Ben Zager
Postdoctoral Researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory
United States
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Top SchoolBen Zager is an experimental condensed matter physicist and postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory with nine years of research experience probing emergent phenomena in strongly correlated and frustrated magnetic materials. He combines resonant x-ray scattering and spectroscopy with hands-on crystal growth and van der Waals materials fabrication to connect experimental probes to novel electronic behavior. His PhD work at Brown built deep expertise in transition metal oxides and advanced synchrotron techniques, while earlier projects ranged from polymer nanofiber fabrication to image-recognition software, reflecting a practical, cross-disciplinary problem-solving approach. Ben’s background in engineering physics and applied math (Tufts) informs a quantitative, instrumentation-minded perspective that often leads him to build custom experimental apparatus and analysis tools.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Brown UniversityBachelor's degree, Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics at Tufts University
Github Skills (5)
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software-defined-radio5
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
DutchGFX/Julia
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes in 21 days
bzager/paper2latex
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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