Career Opportunities

The Physics Department has a history of producing students that excel in their careers. Below is a representative list of employers of recent Cornell Ph.D. graduates in physics:

American Broadcasting Company
Argonne National Laboratory
Arizona State University
AT&T Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies)
Brookhaven National Laboratories
California Institute of Technology
Cambridge University
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Columbia University
Dell Computer
DESY
Duke University
Eastman Kodak
European Patent Office
Exxon
General Electric
General Motors
Goldman Sachs
Harvard University
Hughes Aircraft
IBM (Watson Research Laboratories)
Indiana University
Intel
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
Knox College
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
McKinsey & Company
Motorola
NASA
National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Institutes of Health
National University of Ireland
Naval Research Laboratory
NEC
New York University
Oracle (Japan)
Princeton University
Realplayer
Sandia National Labs
Smithsonian Observatory
Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford University
Sun Microsystems
Texas A&M
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Irvine
University of Illinois, Urbana
University of Texas, Austin
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  • Inês Firmo is a graduate student in the group of Professor Séamus Davis. Using an ultra-vibration insulated, dilution refrigerator based Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), Inês probes the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials such as heavy fermion compounds and cuprate high temperature superconductors. ‘STM’, Inês says, ‘is an outstanding probe for measuring with atomic resolution the topography and local density of states, as well as the band structure in a wide range of materials.’ More...