Zarif Rahman
Faculty Fellow - Physics
Zarif Rahman is a nuclear physicist interested in understanding the mysteries of the universe. After completing high school in his home country, Bangladesh, he earned his undergraduate degree in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He then defended his Ph.D. in Physics at Michigan State University. His doctoral research involved developing a novel technique to extract crucial nuclear data and simulating the heating evolution in neutron star crusts. Outside of academia, Zarif enjoys traveling, photography and weightlifting.