Josh Milstein

On this episode of VIEW to the U podcast, we continue this season of “Adventures in Research” with Professor Josh Milstein from the Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences at UofT Mississauga and in the Department of Physics at UofT St. George. Josh has a couple of stories to tell about his time in academia, and we also talk about podcasts he’s listening to, books he’s reading, and how the The Big Bang Theory – the TV show, not the actual theory – helped Josh’s mom realize that her son might have a future in science. Prior to coming to UTM, Josh completed his PhD at University of Colorado at Boulder in 2004. He has held a number of prestigious appointments including as a Royal Society Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2004-06, a Sloan-Swartz Research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology from 2006-08, and he was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 2008-11. Josh Milstein joined the faculty at UTM/UofT in 2011. Resources - A full transcript of the interview is available at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/shared/JM-interview-transcribed%2COct.2020.pdf. - See Professor Milstein's website for more information about his research, https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/milsteinlab/. - The books he mentioned are Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, https://bit.ly/3lQqTEV, and Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen, https://bit.ly/31ciHqy. - The podcasts he mentioned are the following: Who we Are, https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2020/09/who-we-are-podcast Reply All, https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all Ezra Klein Show, https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast.