Bennett A Maruca

Physics & Astronomy

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Bennett A Maruca

Associate Professor

bmaruca@udel.edu

Office: 272 Sharp Lab

Lab Location: 315 ISE Lab

Biography

BS in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University (2006); BS in Mathematical Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University (2006); AM in Astronomy from Harvard University (2008); PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Harvard University (2012); Postdoctoral Fellow as the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (2012-2015); joined UD/DPA in 2016

Research

Solar wind, space plasmas, kinetic microinstabilities, Coulomb collisions, space mission development, high-altitude balloons, sounding rockets, CubeSats, space instrumentation, Faraday cups, Langmuir probes

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