Dr. Niseem Magdy

I have loved science since I was young, particularly physics and math. I have always been curious about the underlying mechanisms of natural phenomena and how their behavior can be explained precisely by math and physics. I received my Bachelor of Science degree in physics from AL-AZHAR University in Cairo at the end of 2010. In 2014, I joined the Brookhaven National Laboratory as a visiting scientist; then, I started my Ph.D. program in August 2015 and completed the Ph.D. in October 2018 at State University of New York, Stony Brook. From 2018 to 2022, I worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the physics department of University of Illinois, Chicago. Currently, I am a research associate at Stony Brook University. My current work focuses on studying the strongly interacting medium (quark-gluon plasma), a liquid that exists at an extremely high temperature and/or density. It is believed that the universe was in a quark-gluon plasma state up to a few milliseconds after the Big Bang. Our study could help explain more mysteries about how the universe became what we know today.