Janet Scheel
American physicist
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Janet D. Scheel is an American physicist whose research concerns pattern formation and turbulence in Rayleigh–Bénard convection.[1] She is Ezra Frederick Scattergood Professor of Physics at Occidental College, and chair of the Department of Physics at Occidental.[2]
Scheel majored in physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1991. After a 1994 master's degree at Cornell University,[3] she completed a Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 2007, with the dissertation Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection,[3][4] supervised by Michael C. Cross.[4]
She taught at California Lutheran University before moving to Occidental College in 2008. In 2008, she was a recipient of a Cottrell College Science Award from the Research Corporation.[5]