Faculty, Research, and Staff

Faculty

Professor Philip Lubin
Director, Experimental Cosmology Laboratory, Space Research Laboratory, Interstellar Center

CONTACT:
Physics Department, UCSB
Broida Hall, Rm. 2015C
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530
Tel: 1.805.893.8432
Fax: 1.805.893.3307
Email: lubin [at] deepspace.ucsb.edu

Research Interests

Directed Energy Systems
Experimental cosmology
Cosmic Background Radiation – spectrum, anisotropy and polarization
Satellite, balloon-born and ground-based studies of the early universe
Fundamental Limits of Detection
IR and FIR Astrophysics

Researchers

Dr. Peter Meinhold Research Physicist Research interests: Experimental Cosmology, Directed Energy Systems, Detectors Projects worked on: CoBE Satellite Planck Mission All previous projects listed here
Dr. Jatila van der Veen Project Scientist Research Interests: Interstellar Center, Experimental Cosmology, Physics and Astronomy Education Research, Learning in Virtual Reality Projects worked on: Planck Mission, Education Lead Planck Mission in VR Sonification of the CMB Remote Access Astronomy Project Personal web page
Dr. Peter R. Krogen Post Doctoral Scholar – now working in industry. Research Interests: Ultra-fast optics and X-rays, laser phased arrays, directed energy Projects worked on: Novel Mid-IR Sources for High-Harmonic Generation in Gases and Solids
Dr. Prashant Srinivasan Post Doctoral Scholar Research Interests: Quantum optics, laser phased arrays, directed energy Projects worked on: Stability of laser-propelled wafer satellites

Graduate Student Researchers

Ari Kaplan

Research interests: Experimental Cosmology

Current project: Greenland Polarization Experiment

Staff

Nic Rupert, Senior Engineer Chief Engineer, Laboratory Head, Space Systems Research Laboratory, Electronic & Advanced Systems Division, Experimental Cosmology Group Department of Physics. B.S. Physics, UCSB Satellite design and construction; in charge of everything to do with the wafer sats, on-board electronics, micro-imaging devices, laser comm, wafer design, materials, etc. See Wafer Scale Spacecraft
Yu “John” Wang B.S. Physics, UCSB (2017) Research: FT-IR, spectroscopic analysis of vaporized material, WaferSat launcher design, how to fix a random lab problem.
Will Hettel B.S. Physics, UCSB (2017) Research: Phased laser array development, WaferSat launcher design and construction, FPGA programming, data acquisition, wafer fabrication
Alexander “Sasha” Cohen (Class of 2019) Physics Department, College of Letters & Sciences. Research: Phased laser arrays, vacuum chambers, telescope systems, data acquisition/analysis My work pertains largely to the mechanical design and construction of dynamic and static systems relating to radio telescope CMB anisotropy experiments, phased laser arrays for planetary defense and directed energy propulsion, and vacuum chambers for ablation and spectroscopy experiments.