Faculty, Students and Alumni
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The MSU Solar Physics group was featured in the fall 2010 issue of Mountains & Minds, Montana State University's magazine. Read about the history of the solar physics group and the people who made it what is is today.
Meet MSU Solar Physics
Solar Physics Faculty
Angela Des Jardins, Ph.D.
Rachael Filwett, Ph.D.
Charles Kankelborg, Ph.D.
Office:Barnard Hall 260C
Phone: (406) 994-7853
[email protected]
Select honors
David M. Klumpar, Ph.D.
Office: Cobleigh 419
Phone: (406) 994-6169
Dana Longcope, Ph.D.
Phone: (406) 994-7851
[email protected]
Eric Priest, Ph.D.
Office: St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland
[email protected]
Select honors
- Hale Prize for lifetime achievement in solar physics, 2002
- Fellow of the Royal Society
Jiong Qiu, Ph.D.
Office: Barnard Hall Room 221
Phone: (406) 994-7253
[email protected]
Select honors
- Karen Harvey Award, 2007
John Sample, Ph.D
Office: Barnard Hall Room 222
Phone: (406) 994-1693
[email protected]
Larry Springer
Office: Cobleigh 418
Phone: (406)-994-6012
Aki Takeda, Ph.D.
Office: Barnard Hall Room 256
Phone: (406) 994-7848
[email protected]
Keiji Yoshimura, Ph.D.
Chunming Zhu, Ph.D.
Solar Physics Graduate Students
- Dillon Anderson
- Shane Atwood
- Catharine Bunn
- Eric Engel
- Rhiannon Fleming
- Nick Freeland
- Drake Osaben
- Suman Panda
- Michael Prazak
- Spencer Riley
- Arch Robison
- Roy Smart
- Wyatt Wetzel
Solar Physics Alumni
| Dr. Loren Acton | 2019 | Retired |
| Dr. Will Ashfield | 2022 | |
| Dr. Sean Brannon | 2016 | Physics, Montana State University |
| Dr. Richard Canfield | 2009 | Retired |
| Dr. Jonathan Cirtain* PECASE Award, 2011 |
2005 | Vice President and CTO of BWX Technologies, Inc. |
| Dr. Hans Courrier | 2020 | Resonon in Bozeman, MT |
| Dr. Angela Des Jardins | 2007 | Director, Montana Space Grant Consortium |
| Dr. Ricky Egeland | 2017 | NASA Johnson Space Center |
| Dr. J. Lewis Fox | 2011 | Radiation oncologist |
| Dr. Michael Freed | 2015 | Radford University |
| Dr. Silvina Guidoni | 2011 | American University |
| Dr. Brian Handy | 1999 | |
| Dr. Arlo Johnson | 2022 | |
| Dr. Maria Kazachenko | 2010 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Dr. Adam Kobelski | 2014 | NASA GSFC |
| Dr. Reyann Larkey (Joiner) | 2022 | |
| Dr. Brian Larsen | 2007 | Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Lab |
| Dr. Wenjuan Liu | 2014 | Post Doc, Czech Republic |
| Dr. Chris Lowder | 2015 | SouthWest Research Institute |
| Dr. Anna Malanushenko | 2010 | High Altitude Observatory |
| Dr. Marika McCarthy | 2021 | Bay Area Environmental Research Institute |
| Dr. Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo | 2010 | SouthWest Research Institute |
| Dr. Jake Parker | 2021 | Researcher, NASA GSFC |
| Dr. Tom Rust | 2017 | OpTeC, Montana State University |
| Dr. Sabrina Savage | 2010 | Deputy Project Scientist, NASA MSFC |
| Dr. Jason Scott | 2012 | |
| Dr. Roger Scott | 2016 | Naval Research Laboratory |
| Dr. Mike Shumko | 2019 | NASA GSFC |
| Dr. Lucas Tarr | 2013 | National Solar Observatory |
| Dr. John Unverferth | 2020 | Naval Research Lab |
| Dr. Mark Weber | 1999 | Astrophysicist, Harvard CfA |
| Dr. Brian Welsch* Karen Harvey Award, 2010 |
2002 | Research Scientist, UC Berkeley |
| Dr. Meredith Wills-Davey | 2003 | |
| Dr. Henry (Trae) Winter | 2009 | Arisa Lab |
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Last modified 12/14/2022