Daniel Lathrop is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research focuses on turbulent fluid flows, geomagnetism, and experiments on superfluid helium. Dr. Lathrop received a B.A. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. He served at Yale University as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer, and as Assistant Professor at Emory University. He joined the University of Maryland in 1997, the year he received a Presidential Early Career Award from the NSF.