Gregory Howes

Position: Professor

Affiliation: University of Iowa

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Gregory Howes is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa, where he primarily studies the nature of turbulence in weakly collisional space and astrophysical plasmas using theoretical models and massively parallel nonlinear gyrokinetic numerical simulations using the Astrophysical Gyrokinetics code, AstroGK. In 2004, he completed his Ph.D. in plasma physics at UCLA under the guidance of Professor Steve Cowley, then did a four-year postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley under Professor Eliot Quataert. He has authored or co-authored 65 peer-reviewed publications, primarily studies of plasma turbulence using a wide range of approaches, including analytical theory, numerical simulation, spacecraft observation, and laboratory experiment. In 2011, he received both a National Science Foundation CAREER Award from the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In 2016, he was awarded the inaugural Ronald C. Davidson Award for Plasma Physics.