Paul Cassak

Paul Cassak is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and associate director of the Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics at West Virginia University. He is a theoretical and computational space plasma physicist, with a focus on magnetic reconnection and its many applications and, more broadly, on the dynamics and evolution of plasmas that are not in local thermodynamic equilibrium. He is a collaborator on the Theory and Modeling Team of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission.