Department of Physics

Research Opportunities.

Department of Physics

Jay Ansher (Ph.D. 2001 University of Iowa)



Personal Homepage

Email: ansher -at- phy.ilstu.edu


Research Interests

Dr. Ansher is the department's Director of General Education Laboratories. He coordinates activities related to our Physics 102 "Atoms to Galaxies" class and laboratory experiments. He also teaches one or two sections of that class.

Dr. Ansher is an experimental space plasma physicist. His research includes the study of the magnetospheres of Jupiter and the Earth, using spacecraft data from Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini, and Cluster.