People

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.

Brendan Powers
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Mohit Pradhan
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant

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.

John P. Prineas, PhD
Title/Position
Professor
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 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.

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.

Salvatore Quaid
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor

Justin Riggs
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant

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
Title/Position
Research Support Manager

Anas Saleh
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Rhyan Sawyer, PhD
Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Ianos Schmidt
Title/Position
Senior Engineering Associate

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
Title/Position
Research Scientist
Engineer

Blake Senseman
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Andrea Shaevitz
Title/Position
Senior Financial Analyst

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.
Yueguang Shi, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar

John Silva
Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant

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 N. Skiff, PhD
Title/Position
Professor
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.
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.

Kevin Steele
Title/Position
Application Programmer
Analyst

Kory Stiffler, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction
Kory Stiffler is a theoretical physicist with research interests in supersymmetry, black hole physics, cosmology, and string theory.

Dale Stille
Title/Position
Instructional Services Specialist
Dale has been with the University and the Department of Physics and Astronomy as the Instructional Resource Specialist for 35 years.

John Sunderland, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Director, PET Imaging Center
John J. Sunderland is Professor of Radiology in the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Iowa, and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Dustin Swarm, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Dustin Swarm is interested in high energy astrophysics and the application of machine learning in astronomy. He is currently working with Prof. Casey DeRoo studying X-ray sources in the Galactic center found using an outlier detection algorithm.
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