Based in Princeton, New Jersey, we design the programs, teach the physics, direct the research, build artificial-intelligence systems for research and education, and advise how the work connects to professional science and R&D.
📍 Princeton, New Jersey
Co-Founder & Academic Director
Read full profile →Dr. Samsonau brings two decades across scientific research, physics and research education, and industry R&D. He has designed and led secondary-school and university research programs, taught from middle school through graduate and professional education, and published methods for physics and authentic research education. At SoTS he directs the academic programs and Research Labs.
Co-Founder & Technology Director
Olga is the builder behind SoTS technology. She brings an educator's understanding of how people learn, a product leader's judgment about what matters, and an engineer's ability to make ambitious ideas work. At SoTS, she sets technology strategy, leads architecture and engineering, and turns the organization's vision for research and education into dependable products.
Physics Lyceum courses are taught by physicists who also know how to teach demanding material to young students. They work in the Deep Physics methodology: reasoning from first principles, explaining ideas aloud, and learning through problems and investigation.
Physics Instructor & Academic Director
Read full profile →Dr. Samsonau brings two decades across scientific research, physics and research education, and industry R&D. He has designed and led secondary-school and university research programs, taught from middle school through graduate and professional education, and published methods for physics and authentic research education. At SoTS he directs the academic programs and Research Labs.
Modern Physics Instructor
Read full profile →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.
Strategic advisors do not replace the instructors or lab directors. They contribute experience from education leadership, professional R&D, and the management of scientific programs.
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. With 21 patents and more than 100 invention disclosures, and experience leading programs including PPPL's FLARE fusion facility, he advises SoTS on research-program design and the practices used to develop first-of-a-kind technologies in industry and national laboratories.
The Society of Teen Scientists is owned and operated by Authentic Research Partners LLC.