Raúl Briceño

Raúl Briceño was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2013, he received his PhD in Physics from the University of Washington. He then joined the Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics at Jefferson Lab as a postdoc. After three years as a postdoc, in 2016 he became the Nathan Isgur Research Fellow at Jefferson Lab. Shortly after, in 2017 he started an Assistant Professor position at Old Dominion University with a joint appointment at Jefferson Lab as a Staff Scientist. His research largely focuses on aspects of theoretical nuclear and particle physics. In 2023, he joined the Physics Department with a joint affiliation in the Nuclear Theory group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. His research as been recognized with the Kenneth G. Wilson Award for Excellence in Lattice Field Theory (2017) and the Department of Energy Early Career Award (2018). Outside of his research, he works on several outreach efforts aimed at making STEM more accessible. Two examples of these include the Remote Experience for Young Engineers and Scientists (REYES(link is external)) and the free virtual programming class Python4STEM(link is external).