Randy Peterson
Visiting Scientist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
50 Vassar St.
Suite 36-285
Cambridge, MA 02139

617.253.0926 Tel
617.253.8509 Fax
rspeters@mirspeters

Randolph S. Peterson is a professor of physics on a Sabbatical leave from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He is a visiting scientist in professor Karl Berggren’s Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication group where he is working on e-beam lithography and superconducting nanowire detectors. Dr. Peterson is also interested in developing advanced laboratory experiments for undergraduates centered around the technology of a SEML and the science involved in lithography and its products.

Dr. Peterson received his B.S. in Engineering Physics and the M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Tennessee, completing his thesis work on accelerator-based atomic physics at Oak Ridge National Labs and N.Y.U. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of North Texas, University of Connecticut, and University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, as well as visiting scientist positions at Johann Wolfgang University Nuclear Institute in Frankfurt and GSI Darmstadt.