Maren Mossman
Maren Mossman, Ph.D., is the head of the Quantum Hydrodynamics Lab and the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of San Diego (USD) in the department of physics and biophysics. She earned her B.S. (2012), M.S. (2016), and Ph.D. (2019) in physics, all from Washington State University (WSU), where she continues collaborations with the Engels group on experiments and simulations with NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory.
Mossman is actively involved in the American Physical Society, where she is the chair-in-line for the CU*iP National Organizing Committee, a member of the Gender Inclusive Community Advisory Board, and a Career Mentoring Fellow. Her engagement with CU*iP began as an undergraduate in 2012, and she has since hosted two CU*iP conferences, one in 2020 at WSU and another in 2024 at USD.
Mossman studies the behavior of neutral Bose gas mixtures when cooled to temperatures near absolute zero. Her research involves the creation, manipulation, and investigation of dilute ultracold quantum gases, with interests in driven out-of-equilibrium quantum hydrodynamics, quantum simulation, quantum liquids, and few-body physics.