People

Principal Investigator

Raymond Shaw, Ph.D. – Professor of Physics

Current Members

Nithin Allwayin – Doctoral Student, Applied Physics – Holographic measurements of cloud properties

Corey Packard – Doctoral Student, Atmospheric Sciences – Radiative transfer in turbulent clouds

Prasanth Prabhakaran – Postdoctoral Scientist – Cloud chamber studies

Elise Rosky – Doctoral Student, Physics – Ice nucleation

Subin Thomas – Doctoral Student, Atmospheric Sciences – Cloud chamber turbulence and modeling

Alumni

Michael Adler – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2014 – Turbulent convection with phase changes

Matthew Beals – Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, 2013 – Position after graduation: Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Dissertation: “Investigations of cloud microphysical response to mixing using digital holography.” While at MTU, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow.

Nathan Black – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2003

Nick Black – M.S. Physics, 2013 – Quadrupole particle trap with thermodynamic control

Kamal Kant Chandrakar – Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, 2019 – Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dissertation: “Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Turbulent Clouds: A Combined Cloud Chamber and Theoretical Study.” While at MTU, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow.

Kelken Chang – Postdoctoral Scientist, Physics (Ph.D. Cornell University 2011) – Turbulence-cloud interactions and Rayleigh-Benard convection

Joe Charnawskas – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2014 – Ice nucleation

Sze Kwan Cheah – B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2004

David Ciochetto – Research Engineer – Cloud chamber studies

Neel Desai – Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, Senior Research Project, 2018 – Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate and Process Modeling, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dissertation: “Investigation of Microphysical Properties of Laboratory and Atmospheric Clouds Using Digital In-Line Holography.” 

Adam Durant – M.S. Geology, 2005, Ph.D. Geology, 2008 – Currently Senior Scientist at Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Dissertation: “On Water in Volcanic Clouds”

Chee Sheng Fong – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2005 – Currently at SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Physics

Michael Ftaclas – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2004

Jacob Fugal – Ph.D. Engineering Physics, 2007 – Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dissertation: “In-situ Measurement and Characterization of Cloud Particles with Digital In-line Holography.” While at MTU, NSF Graduate Research Fellow and NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow.

Susanne Glienke – Visiting Ph.D Student from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz – Airborne holographic measurements of cloud properties

Colin Gurganus – Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, 2014 – Position after graduation: Postdoc at SPEC, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado). Dissertation: “Investigating the role of the contact line in heterogeneous nucleation with high speed imaging.” While at MTU, DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellow.

Nelly Iceta – Internship from Ecole Normale Supérior de Lyon, 2011

Gabriel Johnson – Undergraduate Student Intern, 2005 & 2009

Vincent Jones – B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2003

Peter Kiefer – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2002 – Currently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Jedediah Knight – Summer Undergraduate Intern, 2012 & 2013

Austin Kuzmic – B.S. Computer Systems Science, 2010 – Currently at GS Engineering

Daniel Lanterman – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2001

Michael Larsen – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2001 – Currently Assistant Professor in Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at College of Charleston

Adam Laxo – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2015

Jiang Lu – Ph.D. Physics, 2010 – Position after graduation: Research Scientist, Michigan Technological University. Dissertation: “Clustering of Settling Charged Particles in Turbulence: Theory and Experiments”

Ben Malec – Undergraduate Student, Physics, Summer Student & Senior Research Project, 2011-2013

Dennis Niedermeier – Postdoctoral Scientist (Ph.D. Leipzig University 2013) – Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation – Cloud chamber studies and ice nucleation

Mi Youshi – M.S. Physics, 2004 – Currently teacher in Chicago

Daniel Miller – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2011 – Currently at UMBC

Freja (formerly H.) Nordsiek – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2010 – Currently at University of Maryland

Thomas Page – Undergraduate Summer Intern, 2016

Tyler Plamondon – B. S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2013 – Currently at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

John Puckett – Summer Undergraduate Student, 2005, NMU Physics

Eduardo Rodriguez-Feo – M.S. Applied Physics, 2019

Ewe Wei Saw – Ph.D. Physics, 2008 – Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization. Dissertation: “Studies of Spatial Clustering of Inertial Particles in Turbulence”

Aleksandr Sergeyev, M.S. Physics, 2004

James Vopal – B.S. Physics, 2002

Joe Wilm – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2011

Joseph Withers – Summer Undergraduate Intern, 2013

Max Wyman – B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2000

Fan Yang – Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, – Ice nucleation and cloud microphysics

Weidong Yang – Postdoctoral Research Associate