Graduate Research Assistant Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
Ruairí O'Connor is a PhD student working on experimental studies of electron kinetics in glow discharge plasmas. He is working on the PSAAP III program as part of PECOS with a focus on experimental validation of models used in a predictive simulation of an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) torch. His faculty advisor is Dr. Philip Varghese.
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin