Arya Afshari, PhD
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
Kerem Cankocak
Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
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.
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.
Greyson Davis
Title/Position
Research Associate
Greyson works on the design, implementation, and verification of ground and spaceflight communication systems. He is the communications subsystem lead for Fireball-2, a UV balloon telescope designed to map the circumgalactic medium of galaxies to understand the role it plays in galaxy evolution.
Paul Debbins
Title/Position
E & A Project Specialist
David Hartley, PhD
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
Dave uses in-situ spacecraft observations to study the dynamics of the Earth’s magnetosphere. He uses plasma wave observations from the EMFISIS instrument on NASA’s Van Allen Probes satellite mission, as well as MMS measurements, to study very low frequency (VLF) waves which play a critical role in driving variations in the different particle populations contained within the inner magnetosphere.
George Hospodarsky, PhD
Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
George has over 30 years of experience in the design, testing, calibration, operation, and analysis of scientific data from radio and plasma wave instruments and sensors flown on spacecraft and sounding rockets, including the TRACERS, Galileo, Juno, Cassini, Van Allen Probes, VIPER, Wind and Polar missions.
Masafumi Imai
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
F D Ingram
Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
William Kurth, PhD
Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
Bill is a long-time member of the Radio and Plasma Wave Group at Iowa. He studies radio and plasma waves in planetary magnetospheres, the solar wind, and the interstellar medium.
Daniel McGinnis, PhD
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
Daniel's research area is observational space physics and he studies the formation and evolution of the solar wind.
J. Douglas Menietti, PhD
Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
Dr. Menietti has extensive experience in space plasma data analysis and computation. Recent interests include wave growth analyses using the WHAMP dispersion solver for the space plasma environment.
Alexi Mestvirishvil
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
Aldo Penzo
Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
Jolene Pickett
Title/Position
Researcher
Jolene's research interests lie in the area of space physics, specifically electrostatic solitary waves, auroral kilometric radiation and chorus waves observed in space plasmas.
Sercan Sen
Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer