Ryan Murphy, 2016-2017 AIP Congressional Science Fellow

Member Society: American Physical Society

Background

Ryan Murphy received a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. For his doctoral research, he studied the origin of Galactic cosmic rays with an experiment that flew on a NASA long-duration balloon launched from Antarctica, and made two trips totalling five months to the continent. While a graduate student, he led his departments peer mentoring program and was involved in science outreach. He received a B.A. with majors in Physics and International Studies and a minor in Political Science from Northwestern University. At Northwestern, he competed on the Speech Team for four years, and continues to help run an annual speech tournament for high school students. A native of Minnesota, he spent much of his childhood in New Delhi, India, and Hong Kong before returning to the United States for his undergraduate education.