Research Group
Current Students
- Mitchell Indek
- Alexander Cushen
Former Students
- Changkun Li (2018 – 2023)
- CLaSP Ph.D. student working on modeling kinetic effects in Mercury’s magnetosphere
- Now working at Google
- Austin Glass (2017 – 2022)
- CLaSP Ph.D. student working on combining MESSENGER observations with numerical modeling to understand plasma phenomena in Mercury’s magnetosphere
- Now working at Postdoc at the Univ. of Michigan
- Camilla Harris (2016 – 2021)
- CLaSP Ph.D. student working on modeling the plasma and magnetic environment of Jupiter’s moon, Europa
- Now working as a NASA NPP Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Yash Sarkango (2016 – 2021)
- CLaSP Ph.D. student working on global MHD simulations of Jupiter’s magnetosphere
- Now working as Postdoc at Princeton University
- Kyle Webster
- CLaSP Undergraduate and M-ENG student
- Now a Ph.D student in the EPSS department at UCLA
- Hongyang Zhou (2015 – 2020)
- CLaSP Ph.D. student working on developing global MHD-EPIC model and applying it to Ganymede’s magnetosphere
- Now working as Postdoc at the University of Helsinki in Finland
- Abigail Azari (2015 – 2020)
- CLaSP Ph.D. student working on analyzing and modeling injection events observed in Saturn’s magnetosphere
- Now working as Postdoc at the Space Science Laboratory at UC Berkeley
- GangKai Poh (2012 – 2017)
- CLaSP Ph.D. student with dissertation work on physical processes in Mercury’s magnetosphere (Co-advised with Prof. James Slavin)
- Now working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- James Ullett (Summer 2015)
- Visiting undergraduate student from the Case Western Reserve University
- Cheng Zhen (Summer 2014)
- Visiting undergraduate student from the University of Science and Technology of China
- Molly Williams (Summer 2013)
- NSF REU student from the Eastern Kentucky University
- Now a Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland