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          Dr. Kristina Lemmer is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Western Michigan University. She is an expert in both physical and non-intrusive plasma diagnostics, electric propulsion, and experimental plasma engineering. Her research interests include experimental plasma dynamics, advanced spacecraft propulsion and electric propulsion, plasma diagnostic development, spectroscopic techniques for plasma analysis, nanosecond pulsed plasma discharges, small spacecraft development, and hypersonic plasma interactions.

          Previously, she was a recipient of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's Young Investigator Program Award. In 2018 and 2019, Dr. Lemmer participated in the Air Force Research Laboratory's Summer Faculty Fellowship Program where she researched nanosecond pulsed plasma discharges using Raman, Rayleigh, and Thomson scattering techniques. In 2012, she participated in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Summer Faculty Research Program where she specialized in Hall thruster wall erosion measurements and diagnostics. She earned her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2009.