Bennett A Maruca

Bennett A Maruca is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Delaware, part of the College of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on solar wind, space plasmas, kinetic microinstabilities, and space mission development, with expertise in instrumentation like Faraday cups and Langmuir probes. He joined UD in 2016 after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (2012–2015).

• Education:
  • B.S. in Physics, Carnegie Mellon University (2006)
  • B.S. in Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University (2006)
  • A.M. in Astronomy, Harvard University (2008)
  • Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University (2012)

His research interests span solar wind dynamics, Coulomb collisions, CubeSat technology, and high-altitude balloon missions. He leads experiments in space plasma physics and contributes to instrument development for sounding rockets and orbital platforms. No scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided text.

Advising and grants are not detailed here, but his role as faculty likely involves mentoring students in experimental and theoretical space physics. His laboratory is located in room 315 of the ISE Lab.