Jordan Steckloff

Dr. Jordan Steckloff received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, Economics, and German from the University of Michigan in 2009. He later received his Master of Science degree in Physics from Purdue University in 2012. Dr. Steckloff served on the Federal Relations Subcommittee of the American Astronomical Society – Division of Planetary Science from 2012 to 2015. In 2015, he received his Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University for his dissertation entitled “On the Interaction of Sublimating Gases with Cometary Bodies.” He later worked as a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology starting in January of 2017, and began a second postdoctoral position in January of 2018 at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Steckloff is also active in the physics education research community, and currently serves on the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Committee on Space Science and Astronomy. He also lectured introductory physics within the University of Michigan system. Dr. Steckloff joined the Plantary Science Institute in 2016, and was promoted to Research Scientist in 2018.