Andrew P. Zwicker (born May 17, 1964) is an American physicist and politician who has served in the New Jersey Senate from the 16th Legislative District since 2022.
He is a member of the Democratic Party as well as the head of the Science Education Department of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
His dissertation was entitled "Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas Using Flat Multilayer Mirrors as Dispersive Elements".
At Princeton University, Zwicker was previously a part-time lecturer in the Writing Program[6] and a faculty advisor for freshmen and sophomores in Rockefeller College.
[9] In 2006, Zwicker and a collaborator won the university's Art of Science competition for a photograph entitled "Plasma Table"[10] and was for several years afterwards a co-organizer of the event.
His publications include: Zwicker ran for the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives in the 12th Congressional District.