People

Aldo Penzo

Aldo Penzo

Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
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Daniel Pette

Title/Position
Graduate Student
Dan is currently employed as an aerospace engineer while he pursues a PhD here at Iowa, part-time. He has lived in four states and enjoys weightlifting, hiking, road trips, craft beer, and classic literature.
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.
Wayne Polyzou

Wayne N. Polyzou, PhD

Title/Position
Professor
Wayne N. Polyzou is a Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa. His research interests include theoretical nuclear physics and mathematical physics.
Posligua

Jonatan Posligua

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Jonatan is a first-year physics graduate student from Guayaquil, Ecuador. He came to the University of Iowa in 2017 to undertake his undergraduate studies and graduated with a Bachelor in Sciences in Astronomy and Physics in May of 2021.
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Brendan Powers

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Mohit Pradhan

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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.
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John P. Prineas, PhD

John is an experimentalist whose research is focused on properties of semiconductor materials using nanostructuring to achieve unique optical and electrical characteristics and to advance state-of-the-art applications such as sensing (environmental, defense) and quantum information.
Craig Pryor

Craig E. Pryor, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Craig Pryor is an Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa. His research interests include theoretical condensed matter.
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Tharnier Puel De Oliveira, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Scholar
Dr. Tharnier O. Puel's interests are in theoretical solid state physics. He studied low-temperature physics in the subject of topological properties of matter. In the last years, he contributed to advances in non-equilibrium spin systems at zero temperature.
Quaid, Salvatore

Salvatore Quaid

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor
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Justin Riggs

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Vincent Rodgers

Vincent G.J. Rodgers, PhD

Title/Position
Professor
Vincent G. J. Rodgers is a Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa. His research interests include theoretical particle physics and string theory.
Marcia Rogers

Marcia Rogers

Title/Position
Research Support Manager
Saleh, Anas

Anas Saleh

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Rhyan Sawyer, PhD

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Ianos Schmidt

Ianos Schmidt

Title/Position
Senior Engineering Associate
Jack Scudder

Jack Scudder, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Jack D. Scudder is a Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa. His research interests include space plasma physics.
Sercan Sen

Sercan Sen

Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer
Senseman, Blake

Blake Senseman

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Andrea Shaevitz

Title/Position
Senior Financial Analyst
HWShen

Han-Wen Shen, PhD

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Han-Wen is interested in conducting space physics research with satellite and ground-based observations. His current research focuses on exploring the plasma dynamics around the Lunar environment.
Shi

Yueguang Shi, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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John Silva

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Joe Sink, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Joe Sink is working with Dr. Craig Pryor and is interested in modeling the electronic properties of novel Solid-State devices using theoretical models such as Tight-Binding and DFT.
Frederick Skiff

Frederick N. Skiff, PhD

Frederick N. Skiff is a Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Iowa. His research interests include laser spectroscopy and plasma physics.
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Steven Spangler, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Steven R. Spangler's research interests include radio astronomy, plasma astrophysics, galactic interstellar medium, solar corona and solar wind, and basic plasma physics.