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Jonathan S. Wurtele earned undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. After spending a decade at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he returned to UC Berkeley in 1995, where he currently serves as a Professor of Physics. His research encompasses plasma accelerator theory and antihydrogen physics. Professor Wurtele is a member of the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, focused on synthesizing, trapping, and conducting precision measurements of antihydrogen to investigate the fundamental symmetries of matter and antimatter. He has been a Foreign Research Fellow at Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and has spent sabbaticals at the Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute of Science. He has also contributed to Berkeley Earth's temperature study and worked at NYU's Center for Urban Science Progress, studying the science of cities. Professor Wurtele is an APS Fellow and co-recipient of the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaching and conducting research in the field of physics, with a focus on plasma accelerator theory and antihydrogen physics.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.