Arya Afshari

Arya Afshari, PhD

Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
Scott Bounds

Scott Bounds, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Research Scientist
Engineer
Kerem Cankocak

Kerem Cankocak

Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
Andrew Carton

Andrew J. Carton

Title/Position
Aerospace Electrical Design Engineer
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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.
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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

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

Paul Debbins

Title/Position
E & A Project Specialist
DHartley

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

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

Masafumi Imai

Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
F D Ingram

F D Ingram

Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
Bill Kurth

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

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.
D. John Menietti

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

Alexi Mestvirishvil

Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
Aldo Penzo

Aldo Penzo

Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
Jolene Pickett

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

Sercan Sen

Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer