Faculty Directory

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 1977
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 1976
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 1973

BACKGROUND

Thomas M. Antonsen Jr. was born in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1950.  He graduated from Cornell University where he received his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1973, and his Master's and Ph. D. degrees in 1976 and 1977, respectively.  He was a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1976-1977, and a research scientist in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 1977 to 1980.  In 1980 he moved to the University of Maryland where he joined the faculty of the departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics in 1984.  He is currently Professor of Physics, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Electrophysics.  Professor Antonsen has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (U.C.S.B.), the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Institute de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.  He served as the acting director of the Institute for Plasma Research (currently the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics) at the University of Maryland from 1998 to 2000.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• American Physical Society James Clerk Maxwell Award (2023)
• IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award (2022)
• University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor (2017)
• John R. Pierce Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics (2016)
• Fellow of  the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2012)
• Clark School of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Research Award (2004)
• IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award (2003)
• Robert L. Woods Award for "Excellence in Vacuum Electronics" (1999)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (1986)

Orcid: 0000-0002-2362-2430, Google Scholar

• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
• Plasma Theory
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Professor Antonsen is the author or co-author of over 400 journal articles and co-author of the book "Principles of Free-Electron Lasers."   He has served on the editorial board of Physical Review Letters, the Physics of Fluids, and Comments on Plasma Physics.