The Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research and Education is based out of the main campus (Orlando, FL) of the University of Central Florida (UCF) and led by a UCF faculty member with governance by a board consisting of members from both Space Florida and UCF.


Faculty and Staff

Joshua Colwell

Dr. Josh Colwell
CMR Director, Professor
Department of Physics
University of Central Florida
407-823-2012
Faculty website
joshua.colwell@ucf.edu

Daniel Britt

Dr. Dan Britt
Professor
Department of Physics
University of Central Florida
407-823-2600
dbritt@ucf.edu

Adrienne Dove

Dr. Adrienne (Addie) Dove
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
University of Central Florida
407-823-1884
adove@ucf.edu

Dr. Julie Brisset
Post-doctoral Researcher
Department of Physics
University of Central Florida
407-823-3136
julie.brisset@ucf.edu

Doug Maukonen
Systems Engineer
Center for Microgravity Research
University of Central Florida

Dr. Akbar Whizin
Postdoctoral Associate, Planetary Sciences
Center for Microgravity Research
University of Central Florida
akbar.whizin@ucf.edu

Students

The Hawking Center has many student volunteers and employees, both graduates and undergraduates, from many different majors. Students who are currently working in the lab are listed below.

Nicola Alexander Physics

Yeniz Azconovieta Mechanical Engineering

Patrick Baranek Physics

Tyler Cox        Physics & Mathematics

Anthony Meola  Industrial Engineering

Claudia Orozco  Biomedical Sciences

Austin Rothermich Physics

Richard Wakefield  Mechanical Engineering

Madison Weinberg Mechanical Engineering

Former Students

An Honor Roll of former Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Christopher Barsoum

Samuel Benjamin

Kristen Brightwell

Nico Brown

Katie Bullard

Mackenzie Campbell

Ryan Cannon

Steven Darrow

Ashley Desiongco

Matthew Higgins

Gary Hillier

Brad Hoover

Joseph Howard

Meghan Keough

Thais Lage

Kelly Lai

Sara Lane

Thais Machado

Jessican McWaters

Hunter Nagler

Tony Ordonez

Allison Rascon

Merritt Robbins

Eric Robinett

William Santos

Laura Seward

Josh Steele

Chris Stevens

Jeff Strange

Christopher Tiller

Christopher Vamos

Allyson Whitaker