Justyna Zwolak

Justyna has her MS in Mathematics and PhD in Physics from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. She is currently a postdoctoral associate in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Transformation Institute at Florida International University (FIU). She is working on integrating social network analysis techniques with qualitative analysis in the study of student retention and persistence of physics majors. Prior to joining FIU she worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University, where she researched topics in Quantum Information Theory and also got involved in Physics Education Research. In particular, she worked on assessing student reasoning in upper-division electricity and magnetism using the Colorado Upper-Division Electrostatics diagnostic. In Quantum Information, she has developed novel analytical tools to construct entanglement witnesses for detecting bipartite entanglement in high dimensional quantum systems and for understanding the structure of quantum states.