Ugur Akgun, Ph.D.

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.

Alexei Bazavov, Ph.D.

David Berman, Ph.D.

David H. Berman is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa.

Burak Bilki, Ph.D.

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

Rachael Filwett, Ph.D.

Rachael’s research interests are in observational space physics. She is particularly interested in high energy ions and how they are accelerated and transported from the near-Sun environment to, and through, planetary magnetospheres.

Philip Kurian, Ph.D.

Philip Kurian is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa.

James Wetzel, Ph.D.

Wetzel received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2014, where he develops R&D programs for Professor Yasar Onel. He was an visiting assistant professor of physics at Augustana College and is an adjunct assistant professor of physics at Coe College where he teaches its only Astronomy course and lab. His research interests include next generation radiation tolerant calorimetry.

Taylan Yetkin, Ph.D.

Taylan Yetkin is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa.