Research Assistant Professor
Thomas Steinberger received his Ph.D. in Experimental Plasma Physics from West Virginia University in 2020. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics at West Virginia University and is currently a Research Assistant Professor at West Virginia University. His Ph.D. work focused on diagnosing electric thruster- and fusion- relevant plasmas both at WVU and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he implemented two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence on the Prototype Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (Proto-MPEX). His present research pursues single- and multi-photon absorption laser spectroscopy diagnostics to measure ion and neutral velocity distribution functions in a range of cold gas and plasma systems.