Richard Gumbel

Hometown: Kansas City, MO

Undergraduate Institution: The Evergreen State College

Current Stage and Institution: PhD candidate at Michigan State University; visiting researcher at the Laboratoire des Deux Infinis

Discipline/Track: Physics

Research: Heavy-ion collisions. Uses time-dependent density functional theory to examine low-energy nuclear dynamics. Published topics include how N-Z asymmetry impacts the probability of sub-barrier nuclear fusion, and the suppression of transactinide formation by quasifission.  Recipient of the 2025-2026 Chateaubriand STEM Research Fellowship