People

Portrait of Larry J. Granroth

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.
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Philip Griffin

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Joseph  Groene

Joseph Groene

Title/Position
Application Developer
Jasper Halekas

Jasper S. Halekas, PhD

Title/Position
Professor
Jasper Halekas’s research seeks to broaden our understanding of the impact of the Sun and the solar wind on our solar system and its evolution.
Portrait of Kevin Hall

Kevin Hall

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor
Kevin has interests in simulating how exoplanets would look within simulated data from future Direct Imaging missions and determine what characteristics can be extracted from the system.
Portrait of Henry Hammer

Henry Hammer

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Hang

Zheyue Hang

Title/Position
Graduate Student
Zheyue Hang is currently working with Professor Yannick Meurice on the field of quantum computing. She is also interested in mathematical physics and condensed matter.
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.
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Nicholas Harshman

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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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.
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Syed Hassan Abbas Bukhari

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Nathan Helvy

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Shannon Hill

Shannon Hill, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postoctoral Research Fellow/Scholar
Garret Hinson

Garret C. Hinson

Title/Position
Aerospace Quality Engineer
Samuel Hisel

Samuel Hisel

Title/Position
Aerospace Design Engineer
Electrical Engineer
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Michael Hite

Title/Position
Graduate Student
Michael Hite has been at the University of Iowa since Fall 2019. He is working with Yannick Meurice modeling lattice gauge theories on both classical and quantum computers.
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.
Gregory Howes

Gregory G. Howes, PhD

Title/Position
Professor
Gregory G. Howes is a Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa. His research interests include theoretical and computational plasma physics.
Kwangyul Hu

Kwangyul Hu, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Huang

Rui Huang

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Rui Huang is interested in theoretical and computational astrophysics. They are currently working with Professor Greg Howes on a project studying the plasma turbulence theory.
Hutchins, Cyerra

Cyerra Hutchins

Title/Position
Academic Program Management Associate
Portrait of Griffin Idleman

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
Jawad, Muhammad

Muhammad Jawad

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Allison Jaynes

Allison N. Jaynes, PhD

Title/Position
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Allison Jaynes joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 2017 after receiving a PhD from the University of New Hampshire and working as a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Ken Johnson

Kenneth Johnson, PhD

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ken Johnson is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy. His area of interests are undergraduate physics and astronomy instruction and physical sciences education.
jones, olivia

Olivia Jones

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
jaya

Jayasri Joseph, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Before returning to school to conduct research in space physics, Jaya Joseph worked as a research engineer designing various wireless communication systems and receivers for use in radio astronomy at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia.
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Gürkan Karaman

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Gurkan is originally from Turkey and has a BSc degree in Physics from Bogazici University. He is currently doing his research in Electron Irradiation on Particle Accelerator Components.