Uwe Konopka
Associate Professor
Experimental Plasma Physics

Office: Allison Lab # 107

Address:
206 Allison Laboratory
Auburn, AL 36849-5319

Phone: (334) 844-4248
Fax: (334) 844-4613
Email: uzk0003@auburn.edu

Education

Ph.D., Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany 2000
Diploma in Physics, Ruhr- University, Germany 1996
Intermediate Diploma in Mathematics, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany 1991
Intermediate Diploma in Physics, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany 1991


Professional Employment

Associate Professor, Auburn University 2012- present
Advisory Board Chair, MDPX, Auburn, AL 2011-2012
Senior Research Scientist/Project Manager, Max-Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany 2007-2012
Research Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany 2002- 2007
Diploma Thesis, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany 1995


Honors and Awards

Selected as chair for Auburn University MDPX Advisory board 2011-2012
Awarded brass medal for more than 500 (or 600) performed parabolic flight maneuvers- Novespace, Fance 2010
Best Poster Award, 2nd International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Hakone, Japan 1999


Selected Publications

  1. M. Chaushuri, V. Nosenko, C. Knapek, U. Konopka, A.V. Ivlev, H.M. Thomas, and G.E. Morfill, Direct experimental observation of binary agglomerates in complex plasmas, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 264101, 2012.
  2. Kretschmer M., Konopka U., Zhdanov S.K., Thomas H.M., Morfill G.E., Fortov V.E., Molotkov V.I.,Lipaev A.M., and Petrov O., Particles Inside the Void of a Complex Plasma, IEEE TRANSACTIONS OF PLASMA SCIENCE 39 (11), 2758, 2011
  3. Schwabe M., Konopka U., Bandyopadhyay P. and Morfill G.E., Pattern Formation in a Complex Plasma in High Magnetic Fields, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 106, 215004, 2011
  4. Du Cheng-Ran, Thomas H.M. Ivlev A., Konopka U. and Morfill G.E., Agglomeration of microparticles in complex plasmas, PHYSICS OF PLASMAS 17, 113710, 2010
  5. Bandyopadhyay P., Konopka U., Khrapak S., Morfill G.E., and Sen A., Effect of polarization force on the propagation of dust acoustic solitary waves, NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 12, 073002, 2010


Last updated: 05/07/2015