Autor/-in: Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson discovered a love of physics as a college student at UCLA and continued to a PhD in physics at UC San Diego. There, his research focused on longitudinal waves in plasmas consisting of a single species of charged particle. Dr. Anderson has been a lecturer at the University of San Diego since 2009. His favorite courses to teach are Thermal and Statistical Physics and The Physics of Modern Life; the former is (to his mind) the most under-appreciated branch of physics, and the latter is a course he developed so that students outside of the sciences may understand the role that physics plays in their everyday lives. At USD, he has also contributed to the development of the physics laboratory curriculum, and he serves on the committee that oversees the college's core curriculum. In his spare time, he enjoys surfing and exploring tide-pools with his wife and their two boys.