Alumni

UCI degree recipients who worked in the plasma lab and notes on their careers

Graduate Alumni (Ph.D. and Master’s Degree recipients):

	Dr. Jeffrey Bowles, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,D.C. Dr. Bowles finished his studies of velocity-space ion transport in 1992 and joined the NRL staff. He works on space chamber simulations of auroral plasma processes.
	Mr. Scott Catazariti, SARA, Inc., earned his M.S. (2002) studying anomalous diffusion of test-particle electrons in an electron-beam generated plasma.
		Dr. David Edrich, earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1995. He is an experimental plasma physicist with interests in ion transport, diode laser diagnostics, and electronic instrumentation. Scientific Applications and Research Associates e-mail: dedrich@sara.com

Prof. Tim Good, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania
Prof. Good has pursued plasma LIF experiments since his graduation in 1986. Strong emphasis is given to undergraduate participation in the spectroscopy work since Gettysburg is a four year college.

Dr. David Hill, Physicist, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, California
Dr. Hill finished his doctoral work on laser induced fluorescence in plasmas in 1983. He joined Lawrence Livermore's magnetic fusion energy program. He has been collaborating for many years with the General Atomics fusion energy project, with recent interests in radiative power balance measurements in diverted plasmas.

Prof. Rezwanul Karim, Jackson State University, Mississippi
Following his doctoral interests in plasma turbulence and chaos Prof. Karim has developed interests in plasma density diagnostics based on helium beams since his degree in 1988.

Dr. Robert Koslover, Physicist, SARA, Inc., California Upon receiving his degree in 1987 studying ion conic formation related to suprauroral observations and optical tomography techniques, Dr. Koslover went to Albuquerque where he worked on pulsed power plasma devices producing high power microwaves. He developed data acquisition software for pulsed power experiments and went on to science project management for the Air Force. Presently he works at Scientific Applications and Research Associates (www.sara.com) as an experimental physicist.

Dr. Alan Lang, Physicist, Allergan Pharmaceuticals, California
Dr. Lang is working on medical optics. Following his Ph.D. in 1982 he joined TRW and worked on plasma isotope separation processes before joining Allergan.

Reverend Dr. Mason Okubo, Immanuel First Lutheran Church. Rev. Okubo finished his work on plasma ion diffusion in 1986, going to plasma experiments at TRW in Redondo Beach, CA. Utilizing his laser and optics training he subsequently worked for Melles-Griot and Newport Corporations. He joined the physics faculty at Concordia University while pursuing his ministerial studies until he was called as Pastor to West Covina.

Dr. Robert Platt, Physicist, ASP, Inc., California In 1987 Dr. Platt joined Science Applications, Inc in New Mexico following his thesis work on electron current drive induced by lower hybrid fast waves. He worked on plasma accelerators of interest to the Air Force. Briefly, Dr. Platt went to Texas to work on the Superconducting Super Collider helping on accelerator design. Presently Dr. Platt is an experimental plasma physicist for Advanced Sterilization Products.

Prof. Daniel Sheehan, University of San Diego Prof. Sheehan joined the Physics faculty at USD in 1989. He had done postdoctoral work on electron current drive at UCI for about one year following his Ph.D. in 1987. His doctoral work had focused on plasma ion phase space transport. He now works on planetary formation and orbital radial spacing as well as maintaining experimental interests in dusty plasmas and science related to the Second Law of Thermodyamics.

Dr. Liangji Zhao, physicist at Far-Tech, Inc. Ph.D. 2005 on classical transport of fast ions.

Mr. David Zimmerman, physicist at the Optical Sciences Corporation did his master’s work (2004) on laser-induced fluorescence studies of radio frequency plasma sources, particularly in ion beam sources and edge plasmas.

Dr. Michael Zintl, Physicist, SARA, Inc., California Dr. Zintl's doctoral work advanced optical tomography while finding mechanisms leading to ion conic formation in laboratory plasmas. In 1996, he joined Prof. Mark Koepke's plasma physics research laboratory at West Virginia University to perform plasma experiments on ion heating due to current- or shear-driven waves, as related to space plasmas. Dr. Zintl has joined Dr. Koslover at Scientific Applications and Research Associates (www.sara.com).

Undergraduate Alumni (Bachelor of Science recipients):

	Frank Albert Ph.D., Cornell University
James Allington Graduate Student Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering UC Irvine

	Lisa Chan Medical Dosimetrist Long Beach Community Medical Center Cancer Treatment Center
Chris Cureton Senior Project Engineer, Endevco Chris.Cureton@endevco.com
		Brieanna Dolmage
James Danielson Graduate student University of California, San Diego
		Justin Eagan, SARA, Inc.
David Eisenberg Physics teacher Los Alamitos High School d_eisenberg@losal.org
Don Ellithorpe Graduate student University of Chicago

Christina Green High School Physics Teacher
		Phil Gruber Graduate student Washington University Medical School
Genae Jefferson DRS Technologies, Systems Engineering, Integration & Test Engineering www.drs.com
George Krboyan did undergraduate senior thesis on vacuum leak detectors and patent law.
Francisco Le Port Graduate student Stanford University
Mona Panchal, BS 2000 Graduate student California State University Los Angeles e-mail: mdp721@yahoo.com

Don Roberts
Ph.D. Princeton University (1991)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Akhil Shah, BS Physics and Electrical Engineering 2000. Northrup Grumman and graduate student UCLA

Loren Taylor
M.S. Cal. State Univ. San Francisco (1997)
Associate Engineer/Scientist, Lockheed Martin

Nick Zane Taylor, graduate student at University of Wisconsin.

James Thomas Digital Launch Pad LLC www.digitallaunchpad.com

Cawley Vaccarella Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Jeff Weinheimer
Graduate student
Auburn University

Tamara Alexendria Wolodarsky has bachelor’s degrees in biology and physics. She is involved in applied and biomedical physics in an entrepreneurial environment with several current patent applications. Tamara also enjoys Aikido, yoga, film, and getting out into nature. e-mail: tamarabuddingyogi@yahoo.com

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