Dissertation Title: Measuring the Sources and Acceleration Mechanisms of Suprathermal Heavy Ions in Stream Interaction Regions Near 1 AU Dissertation Advisor: Mihir Desai Fellowships and Recognitions: University of Iowa Postdoctoral Excellence Award - 2021 National Science Foundation Atmosphere and Geospace Postdoctoral Research Fellow Graduation Date: Summer 2018 Post-Doctoral Fellowship: University of IowaAward: National Science Foundation CAREER Award Current Position: Assistant Professor of Physics at Montana State University Research Areas: Rachael studies energetic particles, originating from the Sun, in both the interplanetary medium and planetary magnetospheres. She is particularly interested in the acceleration and transport of ions associated with solar [...]

Guy Grubbs Dissertation Title: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling During Active Aurora Dissertation Advisor: Marilia Samara and Jörg-Micha Jahn Fellowships and Recognitions: NASA Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2019 Current Position: Southwest Research Institute - Research Engineer Research Areas: Currently leading development and firmware programming for instruments used to observe ions and electrons in the interstellar medium.

Emmanuel Grotheer Thesis Title: HEMO - The Hermean Exosphere Model of Oxygen: A Comprehensive Model for Interpreting Data from the MESSENGER and BepiColombo Missions to Mercury Thesis Advisor: Stefano Livi Current Position and Research Areas: Emmanuel is currently at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. At ESTEC he is currently working on the Venus Express Atmospheric Drag Experiment and continues his research on expanding HEMO to other planetary bodies.

Kevin Genestreti Thesis Title: Spatial characteristics of magnetotail reconnection Thesis Advisor: Stephen Fuselier and Jerry Goldstein Current Position and Research Areas: After graduating, Kevin was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Space Science at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz, Austria. Kevin was awarded an open-ended institute grant, and his duties involve the publication of MMS science. Currently, Kevin is analyzing micro-scale energy transfer that occurs at the dayside boundary of the Earth’s magnetosphere, cold plasma interactions with the dayside reconnection site, and large-scale coupling between the inner magnetosphere and magnetotail reconnection site. Kevin’s research will shed light [...]

Austin Egert Thesis Title: Applications Of The Jupiter Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model: A Case Study of Auroral Electron Energy DepositionThesis Advisor: Hunter WaiteFellowships and Recognitions:2021, Principal Investigator for an Internal Research and Development (IR&D) project: High-Latitude Ionospheric D-Region Improvements2021, Panelist for the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program application review2019, Advisor to an undergraduate summer intern conducting computational data extraction2018 – present, Subject matter expert for ionogram scaling and feature identification2016 – present, Workforce morale booster inspiring laughter and pizzaGraduation Date: Fall 2016Current Position: Space Dynamics Laboratory - Scientific Programmer (Scientist III)Research Areas:Over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) modelingTerrestrial ionosphere modelingPolar ionospheric [...]

Eric Delmonico Thesis Title: Extending TWINS Composition Analysis of Oxygen and Hydrogen Thesis Advisor: Phil Valek Graduation Date: Summer 2015 Current Position: Boeing – Instrumentation Engineer: Lead Integrator of instrumentation on the Space Launch System Core Stage and Exploration Upper Stage Research Areas: Enhanced research by collecting experimental data and modeling results. Developed complex programs in IDL for in-depth data analysis and statistical modeling. Lead experimental research on mass spectrometry in space instrumentation for global imaging and presented results. Produced algorithms to be used for big data structures sent from in-flight space instruments. Simulated velocity distributions of [...]

Janie De La Rosa Thesis Title: Interpreting UV/Optical Type IIn Supernova Light Curves Using a Simple Modeling Approach Thesis Advisor: Pete Roming Current Position and Research Areas: Lecturer at Texas State University

George Clark Dissertation Title: Detailed Responses in the Juno JADE-E Sensor and Electron Dynamics in Saturn’s Magnetosphere Dissertation Advisor: Frederic Allegrini Graduation Date: Summer 2014 Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Current Position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Research Areas: The physics of magnetospheric and auroral plasma phenomena in the magnetospheres of the outer solar system. He specializes in the analysis and interpretations of spacecraft data from missions such as Juno, Cassini and Galileo and many more. One of his recent and more notable discoveries is the presence of mega-volt electric potentials over Jupiter’s [...]

Jef Broll Dissertation Title: Ion Dynamics at Earth’s Bow Shock and Magnetopause Fellowships and Recognitions: Funded proposal (as Science PI), NASA H-SR 2019: Refining predictions of reconnection X-lines at Earth's magnetopause Chick Keller Postdoctoral Fellowship, LANL: Positron-Emission Tracing of Magnetotail Evolution Runner-up, Boston Postdoc Association Halloween costume contest, 2019 Graduation Date: Spring 2018 Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Boston University – Center for Space Physics, Chick Keller Postdoctoral Fellow, LANL Current Position: Scientist in Space Science and Applications Group (ISR-1), Intelligence and Space Research Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Areas: Radiation belt modeling and mediation, data/model comparison, and mission [...]

Thomas Broiles Dissertation Title: The Three Dimensional Structure of Corotating Interaction Regions and Modeling of the Heavy Ion Sensor Dissertation Advisor: Mihir Desai Graduation Date: Spring 2013 Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Southwest Research Institute Current Position: Intel Corporation Research Areas: Modeling lithography processes