As a Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Michelle teaches introductory physics and a Pedagogy Class aimed at Physics Mentors. She manages the Physics Education group that focuses on the Introductory classes and Online Education, and conducts physics education research. Working with other Digital Learning Lab members, she works on developing and running online classes. In 2015, she received her Ph.D. in physics from MIT working on photovoltaics and density functional theory.

Website: https://physics.mit.edu/physics-directory/michelle-tomasik/