These pages link to student research work that was performed in the Plasma Sciences Laboratory (2001-2013) and the Magnetized Plasma Research Laboratory (2014 – present)
- Zachary Aldewereld (BS, Physics, 2007), “Development of segmented electrodes to manipulate dust clouds in a dc glow discharge dusty plasma” (Undergraduate Honors Thesis)
- Jeremiah Williams (PhD, Physics, 2006), “Measurement of the thermal properties of a weakly-coupled complex (dusty) plasma“
- Ashley Eadon (PhD, Physics, 2011), “Modification of Flow and Flow Driven Instabilities in the Auburn Linear EXperiment for Instability Studies“
- Erik Tejero (PhD, Physics, 2011), “Spontaneous Electromagnetic Emission from a Strongly Localized Plasma Flow“
- Mark Cianciosa (PhD, Physics, 2012), “Measurements and Modification of Sheared Flows and Stability on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid Stellarator”
- Ross Fisher (PhD, Physics, 2012), “Measurement of the phase space distribution in a complex plasma“
- Ami DuBois (Ph.D., Physics, 2013), “Laboratory Investigation of the Dynamics of Shear Flows in a Plasma Boundary Layer”
- Brian Lynch (Ph.D., Physics, 2017), “Microparticle Dynamics in Strongly Magnetized Low Temperature Plasmas“
- N. Ivan Arnold (Ph.D., Physics, 2017), “An investigation into the role of metastable states on excited populations of weakly ionized argon plasmas, with applications for optical diagnostics” (Dissertation – Link to AU e-disseration page)
- Spencer LeBlanc (Ph.D., Physics, 2019), “Investigation of Probe-Induced Dust Voids in a Weakly Magnetized Dusty Plasma”
- Taylor Hall (Ph.D., Physics, 2019), “Microparticle Dynamics in the Presence of Externally Imposed, Ordered Structures in a Magnetized Low-Temperature Plasma“
- Mohamad Menati (Ph.D., Physics, 2020), “Filamentation and Formation of Imposed Patterns in Low-Pressure Magnetized Electric Discharges: A Numerical Approach”
- Lori McCabe (Ph.D., Physics, 2022), “Investigation of the Redistribution of Kinetic Energy in a Microgravity Complex (Dusty) Plasma”
- Michael McKinlay (Ph.D., Physics, 2022), “Controlling dust charge in complex plasmas“,
- Stephen Williams (Ph.D., Physics, 2023), “Filament Morphology in Highly Magnetized Capacitively Coupled Low Temperature Plasmas“
- Bhavesh Ramkorun (Ph.D., Physics, 2025), “Investigating the growth cycles of titania and carbonaceous nano dusty plasmas“