Based in Princeton, New Jersey, we are a diverse team of professionals with extensive experience in scientific research, science education across all stages, education leadership, and artificial intelligence.
📍 Princeton, New Jersey
Co-Founder & Academic Director
Dr. Samsonau brings two decades of expertise across scientific research, research education at all levels from middle school to graduate school, and industry R&D in AI, data science, and finance. His innovations in education over the years are enabling authentic research mentoring to scale to every talented student.Read full profile →
Strategic Advisor
Matthew has over 30 years of experience advancing research-based education at some of the world's leading high schools: Latymer Upper School, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and the Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science. A pioneer in bringing authentic research into secondary education, he has mentored countless students who went on to excel in science, engineering, and innovation.
Strategic Advisor
Dr. Perkins brings 30 years of experience in R&D program management and technology commercialization from Schlumberger and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. A prolific inventor with 21 patents and more than 100 invention disclosures, he led programs such as PPPL's $27M FLARE fusion facility and now guides our mission to teach students the research methods used to create first-of-a-kind technologies in industry and national labs.
Physics Lyceum courses are taught by expert physicists working in the Deep Physics methodology.
Co-Founder & Academic Director
Dr. Samsonau brings two decades of expertise across scientific research, research education at all levels from middle school to graduate school, and industry R&D in AI, data science, and finance. His innovations in education over the years are enabling authentic research mentoring to scale to every talented student.Read full profile →
Modern Physics Instructor
Dr. Deshko is a physics researcher, educator, and writer, with more than twenty years of research from gravitation to silicon photonics. He wrote the Springer textbook Special Relativity: For Inquiring Minds, the primary text of the Lyceum course, and has taught in the Johns Hopkins and Columbia summer programs for talented teenagers.Read full profile →
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