Biography

Will Fox joined the Department of Physics in January 2025, and is affiliated with the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics.  He received his B.A. in Physics from Princeton University and Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Prior to the University of Maryland, he was Principal Research Physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and a Lecturer in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University.   Between his finishing his undergraduate degree and starting graduate school, he worked for a year teaching math and physics at a high school in Kathmandu, Nepal. His research is in high-energy-density plasma physics and plasma astrophysics. He received the Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics in 2019, and the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the APS Division of Plasma Physics in 2020.