AAPT: American Association of Physics Teachers

Meet Daniel

For me, the initial hook of physics was the sheer magic of predictive math: the fact that you could take a word problem, scribble down some equations, and actually predict the outcome of a real-world experiment was mind-blowing. Later on, I realized that experimental physics is basically an excuse for creative tinkering and problem-solving, which is exactly the energy I try to bring to my students. My favorite class to teach is one I developed where students design, machine, instrument, and calibrate their own fluid dynamics apparatus from scratch. But a very close second was recently leading my Quantum Information class through testing Bell's inequality. Watching students look on students' faces when they realize that they've just shown that the universe can't be both local and real is just too cool!