Rhonda Stroud | |
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 Rhonda Stroud | |
| Born | Rochester, NY |
| Alma mater | Cornell University California Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | materials physics, planetary science |
| Institutions | Naval Research Laboratory Arizona State University |
Rhonda M. Stroud (born 1971)[1] is a materials physicist and planetary scientist at Arizona State University, where she serves as Director of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies.[2] From 1998- 2022, she was a Research Physicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory, where she led the Nanoscale Materials Section.[3] She is known for her research on nanostructures, including quasicrystals and aerogel,[4] and on the materials that make up comets[5] and cosmic dust.[6][7] She pioneered the use of focused ion beam technology in the study of meteorites.[8]
Stroud graduated from Cornell University in 1991 and completed a Ph.D. in 1996 at Washington University in St. Louis.[4] She joined the Naval 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 a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010, [4] of the Microscopy Society of America in 2021.,[11] and of the Microanalysis society in 2022.[12] She is also a fellow of the Meteoritical Society.[10][13] Asteroid 8468 Rhondastroud was named after her in 2012.[1][3]
