Physics graduate Kasia Wiech
Graduating Physics Major Wins Prestigious NSF, Fulbright Fellowships
UF physics major and 2021 graduate Kasia Wiech is the recipient of two prestigious fellowships, from the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright US Student Program.
Kasia was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) for fall 2021. This fellowship provides a three-year annual stipend of $34,000, a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees (paid to the institution), and access to opportunities for professional development available to NSF-supported graduate students.
Kasia is also an awardee of the Fulbright Student Program’s U.S.-Polish Fulbright commission. Starting in October 2021, Kasia will be in Warsaw, Poland, working with the Quantum Controls and Technology Group and the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at the University of Warsaw. Afterwards, she will begin graduate study as an NSF Graduate Fellow at Syracuse University. At Syracuse, Kasia plans to work on experimental optics for the LIGO gravitational wave observatory.
While at UF, Kasia was an undergraduate research assistant with the Any Light Particle Search (ALPS) collaboration and worked with professors Guido Mueller and David Tanner in the Department of Physics. Kasia also was a participant in UF’s International REU program in the summer of 2019 in Hamburg, Germany.
