H. M. Thomas

Hubertus M. Thomas received the Diploma from the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, in 1996. Since 1992, he has been with Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany. His research interests are low-temperature plasmas and complex plasmas. He is the responsible scientist for the complex plasma projects PKE-Nefedov and PK-3 Plus, the first- and second-generation laboratories, respectively, continuously operated on the International Space Station since 2001, and he is leading the research group “Experimental Complex Plasmas.”