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Andrew Laeuger '19
Andrew Laeuger '19 graduated from Brookfield Academy just four years ago and has already put together an impressive resume that has led him to researching how our universe operates.
In June 2023, Andrew graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with majors in physics, math, and Northwestern’s intensive Integrated Science Program. As a student at Northwestern, Andrew worked in an experimental physics research group, levitating microscopic particles in powerful laser beams and using those particles to probe our understanding of gravity at a fundamental level.
Andrew's research experience helped him earn two summer research internships – one at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, and the other at Caltech. There, Andrew worked alongside members of the Nobel Prize-winning Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory collaboration. Outside his academic work, Andrew served as President of Northwestern’s Outdoor Club, tutored students in the Integrated Science Program, and played the violin in Northwestern’s Philharmonia orchestra.
Andrew is now pursuing his PhD in Physics at Caltech, studying how detections of ripples in the very fabric of space-time itself might elucidate the inner workings of our universe.
