Career Mentoring Fellows

Participate in APS meetings

The 2025–2026 Career Mentoring Fellows can take part in:

• APS Global Physics Summit
• Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) Meeting
• Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Meeting
• Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting
• Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting
• CU*iP

Fellows can participate in a number of ways, including providing feedback on undergraduate research sessions, serving on career panels, signing up for the resume help desk, and more. Fellows may be eligible for partial travel funding and registration reimbursement, based on financial need and available resources.

Your experience can make a difference

We welcome individuals with physics degrees from a diverse array of career paths and levels, including industry, government, academia, nonprofits, and public service, to apply to become Career Mentoring Fellows.

Apply to join

Applications for Career Mentoring Fellows are now open!

The application form will ask you to describe:

• Your interest in learning about physics careers and mentoring students
• Your previous experience as a volunteer or mentor to students or early-career physicists, through APS or other avenues
• Your leadership skills, preferably related to activities benefiting students
• Your commitment to two or more APS Core Values

As part of your application, you must also include contact information for a student or early-career scientist who can serve as a reference and describe your assistance or mentorship of students or early career scientists. Your reference will receive a request to submit a short statement of support on your behalf. We recommend that you reach out to this reference before you submit your application.

Invite a Career Mentoring Fellow to speak

Career Mentoring Fellows come from a variety of backgrounds and are experts in the physics career paths available to students. If you'd like to invite a Career Mentoring Fellow to speak at your institution or conference, please inquire below.

Meet the 2024–2025 Career Mentoring fellows

We wish to extend our thanks to this year's fellows for their work in supporting physics students and early-career scientists.