Lathrop, Daniel
Professor of Physics and Geology
Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
3319 A.V. Williams Bldg.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 1991
- B.A., Physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1987
BACKGROUND
Professor Lathrop received a B.A. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. He was a postdoctoral fellow, research affiliate, and lecturer at Yale University, and was later an assistant professor at Emory University. He joined the University of Maryland in 1997.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Ed Lorenz Lecturer (2013)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (2005)
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the National Science Foundation (1997)
- Magnetorotational instability
- Turbulent dissipation
- Magnetoturbulence and dynamos
- Strongly nonlinear surface waves
- Ingassing in breaking waves
- Chaotic light-scattering