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Santa Barbara, California240

Assistant Professor in Quantum / AMO Physics, Department of Physics

University of California, Santa Barbara
Saratoga, California69

Full-Time Physics Instructor

West Valley-Mission Community College District
Riverside, California59

Project Scientist Series in Physics and Astronomy (Open Search)

University of California, Riverside
Palo Alto, California315

2027 Panofsky Fellowship at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Stanford University
Berkeley, California53

Hoffman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow — Nuclear Nonproliferation

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Santa Ana, California55

PT POOL - Physics and Engineering Instructor

Rancho Santiago Community College District
Santa Ana, California51

PT POOL - Astronomy & Physics Instructor

Rancho Santiago Community College District
San Marcos, California67

Assistant Professor of Physics - Applied Mechanics

California State University, San Marcos
Livermore, California56

Researcher in Physics

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Irvine, California60

Lecturer Pool Ad - Physics and Astronomy

University of California Irvine

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