Frederick Skiff

Frederick Skiff is professor of Physics at the University of Iowa, where his research focuses on experimental plasma physics and wave phenomena in magnetized plasmas. Skiff earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1979, with a dissertation examining the linear and nonlinear excitation of slow waves in the ion cyclotron frequency range—a regime of plasma wave physics directly relevant to plasma heating in magnetic confinement fusion devices. He has since built a career studying kinetic plasma phenomena, developing laser-based diagnostics capable of measuring ion velocity distribution functions with high resolution.