Mark Rosin

Mark Rosin is an associate professor of physics at the Pratt Institute and Executive Director at Guerilla Science, an international science and society organization. He is also the Director of Pratt’s STEAMplant Initiative. His work focuses on problems in plasma physics, applied mathematics, and computational physics, and the connections between science, art, and culture, and their realizations in the public places and spaces that science is least expected.

Mark teaches range of applied science courses, including Creative Coding, an upper division course for generative coding in the visual arts, and the Science of Light, which covers topics in color theory, vision, illusions, and optics from a fundamental physics perspective. He also teaches an interdisciplinary Pratt Integrative Course, Scientific Provocations, that looks at the intersections of Science and Art through the lenses of functionality, creativity, and activism.

Mark is the winner of the Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an Ashoka Foundation Emerging Innovator, and the 2024 Winner of the Pratt Research Impact award.

Mark completed his postdoctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles and received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He graduated valedictorian from the University of Bristol with a M.Sci in Physics. His work with Guerilla Science has been featured in the New Yorker, New York Times, and in VICE, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian, Wellcome Trust, Simons Foundation, NASA and Burning Man.

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Cambridge University.

M.Sci Physics, University of Bristol

Top 5 Papers

• Guerilla science: mixing science with art, music and play in unusual settings, M Rosin, J Wong, K O’Connell, M Storksdieck, B Keys, Leonardo 54 (2), 191-195
• Nonlinear growth of firehose and mirror fluctuations in astrophysical plasmas AA Schekochihin, SC Cowley, RM Kulsrud, MS Rosin, T Heinemann, Physical Review Letters 100 (8), 081301
• The trouble with STEAM and why we use it anyway S Mejias, N Thompson, RM Sedas, MS Rosin, E Soep, K Peppler, J Roche, et al., Science Education 105 (2), 209-231
• Multilevel monte carlo simulation of coulomb collisions  MS Rosin, LF Ricketson, AM Dimits, RE Caflisch, BI Cohen, Journal of Computational Physics 274, 140-157
• Beyond the child-langmuir limit, RE Caflisch, MS Rosin, Physical Review E 85 (5), 056408

Mark’s full publication list can be found on his Google Scholar page

Recently Funded Research Projects

• NSF, Co-Design for Climate Justice: Youth Expression through Science Rich Public Art, Announcement, Principal Investigator, #2415840, 2024, $2 million.
• NSF, Exploring Transdisciplinary Approaches to STEM Teaching and Learning, Project Page, Principal Investigator, #2005608, 2022, $300K
• NSF, Data Literacy with, for, and by Youth, Project Page, Co-Principal Investigator, #2005608, 2020, $300K
• Simons Foundation, Guerilla Science, Principal Investigator, #624962, 2020, $285K
• NSF, Research and Development on Understanding STEM Identity Using Live Cultural Experiences, Project Page, Principal Investigator, #2043718, 2016, $1.13 million
• Simons Foundation, Guerilla Science, Principal Investigator, #1612719, 2016, $1.25 million