#  Joel Parks, PhD 

Rowland Senior Fellow, 1981 - 2016

(b. 1936 – d. 2024)

 

 

 



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Joel Parks’ past research projects in the Trapped Ion Dynamics Group were designed to study the structural dynamics of nanoscale gas-phase species including small metal clusters and biomolecules, by making diffraction measurements of metal cluster symmetry and probing using fluorescence the dynamics and interactions of biomolecules.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Cohort Year(s)
    
     [2016](/cohort-year/2016)
- ## Role
    
     [Former Senior Fellow](/role/former-senior-fellow)