{"id":28,"date":"2018-08-15T11:28:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2019-08-30T12:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:45:36","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong class=\"gold\">Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p class=\"sm\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phy.mtu.edu\/faculty\/Shaw.html\"><strong>Raymond Shaw<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. &#8211; Professor of Physics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"sm\">Director of the MTU\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atmos-sci.mtu.edu\/\">Atmospheric Sciences<\/a>\u00a0Ph.D. program (2009-present)<\/li>\n<li class=\"sm\">Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tropos.de\/eng\/\">Institute for Tropospheric Research<\/a><\/em>, Leipzig, Germany (2007-2008)<\/li>\n<li class=\"sm\">Visiting Scientist,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tropos.de\/eng\/\">Institute for Tropospheric Research<\/a>, Leipzig, Germany\u00a0<\/em>(Spring 2005)<\/li>\n<li class=\"sm\">Visiting Professor, Dept. of Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/\">Cornell University<\/a>\u00a0(Fall 2004 and Summer 2006)<\/li>\n<li class=\"sm\">Postdoctoral Fellow,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asp.ucar.edu\/\">Advanced Study Program<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncar.ucar.edu\/\">National Center for Atmospheric Research<\/a>\u00a0(1998-1999)<\/li>\n<li class=\"sm\">Ph.D.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psu.edu\/\">Penn State University<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><strong class=\"gold\">Current Members<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Nithin Allwayin\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Doctoral Student, Applied Physics &#8211; Holographic measurements of cloud properties<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corey Packard <\/strong>&#8211; Doctoral Student, Atmospheric Sciences &#8211; Radiative transfer in turbulent clouds<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prasanth Prabhakaran<\/strong> &#8211; Postdoctoral Scientist &#8211; Cloud chamber studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elise Rosky\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Doctoral Student, Physics &#8211; Ice nucleation<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm\"><strong>Subin Thomas<\/strong> &#8211; Doctoral Student, Atmospheric Sciences &#8211; Cloud chamber turbulence and modeling<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><strong class=\"gold\">Alumni<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"sm\"><strong>Michael Adler\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2014 &#8211; Turbulent convection with phase changes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Matthew Beals<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, 2013 &#8211; Position after graduation: Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Dissertation: <em>&#8220;Investigations of cloud microphysical response to mixing using digital holography.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>While at MTU, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Nathan Black<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2003<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm\"><strong>Nick Black<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; M.S. Physics, 2013 &#8211; Quadrupole particle trap with thermodynamic control<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kamal Kant Chandrakar<\/strong> &#8211; Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, 2019 &#8211; Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dissertation: <em>&#8220;Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Turbulent Clouds: A Combined Cloud Chamber and Theoretical Study.&#8221; <\/em>While at MTU, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm\"><strong>Kelken Chang<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Postdoctoral Scientist, Physics (Ph.D. Cornell University 2011) &#8211; Turbulence-cloud interactions and Rayleigh-Benard convection<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm\"><strong>Joe Charnawskas<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2014 &#8211; Ice nucleation<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Sze Kwan Cheah<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2004<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Ciochetto<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Research Engineer &#8211; Cloud chamber studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neel Desai\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, Senior Research Project, 2018 &#8211; Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate and Process Modeling, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dissertation: <em>&#8220;Investigation of Microphysical Properties of Laboratory and Atmospheric Clouds Using Digital In-Line Holography.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Adam Durant<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; M.S. Geology, 2005, Ph.D. Geology, 2008 &#8211; Currently Senior Scientist at Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Dissertation:\u00a0<em>&#8220;On Water in Volcanic Clouds&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Chee Sheng Fong<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2005 &#8211; Currently at SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Physics<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Michael Ftaclas<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2004<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Jacob Fugal<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Ph.D. Engineering Physics, 2007 &#8211; Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research.\u00a0Dissertation:\u00a0&#8220;<em>In-situ Measurement and Characterization of Cloud Particles with Digital In-line Holography.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0While at MTU, NSF Graduate Research Fellow and NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susanne Glienke<\/strong> &#8211; Visiting Ph.D Student from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz &#8211; Airborne holographic measurements of cloud properties<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Colin Gurganus<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, 2014 &#8211; Position after graduation: Postdoc at SPEC, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado). Dissertation: <em>&#8220;Investigating the role of the contact line in heterogeneous nucleation with high speed imaging.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0While at MTU, DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Nelly Iceta<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Internship from Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rior de Lyon, 2011<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Gabriel Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Undergraduate Student Intern, 2005 &amp; 2009<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Vincent Jones<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2003<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Peter Kiefer<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2002 &#8211; Currently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Jedediah Knight<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Summer Undergraduate Intern, 2012 &amp; 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Austin Kuzmic<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Computer Systems Science, 2010 &#8211; Currently at GS Engineering<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Daniel Lanterman<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2001<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Michael Larsen<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2001 &#8211; Currently Assistant Professor in Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at College of Charleston<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Adam Laxo<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jiang Lu\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Ph.D. Physics, 2010 &#8211; Position after graduation: Research Scientist, Michigan Technological University. Dissertation: <em>&#8220;Clustering of Settling Charged Particles in Turbulence: Theory and Experiments&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Ben Malec<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Undergraduate Student, Physics, Summer Student &amp; Senior Research Project, 2011-2013<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm\"><strong>Dennis Niedermeier<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Postdoctoral Scientist (Ph.D. Leipzig University 2013) &#8211; Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation &#8211; Cloud chamber studies and ice nucleation<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Mi Youshi<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; M.S. Physics, 2004 &#8211; Currently teacher in Chicago<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Daniel Miller<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2011 &#8211; Currently at UMBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Freja (formerly H.) Nordsiek<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2010 &#8211; Currently at University of Maryland<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm\"><strong>Thomas Page<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Undergraduate Summer Intern, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Tyler Plamondon<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B. S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2013 &#8211; Currently at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>John Puckett\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Summer Undergraduate Student, 2005, NMU\u00a0Physics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eduardo Rodriguez-Feo\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; M.S. Applied Physics, 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Ewe Wei Saw<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Ph.D. Physics, 2008 &#8211; Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization.\u00a0Dissertation:\u00a0<em>&#8220;Studies of Spatial Clustering of Inertial Particles in Turbulence&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Aleksandr Sergeyev<\/strong>, M.S. Physics, 2004<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>James Vopal <\/strong>&#8211; B.S. Physics, 2002<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Joe Wilm<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2011<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Joseph Withers<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Summer Undergraduate Intern, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Max Wyman <\/strong>&#8211; B.S. Physics, Senior Research Project, 2000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fan Yang\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, &#8211; Ice nucleation and cloud microphysics<\/p>\n<p class=\"sm\"><strong>Weidong Yang <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator Raymond Shaw, Ph.D. &#8211; Professor of Physics Director of the MTU\u00a0Atmospheric Sciences\u00a0Ph.D. program (2009-present) Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at\u00a0Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany (2007-2008) Visiting Scientist,\u00a0Institute&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}