frederick skiff

Frederick Skiff, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor
His research interests include laser spectroscopy and plasma physics.
Jorge Berumen Cantu

Jorge Berumen Cantu, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Scholar
Jorge earned his B.S. in Physics from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Monterrey, Mexico. He defended his Ph.D. Kinetic picture of ion acoustic wave reflection using laser-induced fluorescence in July 2018.
Langer, Patrick

Patrick Langer

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Patrick majored in Physics with a minor in Math during his undergraduate career. He currently is working with Dr. Skiff, researching kinetic wave scattering in plasmas. His aspirations are to contribute substantial research to the field of plasma physics, and to potentially consider teaching as well.
McLaughlin-2021

Jacob McLaughlin

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Jacob performs research in experimental plasma sciences, specializing in nonperturbative, laser-based diagnostic techniques. Working with Dr. Skiff, his current focus is wave-particle interactions and kinetic instabilities.

Former Group Members

Lucas Beving

Lucas Beving

Transferred to University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 2021 

Email: lbeving@umich.edu

Lucas is from Ackley, Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Northern Iowa. His research focuses on sheath instabilities. He is also a member of the Baalrud theoretical plasma group. In 2020 he was selected to conduct research at Sandia National Lab as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.

 

Ryan Hood

Ryan Hood

Graduated Ph.D. Student, 2020 Ph.D. Thesis: Study of the Plasma Boundary Using Laser-induced Fluorescence

Email: rthood@sandia.gov

Ryan is from Rutland, Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree in physics and astronomy from the University of Iowa. His research focuses on experimental measurements of sheath physics, including electron and multi-ion species sheaths. He was also a member of the Baalrud theoretical plasma group. After graduating, Ryan joined Sandia National Lab in Livermore as a Postdoctoral Scientist.


       

Feng Chu

Feng Chu

Graduated Ph.D. Student, 2018. Ph.D. Thesis: Validation of a Lagrangian model for laser-induced fluorescence

Email: fchu@lanl.gov

Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VYhuQoIAAAAJ&hl=en

Feng earned his B.S. in Plasma Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, China. His research interests involve experiments and simulations on plasma waves and instabilities, laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) diagnostics of plasmas, and Lagrangian model for LIF measurements of plasma ion temperature and electrostatic waves. He defended his Ph.D. in April 2018. After graduating, Feng joined Don Gurnett's Space Plasma Wave Research Group at the University of Iowa as a Postdoctoral Scientist. In 2020, he moved to Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) to continue his scientific career in Fusion research.

 

sean mattingly

Sean Mattingly

Graduated Ph.D. Student, 2017

Sean Mattingly defended his Ph.D. Thesis Velocity Space Degrees of Freedom of Plasma Fluctuations in 2017. After graduating, Sean became an engineer at Intel.

 

James-Schroeder

James Schroeder

Graduated, Ph.D. Student, 2017. Thesis: Exploring the Alfvén-wave Acceleration of Auroral Electrons in the Laboratory

After graduating, Jim joined Wheaton College as an Assistant Professor of Physics.

Email: jim.schroeder@wheaton.edu Website: https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/james-schroeder/

 

derek_thuecks

Derek Thuecks

Graduated, Ph.D. student, 2009. Thesis:  Laboratory investigations of dispersive Alfvén waves and their role in electron acceleration. He is currently an Associate Professor of Physics and Chair of the Physics Department at Washington College in Maryland.

Ilker Uzun-Kaymak

Ilker Uzun-Kaymak

Graduated Ph.D. Student, 2006. Thesis: "Coherent nonlinear interactions in phase space resolved ion density fluctuations"

 

Ahmed Diallo

Ahmed Diallo

Graduated, Ph.D. Student, 2005

Research Physicist in Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Email: adiallo@pppl.gov Phone: (609) 243-2560

Website: https://www.pppl.gov/people/ahmed-diallo

 

Dereth J. Drake

Dereth Drake

Former Postdoctoral Scholar

Associate Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences at Valdosta State University.

Email: djdrake@valdosta.edu Phone: (229) 249-4852

Yuya Kanemori

Visiting Scientist

Timothy Good

Visiting Scientist

 

Skiff Group Members Summer 2017
Group Members Summer 2017 (From left to right: Feng Chu, Sean Mattingly, Jim Schroeder, Ryan Hood, Jorge Berumen, and Fred Skiff)