06-09 SERC Director                 

Professor of Astronautics, Aerospace Engineering Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southern California

email: Kunc@usc.edu
phone: (213) 821-5817
web:   http://astronautics.usc.edu

Joseph Kunc is Professor of Astronautics, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Astronomy, and Systems Architecture and Engineering. He was the founder and Director of the SERC from 2006 until 2009. He is Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). His research interests are in dynamics of molecular and radiative processes, transport of energy and momentum in high-energy flows, electronic processes in propulsion engines, nonequilibrium phenomena in partially ionized plasmas, dynamics of particles in the interplanetary and interstellar medium, and statistical thermodynamics.

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