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NWRA Welcomes Joe Hughes, Senior Research Scientist, Boulder Office
April 2025
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Joe joined NWRA 1 April 2025. He will be working with LJ Nickisch’s group on ionospheric modeling and radio wave propagation physics as well as developing new research programs of his own. Joe received his PhD in 2018 from CU in Aerospace Engineering under Dr. Hanspeter Schaub. His thesis was titled, “Dynamics of Complex Spacecraft Subject to Forced and Environmental Charging.” While in school, he interned at NASA Wallops and AFRL in Albuquerque. After graduating he joined Orion Space Solutions in Louisville, CO. Not only is Joe well connected with our AFRL sponsors, he is also familiar with the LJ Team’s work, having performed previous studies with NWRA's assimilative ionospheric modeling capability GPSII and HF propagation capability HiCIRF. Please welcome Joe! |