Welcome to my website. I am Josh Cooperman, a theoretical physicist.
I thoroughly enjoy teaching and mentoring physics students, particularly in one-on-one and small-group settings. To support and inspire physics students from high school through graduate school, I tutor in-person and online. View my tutoring page for further information.
I primarily research the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity, but I have interests throughout the foundations of physics. I will write about these interests from an empiricist perspective on my blog.
I graduated as salutatorian from Lower Merion High School. I earned a BA in physics from Williams College, an MPhil in history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge, and a MSci and a PhD in physics from the University of California, Davis. I held postdoctoral fellowships at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and Bard College and a visiting assistant professorship at Bucknell University.
I now live in Colorado with my wife and two young daughters. When not practicing physics or playing with my girls, I cycle the open roads, crank up Mahler, cook obsessively, and champion environmental sustainability.