Freja Nordsiek

(in person)

Freja Nordsiek studied Physics and received her BS at Michigan Technological University (USA) in 2010, where she worked on the clustering of electrically charged, gravitationally settling, inertial particles in turbulence (cloud droplets are an example of such particles) with Prof. Dr. Raymond A. Shaw. In 2015 she received her PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland College Park (USA) with Prof. Dr. Daniel P. Lathrop, where she experimentally investigated Rayleigh-stable Taylor-Couette flow and granular electrification. She joined the institute in December 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher, and has focused primarily on the CloudKite Project. Dr. Nordsiek is interested in the dynamics of cloud particles in the atmosphere, particularly their spatial arrangement and relative movement at close ranges approaching the collision scale; which is important to understanding cloud evolution . On the CloudKite Project, she has focused on the inline holographic imaging system, the Instrument Box's computer systems and operational software, laser safety, and avionics.