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EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 1991
• B.A., Physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1987

BACKGROUND

Professor Lathrop received a B.A. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991.   He was a postdoctoral fellow, research affiliate, and lecturer at Yale University, and was later an assistant professor at Emory University.  He joined the University of Maryland in 1997.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Ed Lorenz Lecturer (2013)
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (2005)
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the National Science Foundation (1997)

Orcid: 0000-0001-9282-3247, Google Scholar

• Magnetorotational instability
• Turbulent dissipation
• Magnetoturbulence and dynamos
• Strongly nonlinear surface waves
• Ingassing in breaking waves
• Chaotic light-scattering