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Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Welcome to the Rutgers Department of Physics and Astronomy. Our research and education missions cover a vast extent. With our research we aim to advance knowledge about the physical world through measurement, observation, simulation, and theory. Our teaching mission is designed for the needs of non-science majors, engineering or medical students, majors planning on a career in research or indeed any student interested in how the world works!

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Adina Luican-Mayer, Rutgers 2012 PhD, is a new 2025 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator.

(Oct 23, 2025)

Adina Luican-Mayer is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Department of Physics (and is serving as Interim Department Chair). She received her PhD in 2012 working in Eva Andrei's group. Adina continues to work on moiré materials, now seeking to uncover the physics of moiré-induced polarization in atomically thin materials. See here for more details: https://www.moore.org/article-detail?newsUrlName=advancing-discovery-2025-experimental-physics-investigators

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