 20(1), 010136. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.20.010136 

Verostek, M., Miller, C. W., & Zwickl, B. M. (2024). Modeling when and how physics Ph. D. students search for a research group: The role of interests and prior research experiences in timely group integration. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 20(2), 020119. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.20.020119

Verostek, M. J., Griston, M., Botello, J., & Zwickl, B. M. (2024). Beyond The Big Bang Theory: Revealing the everyday research lives of theoretical physics faculty. The Physics Teacher, 62(6), 446-450. https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0145050