Mailing Address:
Institute for Research in
Electronics and Applied Physics
A.V. Williams Bldg., Room 3319
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
20742-3511

Phone: (301) 405-1594
Email: dpl at complex.umd.edu
FAX: (301) 314-9437

Academic Appointment:
Department of Physics, IREAP
Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology
Department of Geology

Dr. Lathrop received the B.A. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, and the Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. He joined the University of Maryland in 1997 and was a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation that same year. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2005) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012).

His current research interests include magnetorotational instability, turbulent dissipation, magnetoturbulence and dynamos, strongly nonlinear surface waves, ingassing in breaking waves, and chaotic light-scattering.

Related websites:
Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory