People

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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.
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James Corona

Title/Position
Graduate Research and 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.
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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.
Fernando Cruz Aguirre, Ph.D.

Fernando Cruz Aguirre, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Fernando Cruz Aguirre is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar shared between the Hoadley UV Space Lab (HUSL) and the DeRoo Research Group.
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Lillian Daneshmand

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Laksha Pradip Das

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Sudipta Das, PhD

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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
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Casey DeRoo, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Casey DeRoo studies the UV/X-ray sky and the instrumentation needed to make effective astronomical measurements at these wavelengths.
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Andrew Dewald

Title/Position
Graduate Student
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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Joshua Doucette

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
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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.
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Cecilia Fasano

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Student Advisory Committee Member
Graduate Student Mentor
Cecilia Fasano’s research interests lie at the intersection of nanofabrication, technology development, and astrophysics.
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David Fehr

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Student Advisory Committee Member
David Fehr is interested in condensed matter theory research and currently works with Dr. Flatté, studying the theory of spin coherence of molecules with nanoscale confinement.
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Alberto Felix

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Connor Feltman, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Scholar
Connor Feltman works with Dr. Scott Bounds, researching Space Plasma as pertaining to auroral phenomena. He engages in testing hardware and processing data for rocket missions launched into the northern hemisphere to observe the connection between auroral events, their composite particles and Earth's magnetic field.
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Matthew G. Finley, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Matthew Finley is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Miles Research Lab. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iowa in 2021.
Michael Flatté

Michael E. Flatté, PhD

Title/Position
Professor
Michael E. Flatté is a Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa. His research interests include condensed-matter theory, materials theory, quantum coherent systems and quantum information.
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Thomas Folland, PhD

Prof. Folland works on infrared nanophotonics and quantum materials research, from fundamental properties to device applications. In his lab students measure and understand the properties of exotic materials allowing him to design better infrared light detectors and emitters.
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Tyler Ford

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Jacob Fruchtman

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Jacob Fruchtman is interested in studying the Martian Magentosphere. He is currently working with Professor Jasper Halekas on a project analyzing the MAVEN spacecraft's data to characterize the Martian Bow Shock to find how it varies by season.
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Gavin Frueh

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Hai Fu

Hai Fu, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Hai Fu received his BS in Astronomy from Nanjing University and his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His research is in the field of galaxy formation and evolution, with current observational projects on the impact of galaxy mergers, the evolution of galactic rotation, and gas accretion flows connecting the cosmic web and dusty starburst galaxies.
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Chase Fuller

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Chase Fuller has research interests in high energy astrophysics and galactic structure, with current activities focused on X-ray emitting astrophysical plasmas.
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Diksha Garg, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Diksha Garg is interested in the field of particle physics. She is currently working with Dr. Mary Hall Reno on a project to determine tau particle's polarization which are produced from the high energy cosmic neutrinos skimming through the earth.
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Kenneth G. Gayley, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Astronomy Graduate Advisor
Ken studies the winds of massive stars, with emphasis on how they become structured and generate shocks, X-rays, and polarization.