Noah David Finkelstein (born July 1968) is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
He is director of the Colorado Center for STEM Learning, a President’s Teaching Scholar, and a Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador.
His research focuses on physics education and on developing models of context, the scope of which involves students, departments, and institutional scales of transformation.
In 2010, Finkelstein testified to the United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on how to strengthen undergraduate and postgraduate STEM education.