People

Paul Kleiber

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.
Craig Kletzing

Craig A. Kletzing, PhD

Title/Position
Professor
Prof. Kletzing passed away on Aug. 10, 2023.
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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
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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

Amila Kumara

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Shashikant Kunwar

Shashikant Kunwar, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postoctoral Research Fellow/Scholar
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Luke Kupari

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Philip Kurian

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

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.
Cornelia Lang

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.
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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

Cori Langfitt

Title/Position
Undergraduate Administrative Services Coordinator
Amanda Lasko

Amanda Lasko

Title/Position
Aerospace Project Engineer
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Yogendra Limbu

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Karl E.  Lonngren

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.
Maleki Sanukesh

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

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.
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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

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.
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Ian Masson

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor
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.
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Alexa McKeay

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Jodie McLennan

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Jacqueline McShan

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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.
Robert Merlino

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

Alexi Mestvirishvil

Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Engineer
Yannick Meurice

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 Miles

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.