Faculty, Research Physicists, and Engineers:
(Prof. Roger McWilliams, Dr. Heinrich Boehmer, Prof. William Heidbrink, Mr. Virgil Laul, Prof. Greg Severn)

Roger McWilliams, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, earned his Ph.D. in 1980 from Princeton University and the B.A. from the University of California, Irvine in 1975. Prior to finishing his Ph.D. he joined the faculty at UCI. His teaching has been recognized with multiple awards for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education at UCI. He was the inaugural winner of the UC systemwide Presidential Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research recognizing his leadership in creating and overseeing undergraduate research opportunities. He is founding director of the Campuswide Honors Program and founder of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. His research areas are experimental studies of wave propagation and particle transport in plasmas and laser development. e-mail: mcw@uci.edu; Lab phone: 949-824-6228 Office: 949-824-4253; Facsimile: 949-824-6228 Mailing address: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4575
	Dr. Heinrich Boehmer, plasma physicist with decades of experience in industrial high tech plasma applications and university settings.
	Dr. Eusebio Garate, plasma physicist with expertise in pulsed power applications.
Prof. William Heidbrink, with major research interests in fusion plasma physics and particularly in fast ion transport.
Greg Severn, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of San Diego, is a regular collaborator at UC Irvine. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1987. His experimental plasma physics research focuses upon ion transport, chaos, and laser development. He is also interested in innovations in physics education and is currently working on new experiments for upper division thermodynamics. e-mail: severn@acusd.edu Office phone: 619-260-6845 Facsimile: 619-260-2303 Mailing address: Dept. of Physics, University of San Diego, Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110
	Virgil Laul, Senior Development Engineer, has had a long career at UC Irvine and in aerospace industry. He is in charge of electrical and mechanical engineering needs of the lab. e-mail: vlaul@uci.edu Office phone: 949-824-6228 Facsimile: 949-824-6228

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