Nicolas Rothbacher

Master’s student in the Technology and Policy Program

Nic Rothbacher is a Master’s student in the Technology and Policy Program, researching corporate responsibility at the Materials Systems Lab. Before MIT, Nic got his Bachelor’s in physics and mathematics from the University of Puget Sound. He has worked as a research student at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) at Caltech and the Materials Science program at the University of Minnesota. Nic hopes to leverage science and technology to create a more equitable and sustainable world while attending MIT and after his expected graduation in 2020.