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
Sean Brannon,Ph.D.
Angela Des Jardins, Ph.D.
Office: 413 Cobleigh Hall
Phone: (406) 994-6172
[email protected]
Charles Kankelborg, Ph.D.
Office:Barnard Hall 260C
Phone: (406) 994-7853
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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
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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
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Larry Springer
Office: Cobleigh 418
Phone: (406)-994-6012
Aki Takeda, Ph.D.
Office: Barnard Hall Room 256
Phone: (406) 994-7848
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Keiji Yoshimura, Ph.D.
Chunming Zhu, Ph.D.
Solar Physics Graduate Students
- Will Ashfield
- Shane Atwood
- Catharine Bunn
- Eric Engel
- Arlo Johnson
- Reyann Larkey (Joiner)
- Marika McCarthy
- Suman Panda
- Jake Parker
- Michael Prazak
- Willow Reed
- Roy Smart
- Wyatt Wetzel
Solar Physics Alumni
| Dr. Loren Acton | 2019 | Retired |
| Dr. Sean Brannon | 2016 | |
| Dr. Richard Canfield | 2009 | Retired |
| Dr. Jonathan Cirtain* PECASE Award, 2011 |
2005 | Project Scientist, NASA MSFC |
| Dr. Hans Courrier | 2020 | Resonon in Bozeman, MT |
| Dr. Angela Des Jardins | 2007 | Director, Montana Space Grant Consortium |
| Dr. Ricky Egeland | 2017 | |
| Dr. J. Lewis Fox | 2011 | Post Doc, National Solar Observatory |
| Dr. Michael Freed | 2015 | |
| Dr. Silvina Guidoni | 2011 | Post Doc, NASA GSFC |
| Dr. Brian Handy | 1999 | |
| Dr. Maria Kazachenko | 2010 | SHINE Post Doc, UC Berkeley |
| Dr. Adam Kobelski | 2014 | Post Doc, National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| Dr. Brian Larsen | 2007 | Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Lab |
| Dr. Wenjuan Liu | 2014 | Post Doc, Czech Republic |
| Dr. Chris Lowder | 2015 | |
| Dr. Anna Malanushenko | 2010 | Post Doc, Lockheed Martin |
| Dr. Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo | 2010 | Post Doc, Harvard CfA |
| Dr. Tom Rust | 2017 | |
| Dr. Sabrina Savage | 2010 | Deputy Project Scientist, NASA MSFC |
| Dr. Jason Scott | 2012 | |
| Dr. Roger Scott | 2016 | |
| Dr. Mike Shumko | 2019 | |
| Dr. Lucas Tarr | 2013 | Post Doc, High Altitude Observatory |
| Dr. John Unverferth | 2020 | |
| 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 | Astrophysicist, Harvard CfA |
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Last modified 10/30/2020