Frederick Skiff, Ph.D.
Jorge Berumen Cantu, Ph.D.
Patrick Langer
Jacob McLaughlin
Former Group Members
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
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
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
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
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
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
Graduated Ph.D. Student, 2006. Thesis: "Coherent nonlinear interactions in phase space resolved ion density fluctuations"
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 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