REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - Key Persons


Brian Bayer

Job Titles:
  • Student, Joined in 2019 ( Co - Advised With Prof. Bhan, CEMS ) Research

D. Yuan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Yanshan University, China, 2019 - 2020

Dr. G. Nayak

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Dr. J. Santos Sousa

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar, Visiting from University Paris Sud, Paris, March - April 2016

Dr. J. Wang

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Visiting PhD Student, Xi`an Jiaotong University, China, 2019 - 2021

Dr. M. Qian

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Marien Simeni

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate, 2018 - 2020

Dr. R. Brandenburg

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar, Visiting from INP Greifswald, Germany, November 2015

Dr. Shurik Yatom

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, 2014 - 2016

Dr. Stephen Exarhos

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate, 2020 - 2022

Dr. Urvashi Gangal

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate, 2013 - 2016
  • Researcher, June 2016 - Present

Dr. Z. Chang

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, Chinese Government Scholarship ( CSC ), 2017 - 2018

Ernst Eckert

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director of Graduate Studies of Mechanical Engineering Director, High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering

Eva Wolfe

Job Titles:
  • Co - Advised With Prof. Bhan, CEMS )

G. Oinuma

Job Titles:
  • Researcher, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan, October 2015 - October 2016

Griffin Trayner

Job Titles:
  • Student Joined Fall 2023 ( Co - Advised With Prof. Simeni, ME ) Research

Jae Hyun Nam

Job Titles:
  • Student, Joined in 2021 / Research

M. Jacquart

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar, Université Paris - Saclay, France, 2022

Mahreen Khan

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Joined in 2022
Research Interests: RF-based atmospheric pressure plasma jets and plasma diagnostics

Prof. Peter J. Bruggeman

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished McKnight University Professor
  • Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Professor and Associate Department Head, Mechanical Engineering Director, High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering
  • Professor and Associate Head of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota
Education: MSc. Physics, 2005, Ghent University Belgium; MSc. Engineering: Applied Physics, Ghent University, Belgium; PhD, 2008, Applied Physics, Ghent University, Belgium. Biography: Dr. Peter J. Bruggeman is Professor and Associate Head of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He serves as the Director of the High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory and Associate Director of the Department of Energy Center on Plasma Interactions with Complex Interfaces consisting of eight institutions. He also leads a MURI grand on ‘Plasma-driven solution electrochemistry. Prof. Bruggeman obtained his PhD from Ghent University, Belgium, in 2008 and was an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, from 2009 until he joined the University of Minnesota in 2013. He has published over 110 papers in peer-reviewed journals and delivered invited and keynote lectures at over 80 international meetings. His research has been recognized with several awards including the 2012 Hershkowitz Early Career Award, the 2013 Institute of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Medal and Prize in Plasma Physics, the 2016 US Department of Energy Early Career Award, the 2018 Peter Mark Memorial Award of the American Vacuum Society, and the 2020 George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Bruggeman is an active member of his research community. He is currently the section editor for Low Temperature Plasmas of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (Institute of Physics Publishing, UK) and serves as an editorial board member of several other journals. He also served on the committee charged by the National Academies with the Decadal Study of Plasma Science (Plasma 2020), and co-edited the "2017 Plasma Roadmap" stating directions for the future development of the field of low temperature plasma. Prof. Bruggeman is also an elected member of the board of directors of the International Society of Plasma Chemistry. He has been a member of more than a dozen international scientific and organizing committees of meetings in his research field. Prof. Bruggeman was the elected chair of the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science and organized the conference "Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics X" in 2013 in the Netherlands."

S. Deng

Job Titles:
  • Visiting PhD Student, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2023

S. Tang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Yanshan University, China, Chinese Government Scholarship ( CSC ) 2019 - 2020

T. Thedens

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, 2023

Y. Zheng

Job Titles:
  • Visiting PhD Student, Xi`an Jiaotong University, China, Chinese Government Scholarship ( CSC ), 2018 - 2019