A physics lab and a woodshop might seem worlds apart, but for one professor at Indiana University, they have something in common: They’re both places where you can get your hands dirty.
“I’m an experimentalist, not a theorist, which means I like to work with my hands,” says Phil Richerme, an assistant professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics. “I’m always very engaged in building things.”