Walter Gekelman

Education Bachelor of Science Brooklyn College Brooklyn, New York 1966 Master of Science Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey 1968 Ph.D. Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey 1972 Scientific Honors and Fellowships APS Fellow 1996 Elected to Executive Board American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics 1996-1999 Division of Plasma Physics Science Education 1997-2000 American Physical Society (Division of Plasma Physics) Distinguished Lecturer 1999-2000 APS-DPP Outstanding Thesis Committee 1999-2000 APS-DPP Education Outreach Committee 1999-2006 National Research Council Plasma Science Committe e Jan 2001-June 2005 Chairman, APS-DPP Nominating Committee 2002-2003 National Research Council Burning Plasma Experiment Committee Sept 2002-Sept 2003 National Research Council Decadal Survey of Plasma Science Sept 2005-Jan 2007 UCLA Physics Dept. Outstanding Teaching Award, 1986, 1987, 1988,1997, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2016 National Academy Committee of Undergraduate Research 2011 Vice Chair APS-DPP: Topical Group on Plasma Astrophysics 2011 International Organizing Committee, TMB-2011, 2014 , 2016, 2017 (Turbulent Mixing and Beyond), Trieste Italy Organizer Mini-Conference Magnetic Flux Ropes, APS-DPP meeting, Providence Rhode Island (Nov 2012) Organizer-Mini-conference on Magnetic Flux Ropes, UCLA, (February 2014) International Organizing Committee European Plasma Society Plasma Diagnostics Conference, Bordeaux France 2016 Professional Organizations American Physical Society American Geophysical Union American Association of Physics Teachers American Astrophysical Society Reviewer for Scientific Journals: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physics of Plasmas, Physics of Fluids, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Physica Scripta, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, American Journal of Physics, Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Annales Geophysicae, USRI Reviews of Space Science, Journal of Plasma Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, HEDLP (High Energy Density Laser Plasma), Radio Science Scientific Proposal Reviewer: The National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, NASA, The Office of Naval Research, Research Corporation, UC Mexus Program, Cal-Micro Program, Research Corporation, Cal-Space Foundation, Flanders Research Foundation, DOE SBIR Program Experience Distinguished Research Professor July 2020-present Distinguished Professor of Physics August 2007- July 2020 Professor of Physics July 1994 – July 2007 Professor in Residence (Physics) July 1985 - July 1994 Postdoc-Research Scientist March 1973 - July 1994 Director Basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA (DOE-NSF funded National User Facility) Jan 2000 – March 2016 Associate Director Basic Plasma Science April 2016 - present Facility in charge of new Projects