Professor of Physics Mark Koepke has been appointed a Mercator Fellow for 2020. He will collaborate within the Collaborative Research Centre for Low-Pressure Low-Temperature Plasma Science and Engineering with professors Julian Schulze and Peter Awakowicz at the Ruhr University - Bochum in Bochum, Germany.
Koepke will work onsite in Germany for at least one month and continue his project collaboration on WVU's campus. The partnership to date has involved four WVU students and produced two Ph.D. dissertations.