William Matthaeus

William Matthaeus

Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics & Astronomy
 

223 Sharp 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, spac​​e plasmas, kinetic microinstabilities, Coulomb collisions, space mission development, high-altitude balloons, sounding rockets, CubeSats, space instrumentation, Faraday cups, Langmuir probes