Biography:Rhonda Stroud
Rhonda Stroud | |
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 Rhonda Stroud | |
| Born | Rochester, NY |
| Alma mater | Cornell University California Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | materials physics, planetary science |
| Institutions | Naval Research Laboratory Arizona State University |
Rhonda M. Stroud (born 1971)[1] is a materials physicist and planetary scientist at Arizona State University, where she serves as Director of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies.[2] From 1998- 2022, she was a Research Physicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory, where she led the Nanoscale Materials Section.[3] She is known for her research on nanostructures, including quasicrystals and aerogel,[4] and on the materials that make up comets[5] and cosmic dust.[6][7] She pioneered the use of focused ion beam technology in the study of meteorites.[8]
Education and career
Stroud graduated from Cornell University in 1991 and completed a Ph.D. in 1996 at Washington University in St. Louis.[4] She joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1996 as a postdoctoral researcher, and two years later obtained a permanent position there as a Research Physicist.[9]
She served as president of the Microanalysis Society for 2018–2020.[10]
Recognition
Stroud was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010, [4] of the Microscopy Society of America in 2021.,[11] and of the Microanalysis society in 2022.[12] She is also a fellow of the Meteoritical Society.[10][13] Asteroid 8468 Rhondastroud was named after her in 2012.[1][3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "8468 Rhondastroud (1981 EA40)", JPL Small-Body Database, https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8468, retrieved 2020-06-07
- ↑ New Meteorite Studies Director 2022, August 30, 2022, https://meteorites.asu.edu/news/new-director-2022
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Parry, Daniel (June 20, 2012), NRL Scientist Honored in Naming of Astronomical Body, US Naval Research Laboratory, https://www.nrl.navy.mil/news/releases/nrl-scientist-honored-naming-astronomical-body
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bowie, Amanda (June 14, 2010), Dr. Rhonda Stroud Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, US Naval Research Laboratory, https://www.nrl.navy.mil/news/releases/dr-rhonda-stroud-elected-fellow-american-physical-society
- ↑ Chen, Victor (November 12, 2019), NRL Researchers Find Insights into the Formation of the Solar System in Ancient Comet Dust, US Naval Research Laboratory, https://www.nrl.navy.mil/news/releases/nrl-researchers-find-insights-formation-solar-system-ancient-comet-dust
- ↑ Eichner, Cassandra (April 9, 2019), NRL Researcher Ventures to the Antarctic in Search of Cosmic Dust, US Naval Research Laboratory, https://www.nrl.navy.mil/news/releases/nrl-researcher-ventures-antarctic-search-cosmic-dust
- ↑ Condliffe, Jamie (August 2014), "NASA Scientists Find The First Interstellar Space Particles", Gizmodo, https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/08/nasa-scientists-find-the-first-interstellar-space-particles/
- ↑ Stroud, Rhonda M.; Nittler, Larry R.; Alexander, Conel M. O'D. (September 2004). "Polymorphism in Presolar Al2O3 Grains from Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars". Science 305 (5689): 1455–1457. doi:10.1126/science.1101099. PMID 15353800. Bibcode: 2004Sci...305.1455S. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1101099.
- ↑ Niebur, Susan (December 17, 2010), "Rhonda Stroud: Be visible and be involved", 51 Women in Planetary Science (Women in Planetary Science), https://womeninplanetaryscience.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/rhonda-stroud-be-visible-and-be-involved/, retrieved 2020-06-07
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Executive Council, Microanalysis Society, November 10, 2018, https://the-mas.org/about-us/leadership/executive-council/, retrieved 2020-06-07
- ↑ "Awards & Scholarships - MSA Fellows by Election Year". https://www.microscopy.org/awards/listoffellows_year.cfm.
- ↑ MAS Fellows, Microanalysis Society, https://the-mas.org/awards/mas-fellows/, retrieved 2022-08-30}
- ↑ "Fellows | Meteoritical Society". https://meteoritical.org/awards/fellows.
External links
- Rhonda Stroud publications indexed by Google Scholar
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