Penny Slocum

Penny received her Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Virginia.  After the Ph.D. she worked as a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA to analyze spacecraft data from solar energetic particle measurements.  She then transitioned to the aerospace industry in El Segundo, CA to work on instrument development and analysis for suborbital sounding rocket campaigns.  Since returning to the Eastern U.S. and arriving at Yale, she has worked on RF detection measurements and simulation.  In her free time she can be found running or spending time near the water.