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Frederick Bruhweiler Research Professor-in-Residence CAS | Physics

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHFrederick C. Bruhweiler Physicist-in-Residence& Research Professor Dept. of PhysicsÂ鶹´«Ã½ (AU)E-mail: bruhweil@american.edu RECENT RESEARCH, ACADEMIC & ADMINISTRATIVE P…

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Vincent Kofman Research Assistant Professor CAS | Physics

Vincent Kofman has a Master’s degree in organic geochemistry from the Utrecht University (the Netherlands). His thesis project involved studying the climatic evolution of the Baltic Sea using molecula…

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Pankaj Kumar Research Associate Professor CAS | Physics

Dr. Pankaj Kumar is a Research Associate Professor at AU. He joined AU in April 2020 as a Research Assistant Professor. Dr. Kumar Performs his research activities in the Space Weather laboratory (code…

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Bruce McCollum Physicist In Residence CAS | Other Operations and Administration

My career has been as a staff scientist on the operations staff of several space observatories (IUE, Spitzer, and WISE). My research has consisted of observational astronomy. I have been the principal…

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Adam McKay Adjunct Assistant Professor CAS | Physics

Comets consist of primitive material that has experienced little processing since the formation of the Solar System. This makes comets important tools for understanding the composition and environment…

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Kim Tolbert Research Scientist-in-Residence CAS | Physics

Kim Tolbert has been designing, implementing, maintaining, and documenting data analysis software for over 30 years. She made key contributions to the SMM/HXRBS, CGRO/BATSE, and RHESSI data analysis e…

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