Matthew Sievert joined the faculty in New Mexico State University’s Department of Physics in 2020. He is an associate professor, specializing in both experimental and theoretical high-energy nuclear physics.
Prior to joining NMSU, Sievert was a postdoc at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He completed previous postdocs at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
“I was familiar with NMSU from my time as a postdoc at LANL, and I regarded its research faculty in both experimental and theoretical nuclear physics as outstanding,” Sievert said. “The possibility to join that faculty and deepen my research activities across New Mexico were always very attractive to me.”
Sievert supervises a large, diverse research group of graduate students and sometimes undergraduate students. He teaches a range of courses in the Department of Physics, primarily upper-division undergraduate courses like Math Methods and Quantum Mechanics and graduate courses like Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory. He also supervises another small group of dedicated graduate students working on projects related to physics education research.
“I love teaching, and as a scientist, approaching my teaching efforts scientifically is the most natural thing in the world,” Sievert said. “Without a doubt, the thing I am most proud of is the accomplishments of my students. I work with dedicated, intelligent, creative, hard-working students who teach me and inspire me every day."
He added, "I am the luckiest man in the world: I get to work on cool physics projects, together with amazing people, make a tangible difference in people's lives and learn something new every day. It would be a privilege to do this for the rest of my life.”
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CUTLINE: Matthew Sievert is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at New Mexico State University. (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman)