Erik Josberger graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2012. He joined the Rolandi group in 2012 and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include protonic device design and the development of novel applications for protonic systems.

Erik was awarded the Astronaut Scholarship in 2010 and 2011 for his work in designing a low-temperature AFM for s-SNOM in collaboration with Markus Raschke, and received an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP in 2013.