Dr. Emily Lichko is currently a NSF AGS (Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Arizona, working with Assistant Professor Kristopher Klein on the effects of linear and nonlinear physics on the onset and evolution of microinstabilities in space-relevant plasmas. Dr. Lichko’s research focuses on kinetic plasma physics processes in space and astrophysical plasmas, in particular as they relate to questions of particle heating and nonlinear processes that affect the evolution of collisionless, anisotropic plasmas.

Emily received her B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2013 and her Ph.D. in 2020 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working under the supervision of Professor Jan Egedal. Outside of her research, she enjoys swimming, biking, running, and failing to replicate recipes from the Great British Bake Off.