Brian S Woodard

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2012.
• Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2004.
• Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2001.

Academic Positions

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2012 - December 2013.

Research Interests

• High-Energy Lasers
• Aerodynamics
• Aircraft icing

Selected Articles in Journals

• B.S. Woodard, J.W. Zimmerman, G.F. Benavides, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, T.H. Field, W.C. Solomon, S.J. Davis, W.T. Rawlins, and S. Lee, "Gain and continuous-wave laser oscillation on the 1315 nm atomic iodine transition pumped by an Air-Helium electric discharge," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 93, 021104 (2008).
• B.S. Woodard, J.W. Zimmerman, G.F. Benavides, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, A.D. Palla, T.H. Field, W.C. Solomon, S. Lee, W.T. Rawlins, and S.J. Davis, "Demonstration of an iodine laser pumped by an air-helium electric discharge," Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 43, 025208 (2010).
• B.S. Woodard, G.F. Benavides, J.W. Zimmerman, D.L. Carroll, A.D. Palla, M.T. Day, J.T. Verdeyen, and W.C. Solomon, "Enhancement of electric oxygen-iodine laser performance using larger mode volume resonators," Optics Letters, Vol 35, 1611 (2010).
• B.S. Woodard, M.T. Day, J.W. Zimmerman, G.F. Benavides, A.D. Palla, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen and W.C. Solomon, “The influence of radio-frequency discharge geometry on O2(a1Δ) production,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol 44, 11 (2011).

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• B.S. Woodard, J.W. Zimmerman, G.F. Benavides, M.T. Day, A.D. Palla, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, and W.C. Solomon, “Investigation of the Production of O2(a1) in Rectangular and Multi-Tube Radio-Frequency Discharges,” AIAA Paper 2010-5040, 2010.
• B.S. Woodard, J.W. Zimmerman, G.F. Benavides, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, A.D. Palla, T.H. Field, W.C. Solomon, S. Lee, W.T. Rawlins, and S.J. Davis, “Demonstration of an iodine laser pumped by an air-helium electric discharge,” LASE 2009 Conference, San Jose, California, 26-27 January 2009, SPIE Vol. 7196, pp. 719606-1-12 (2009).
• B.S. Woodard, J.W. Zimmerman, J.T. Verdeyen, D.L. Carroll, T.H. Field, G.F. Benavides, A.D. Palla, and W.C. Solomon, “Improved production of O2(a1) in transverse radio-frequency discharges,” HPLA 2008 Conference, Taos, NM, 21-24 April 2008, SPIE Vol. 7005, pp. 70051L-1-9 (2008).

Professional Societies

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1999 - present

Teaching Honors

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Spring 2009)

Research Honors

• Best Student Paper Award, AIAA Plasma Dynamics and Laser Conference, 2010