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Heather R. Mineart, MBA

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.
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
Brad Carson

Brad Carson

Title/Position
Senior Systems Administrator
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Andrew Carton

Andrew J. Carton

Title/Position
Aerospace Electrical Design Engineer
Joyce Chrisinger

Joyce Chrisinger

Title/Position
Graphic Specialist
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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
Jeff Dolan

Jeff Dolan

Title/Position
Principal Engineer
Dolan is the instrument systems engineer for the TRACERS project. He served as the lead system engineer for the design, delivery, and assembly of electric and magnetic field instruments flown on the NASA sponsored Van Allen Probe spacecraft.
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Richard Dvorsky

Title/Position
Aerospace Principal Engineer
Mechanical Engineer
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Mike A. Estenson

Title/Position
Research Design Engineering Manager
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Jeremy B. Faden

Title/Position
Application Developer
Jeremy provides software for data analysis and visualization, supporting ad-hoc studies and long-lived systems.
Dan Gengler

Dan Gengler

Title/Position
Facilities Coordinator
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Larry J. Granroth

Title/Position
Systems Architect
Larry's specialty is research computing support, with over 40 years of experience with the world's foremost radio and plasma wave research group founded by Prof Donald Gurnett.
Joseph  Groene

Joseph Groene

Title/Position
Application Developer
Christian Hansen

Christian Hansen

Title/Position
Aerospace Project Engineer (Mechanical)
Christian is a mechanical engineer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa and has been supporting various spaceflight projects since 2018.
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.
Elizabeth Healy

Elizabeth Healy

Title/Position
Academic Advisor
Garret Hinson

Garret C. Hinson

Title/Position
Aerospace Quality Engineer
Samuel Hisel

Samuel Hisel

Title/Position
Aerospace Design Engineer
Electrical Engineer
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.
Cyerra Hutchins

Cyerra Hutchins

Title/Position
Academic Program Management Associate
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Griffin Idleman

Title/Position
Windows System Administrator
Masafumi Imai

Masafumi Imai

Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
F D Ingram

F D Ingram

Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
Kathy Kurth

Kathy Kurth

Title/Position
Secretary
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.
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Matt Larson

Title/Position
Administrative Services Coordinator
Amanda Lasko

Amanda Lasko

Title/Position
Aerospace Project Engineer
Misty Lyon

Misty Lyon

Title/Position
Assistant to the Departmental Executive Officer
Gabriel Martin

Gabriel Martin

Title/Position
Administrative Services Coordinator
Gabe comes to the university after eight years working in affordable housing with Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity. Gabe is excited to put his eclectic experience, skills, and interests to use on the TRACERS project in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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
Matt Miller

Matthew C. Miller

Title/Position
Engineering Coordinator
Matt is an Engineering Coordinator working in the University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Machine Shop.  He has worked in the machine shop a total of 10 years starting in 2009.
Michael Miller

Michael Miller

Title/Position
Design Engineer
Anthony Moeller

Anthony Moeller, PhD

Title/Position
Laboratory Coordinator
Katherine J. Morris

Katherine J. Morris

Title/Position
Aerospace 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.
Chris Piker

Chris Piker

Title/Position
Senior Database Administrator
Chris is primarily a server software developer, though he attends to public data archiving, relational database development, system administration, and adjacent areas as needed to assist space physics researchers.
Carol A. Preston

Carol A. Preston

Title/Position
Senior Accountant
Carol has been in the Department of Physics and Astronomy for the past 15 years, working primarily with the Craig Kletzing and David Miles research groups.
Marcia Rogers

Marcia Rogers

Title/Position
Research Support Manager
Ianos Schmidt

Ianos Schmidt

Title/Position
Senior Engineering Associate
Sercan Sen

Sercan Sen

Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
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Andrea Shaevitz

Title/Position
Senior Financial Analyst
David Sheets

David Sheets

Title/Position
Principal Engineer
David is an engineer with both electrical/software design and systems engineering experience. He is currently working as the systems engineer for the TRACERS ACE instrument and cognizant for several of the subsystems thereof.