Steve Desch

Associate Professor, Astrophysics

School of Earth and Space Exploration

Arizona State University

Contact Information

School of Earth and Space Exploration

PO Box 871404, Tempe AZ, 85287-1404

Phone: (480) 965-7742

Fax: (480) 965-8102

E-mail: steve.desch a t asu.edu

Positions

2009-Present, Associate Professor, Arizona State University

2003-2009, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

2000-2003, Carnegie Fellow / NASA Astrobiology Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,

Carnegie Institution of Washington

1998-2000, National Research Council / National Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow,

NASA Ames Research Center

Education

PhD, Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1998

MS, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 1992

MS, Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1991

BS, Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990

Honors & Awards

2003 Nier Prize of the Meteoritical Society

Students Graduated

Melissa Morris (PhD 2009)

Miriam Riner (PhD 2008)

Nic Ouellette (PhD 2008)

Jason Cook (PhD 2007)

Melissa Morris (MS 2006)

Publications