Crystal Bailey

Crystal Bailey, PhD, is the head of career programs at the American Physical Society (APS). Crystal works on several projects which are geared towards marketing physics and physics career information to high school students, undergraduates, graduate students and physics professionals, such as career events and workshops at APS annual and division meetings, recruitment events at APS annual and division meetings, and APS mentoring programs. Crystal is also director of the APS Gender Inclusive Community, which includes the Conferences for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (CU*IP). She also works closely with the APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development (CCPD), Committee on Minorities (COM) and Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP). Her mission is to promote the integration of meaningful workforce development into physics education, and to broaden awareness of, and interest in, non-academic physics careers.

Before coming to the APS, she did research in nuclear physics at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the area of few-body systems. In 2008, she received the Konopinski Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching from the IU Physics Department. She graduated with her PhD from IU in 2009. She was also elected as an APS Fellow in 2022 for her work in career and educational programs.