People

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.
Powers, Brendan

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.
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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.
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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.
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Kevin Steele

Title/Position
Application Programmer
Analyst
Kory Stiffler

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

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.
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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.
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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.