Professor • Vice Chair • Fellow - Center for Stem Learning
Physics
Research Interests: Noah Finkelstein is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He serves as a PI of the Physics Education Research (PER) group and was a founding co-Director Center for STEM Learning, which has served as one of eight national demonstration sites for the Association of American Universities鈥� (AAU) STEM Education Initiative. He co-directs the national Network of STEM Education Centers. Finkelstein鈥檚 research focuses on studying...
Research Interests: My research is in the general area of space plasma physics, cosmic dust, and planetary science. My primary work takes place at the Institute for Modeling Plasmas, Atmospheres, and Cosmic DusT (IMPACT, http://impact.colorado.edu ), where we have several parallel experimental and modeling efforts related to plasma/surface interactions at airless bodies, the evolution of planetary surfaces, the dynamics of cosmic dust, the physics of hypervelocity impacts at small scales,...
