Andrew Zwicker

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.