NYU PhD Physics and Math Tutor

Dan O.

My educational background is in mathematics and physics having received by bachelor's in both subjects in 2015 from the University of Chicago, my masters in theoretical physics from NYU in 2019 and my PhD in theoretical physics from NYU in 2021. I have been tutoring and teaching math and physics for the past 10 years beginning in the last year or two of my undergraduate days, then throughout graduate school and finally, over the last 3 years as a side job. Not only did I tutor throughout that time but I also served as a teaching assistant for several undergraduate mathematics and physics courses (and even a few graduate ones).

I have tutored a wide range of students in terms of age range, ability and subject area. For a few examples, I tutored 5th grade twins preparing for the mathematics curriculum at a private school in Chicago, a girl preparing for 9th grade geometry over the summer, an undergraduate struggling with her quantum chemistry course, and even a retired heart surgeon wanting to learn general relativity in his spare time. These are disparate examples but I have taught everything in between and could fill pages and pages with different examples. I have worked for a private tutoring company, Cambridge Coaching since 2017 and still tutor with them but I am looking for more opportunities.

I believe in understanding each student's learning style and catering to it to meet the student where they are and then draw them into a deeper understanding. I try to build the student's confidence to bring them to the point where they are solving a problem on their own with minimal handholding.