Bennett A Maruca
Bennett A Maruca
Associate Professor
Office: 272 Sharp Lab
Lab Location: 315 ISE Lab
Biography
​BS in Physics​ from Carnegie Mellon University (2006); BS in Mathematical Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University (2006); AM in Astronomy from Harvard University (2008); PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Harvard University (2012); Postdoctoral Fellow as the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (2012-2015); joined 91Ô´´/DPA in 2016​
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Research
​Solar wind, spac​​e plasmas, kinetic microinstabilities, Coulomb collisions, space mission development, high-altitude balloons, sounding rockets, CubeSats, space instrumentation, Faraday cups, Langmuir probes