Rhonda Stroud | |
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 Rhonda Stroud | |
| Born | |
| Alma mater | Cornell University California Institute of Technology Washington University in St. Louis |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | materials physics, planetary science |
| Institutions | Naval Research Laboratory Arizona State University |
Rhonda M. Stroud (born 1971)[1] is amaterials physicist andplanetary scientist atArizona State University, where she serves as Director of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies.[2] From 1998- 2022, she was a Research Physicist at theUnited States Naval Research Laboratory, where she led the Nanoscale Materials Section.[3] She is known for her research onnanostructures, includingquasicrystals andaerogel,[4] and on the materials that make upcomets[5] andcosmic dust.[6][7] She pioneered the use offocused ion beam technology in the study ofmeteorites.[8]
Stroud graduated fromCornell University in 1991 and completed a Ph.D. in 1996 atWashington University in St. Louis.[4] She joined theNaval Research Laboratory in 1996 as a postdoctoral researcher, and two years later obtained a permanent position there as a Research Physicist.[9]
She served as president of the Microanalysis Society for 2018–2020.[10]
Stroud was elected as aFellow of the American Physical Society in 2010,[4] of theMicroscopy Society of America in 2021.,[11] and of the Microanalysis society in 2022.[12]She is also a fellow of theMeteoritical Society.[10][13] Asteroid8468 Rhondastroud was named after her in 2012.[1][3]
