Rhonda Stroud

Rhonda Stroud
Rhonda Stroud
	Rhonda Stroud
Born	Rochester, NY
Alma mater	Cornell University ; California Institute of Technology ; Washington University in St. Louis
	Scientific career
Fields	materials physics, planetary science
Institutions	Naval Research Laboratory ; Arizona State University ;

Rhonda M. Stroud (born 1971)^[1] is a materials physicist and planetary scientist at Arizona State University, where she serves as Director of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies.^[2] From 1998- 2022, she was a Research Physicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory, where she led the Nanoscale Materials Section.^[3] She is known for her research on nanostructures, including quasicrystals and aerogel,^[4] and on the materials that make up comets^[5] and cosmic dust.^[6]^[7] She pioneered the use of focused ion beam technology in the study of meteorites.^[8]

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