People

Paul Kleiber, PhD
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Paul D. Kleiber is a Professor Emeritus in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa.


William Klink, PhD
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
William H. Klink is a Professor Emeritus in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa
Ohannes Kamer Koseyan
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Ohannes Kamer Koseyan's research interests include experimental data analysis for the decay modes of the Higgs Boson and testing and development of hardware for high energy particle detectors.

Amila Kumara
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Shashikant Kunwar, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Postoctoral Research Fellow/Scholar

Luke Kupari
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Philip Kurian, PhD
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Philip Kurian is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa.

Kathy Kurth
Title/Position
Secretary

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.

Cornelia C. Lang, PhD
Title/Position
Professor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education (CLAS)
Cornelia Lang's research interests focus on understanding the astrophysics at the very center of our Milky Way Galaxy and of other nearby galaxies.

Patrick Langer
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor
Patrick currently is working with Dr. Skiff, researching kinetic wave scattering in plasmas. His aspirations are to contribute substantial research to the field of plasma physics, and to potentially consider teaching as well.

Cori Langfitt
Title/Position
Undergraduate Administrative Services Coordinator

Amanda Lasko
Title/Position
Aerospace Project Engineer

Yogendra Limbu
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant

Karl E. Lonngren, PhD
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Karl E. Lonngren is a Professor Emeritus in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa.

Mehdi (Kian) Maleki Sanukesh
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Kian Maleki is interested in theoretical condensed matter physics. He is working as a research assistant with Prof. Flatté. His current project is about defect-phonon interaction in hBN.

Usha Mallik, PhD
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Usha Mallik passed away on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2024. Known as a distinguished experimental physicist, she worked extensively in CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.

Brady Martin
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Brady Martin is currently conducting research for Dr. Wayne Polyzou in the field of theoretical nuclear physics. His research focuses on the study of many-body nuclear scattering events dominated by cluster reactions with particular interest in the effective interactions between clusters.

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.

Ian Masson
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor

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.

Alexa McKeay
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jodie McLennan
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jacqueline McShan
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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.

Robert Merlino, PhD
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Robert L. Merlino is an Emeritus Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa. His research activities are in experimental plasma physics, where he has concentrated on performing experiments investigating processes of relevance to space plasma physics, and on the physics of dusty plasmas. His research has been funded by the Cottrell Research Corporation, the Office of Naval Research, NASA, NSF and DOE.

Alexi Mestvirishvil
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer

Yannick Meurice, PhD
Title/Position
Professor
Yannick Meurice is a Professor at the University of Iowa. He was a postdoc at CERN and Argonne National Laboratory and a visiting professor at CINVESTAV in Mexico City.

David M. Miles, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor
David M. Miles is an experimental space physicist specializing in the development of next-generation spaceflight magnetic field instruments and particularly miniature instruments for nanosatellites and multi-point measurement constellations.
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