| Raśl A. Baragiola | | Alice M. and Guy A. Wilson Professor of Engineering | | Ph.D., Instituto Balseiro, Argentina | | | | Dr. Baragiola has served on the faculty since 1990. He is the director of the Laboratory for Atomic and Surface Physics, and has published more than 180 technical papers and has edited one book. He received the Inter-American Prize for Exact Sciences from the Organization of American States and several physics prizes. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), honorary member of the Bömische Physical Society, and has been elected chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Particle-Solid Interactions. Dr. Baragiola serves on NASA's plasma spectrometer team for the Cassini mission to Saturn and on several international scientific committees. Previously he worked at the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission, where he was chairman of the Atomic Collisions Division and head of Microcomputer Development, and he was the CEO of a computer manufacturing company. | | | | Research Interests | | Raśl Baragiola's research interests include the fundamentals and applications of the interaction of energetic ions, electrons and photons with matter; electron spectroscopy of atoms and surfaces; surface physics and analysis; properties of insulating materials, especially ices at low temperatures; laboratory astrophysics and magnetospheric interactions; focused ion beams applications in biology and geology; vacuum and ion beam science and technology; optical spectroscopy of solids, and instrumentation for space research. Other areas of scholarship are the evolution of creativity, and complexity in cognition and its applications for learning, operations and industrial design. | | |
Sponsored Research
Surface Properties of Icy Satellites (funded by: National Science Foundation)
Laboratory Simulations of Optical Reflectance of Icy Surfaces (funded by: NASA Geology and Geophysics Program)
Radiation Chemistry of Planetary Surfaces: Synthesis and Decomposition (funded by: NASA Planetary Materials and Geochemistry Program)
Molecular Synthesis and Desorption in Pre-Cometary Icy Grains: Laboratory Simulations (funded by: NASA Origins of Solar System Program)
Laboratory Simulations and Theoretical Modeling (Cassini Mission Operations and Data Analysis) (funded by: SWRI)
An Imaging X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer for In-Situ Chemical Analysis of Asteroid, Satellite, and Comet Surfaces and Dust (funded by: NASA Planetary Instrument Definition and Development Program)
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