Joel Corbo is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Colorado Boulder.

His work focuses on implementing and studying mechanisms for improving undergraduate education in STEM departments, with a particular focus on organizational and institutional change; community; and equity, inclusion, and social justice. While at CU, he co-developed the Departmental Action Team (DAT) model and the Departmental Action Leadership Institute (DALI). As a graduate student, he helped to found and lead the Berkeley Compass Project, a student-run organization dedicated to supporting students from marginalized groups in physics, and he currently co-leads the Access Network, a national network of student-centered equity programs inspired by Compass. Before coming to CU, Joel received a bachelor’s degree in physics from MIT and a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley. As a member of the Whaley group at Berkeley, he studied ultracold atomic gases using quantum Monte Carlo simulation techniques.