People
Mary Hall Reno, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Departmental Chair
Professor
Reno's research is in theoretical particle physics with a focus on neutrino interactions and detection, for which she was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Funded by the Department of Energy and NASA grants, her research exploits the connections between measurements in particle accelerator experiments and calculations of high energy interactions of cosmic rays and cosmic neutrinos.
Heather R. Mineart, M.B.A.
Title/Position
Departmental Administrator
Heather has been with the University of Iowa (UI) for 23 years and has worked in the Department of Physics & Astronomy for the last 20 years, currently serving as Departmental Administrator. She holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Business Administration and Human Resource Management from Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids Iowa. She has served in various University and Collegiate committees/councils across campus including President of UI Staff Council, the Strategic Plans Faculty and Staff Success Development Team and various high level leadership searches.
Arya Afshari, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist/Engineer
Ugur Akgun, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Adjunct Associate Professor
Ugur Akgun is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the UI and a is an Associate Professor at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He specializes in advanced glasses for high energy physics detectors, as well as computational biophysics and detector simulations for the medical field. He develops radiation resistant glasses which the Iowa HEP group tests and characterizes in test-beam experiments.
Mohammed Alshalabi
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
David R. Andersen, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Professor
David Andersen is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Iowa and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Zachary Andersen
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Cole Armstrong
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Muhammad is interested in exploring different field theoretic models with the current NISQ era quantum machines. He is also currently working on exploring AdS-CFT correspondence in the lattice setting. Previously he worked on gauge theoretic formulation of gravity in two dimension and explored dynamical triangulation of gravity in four spacetime dimensions.
Halit Bagdu
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ramachandra Bangari
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Ramachandra Bangari is interested in Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science. He is currently working with Dr. Thomas Folland on computational simulation and experimental characterization of optical constants in thin films, 2-D materials, and semiconductors. He obtained Bachelor's and Master's in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science.
Alexei Bazavov, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
David Berman, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Adjunct Associate Professor
David H. Berman is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa.
Burak Bilki, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Burak Bilki received his Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Iowa before becoming spokesperson for the T-1041 CMS upgrade program at Fermilab. He is a member of the CALICE collaboration and has contributed significant effort to that program. He also currently holds a position with Beykent University in Istanbul, Turkey. His current work involves the protoDUNE at CERN as well as CMS detector upgrade R&D
Dylan Blend
Title/Position
Graduate Student
Graduate Student Mentor
Graduate College Lulu Merle Johnson Fellowship recipient
Dylan is a recent BS Physics graduate from Texas A&M University. Dylan is from Houston, TX and his current research advisors are Professors Jane Nachtman and Yasar Onel. He will be an experimental particle physicist and I am currently involved in the CMS Outer Tracker Phase II Upgrade and DUNE experiment, Liquid Argon TPC.
Thomas Boggess, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Thomas F. Boggess is a Professor Emeritus in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa.
Robert Broadfoot
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Robert Broadfoot took a non-traditional path to the doctoral program in physics by first obtaining a master’s degree in music performance. He is now performing research in experimental space physics under the mentorship of Dr. David Miles. His research interests include space weather and auroral dynamics.
Denis R. Candido, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Prof. Candido is part of the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics research area at the University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy.
He is currently working with realistic implementations and proposals for hybrid quantum systems that would permit to build quantum computers and quantum devices using condensed matter systems.
Kerem Cankocak
Title/Position
Research Scientist/Engineer
Brad Carson
Title/Position
Senior Systems Administrator
Andrew J. Carton
Title/Position
Aerospace Electrical Design Engineer
Lead Electrical, Test and GSE. Systems Engineer (Magnetic Search Coil), Electrical Design Engineer.
Projects: Helped design space instrumentation for the Magnetic Search Coil on TRACERS and VIPER sounding rocket, and PLASMIC instrument for the LAMP sounding rocket. Also designed the control electronics for Iowa's Thermovacuum chamber.
Sarah Choate
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ju-Yeol Choi
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ivar W. Christopher
Title/Position
Research Specialist
Ivar has extensive experience in analyzing large, complex data sets, primarily in the space plasma wave research field, as well as in implementing operations (planning and commanding) for the plasma wave instrument on the Cluster spacecraft and will be doing similar work for the TRACERS mission. He also is experienced in processing and archiving of science data for multiple spacecraft missions.
Michael Connolly
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate College Recruitment Fellow
Graduate Student Advisory Committee Member
Graduate Student Mentor
Michael Connelly is interested in the development of a harmonious understanding of nature between the very large and very small scale systems and the potential applications between. He currently works with Dr. Vincent G. J. Rodgers studying Standard Model fermions in Thomas-Whitehead Gravity.
James Corona
Title/Position
Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant
James Corona is interested in conducting research in the areas of quantum computation and quantum information theory. He is currently working with Dr. Yannick Meurice to simulate quantum systems in various models such as the Abelian Higgs model. He plans to develop new methods for using quantum computers to study systems which are unfeasible for simulation on classical computers.
Danielle Crawford
Title/Position
Senior Systems Administrator
Dani is Science Operations Center (SOC) manager for TRACERS and was SOC Manager for EMFISIS instrument on Van Allen Probes, launched 2012.
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