LASP Personnel

Principal Investigator

Cathy Dukes

Catherine A. Dukes

Research Scientist, Materials Science & Engineering LASP-UVa PI | KEVION PI NMCF Scientist (XPS | XRF | FTIR)

LASP Scientists & Researchers

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    Adam Woodson (Research Scientist)

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 102B

    Email: akw8r@virginia.edu

  • Noah Jaeggi

    Noah Jaeggi (Visiting Scholar / Post Doc)

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 102B

    Email: rbn4hm@virginia.edu

LASP Graduate Students

  • Kamil Stelmach

    Kamil Stelmach (Ph.D. Candidate | Chemistry)

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 104

    Email: kbs7dqw@virginia.edu

  • Rachel Gross

    Rachel Gross (Ph.D. Candidate | Chemistry/Astronomy)

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 104

    Email: reg4ff@virginia.edu

  • Lianis Reyes Rosa Headshot

    Lianis Reyes Rosa (Ph.D. Candidate | Astronomy)

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 104

    Email: yqm7fy@virginia.edu

LASP Undergraduate Researchers

  • Cass Morel

    Cassandre Morel

    VICO Summer Research Fellow | VSGC Research Fellow

    SDTrimSP Simulations for Na-Depletion by ion-irradiation

    LAMMPS Simulations of Na-Diffusion within Hermean regolith grains

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 104

    Email: vva8cb@virginia.edu

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    Jackson Glass

    VICO Summer Research Fellow | Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Development of O-REx Vacuum Transfer Vessel

    XPS Compositional Error Analysis Computations

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 104

    Email: gzy5jd@virginia.edu

  • Aubrey Carley

    Aubrey M. Carley

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Development & Design of Vacuum Sample Introduction and Processing Chamber with Support System

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 104

    Email: epw7sr@virginia.edu

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    Shane Sawyer

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Laboratory Astrochemistry 

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 104

    Email: jmj9an@virginia.edu

  • Annabel Li

    Annabel Li

    VICO Summer Research Fellow

    LAMMPS Simulations of He-Vesicle formation in weathered grains

    Office: Thornton Hall B-Wing | Room 104

    Email: al2vy@virginia.edu

LASP Alumni

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    Jeroen Terwisscha van Scheltinga (VICO Post Doc)

    Present: Leiden University, NL (Post Doc)

  • Caixia Bu (LASP Post Doc)

    Caixia Bu (LASP Post Doc)

    Present: Columbia University (Associate Research Scientist)

  • Gerard

    Gerard Rodriguez Lopez (Masters in Science - MSE)

    Present: LIGHTHOUSE Instruments | R&D Scientist/Engineer

  • Tin Ho

    Tin Ho (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow)

    Present: Smithsonian National Zoo

  • Kyle Gresko

    Kyle Gresko (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow)

  • Leah Smith

    Leah Smith (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow)

  • Jillian Maxson

    Jillian Maxson (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow)

  • jack spinnanger

    Jack Spinnanger (Undergraduate Research Assistant)

  • Grace Minesinger

    Grace Minesinger (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow / Psyche Mission Research Assistant)

    Present: University of Wisconsin - Medical Physics Ph.D. Program

  • Ignacio Simon (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow)

    Present: Boston College - Computational Chemistry Ph.D. Program

  • Grant Killian (Undergraduate Research Assistant)

    Present: UVA School of Medicine

  • Sarah Rogers (M.M.S.E. in Materials Science)

    Present: Klöckner Pentaplast | R&D Scientist

  • Matheus Pires de Carvalho (VICO Summer Research Fellow)

  • Linda Ziamanesh (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow)

    Present: UVA Masters in Chemistry Program

  • Matt Jones (Undergraduate Research Assistant)

  • Brian Richards (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow)

    Present: National Ground Intelligence Center

  • Logan Honts (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow)

    Present: UVa Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. program

  • Jessica Oraegbu (VICO Undergraduate Research Fellow)

  • Salvador Adrian (VICO Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow)

  • Yuvraj Singh (VICO Summer Research Fellow)