Sophia Gershman

Sophia Gershman is the VP for Technology for A. Belkind & Associates, LLC and a full-time teacher at Watchung Hills Regional High School in Warren, NJ. She received her Ph.D. in plasma physics from Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise and special interests include low-temperature plasma, solid state physics, and spectroscopy. S. Gershman is the Master Teacher and long term collaborator at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. She served on the Physical Sciences Design Team, National Research Council National Academy of Sciences.

She is a member of APS, AAPT, and AAAS and active in promoting the success of women and minorities in STEM careers.

Recent Publications (not including the popular articles):

1. S. Gershmana and A. Belkind, Time-resolved processes in a pulsed electrical discharge in argon bubbles in water, Eur. Phys. J. D 60 (2010) 661-69.
2. O. Mozgina, A. Koutsospyros, S. Gershman, A. Belkind, C. Christodoulatos, and K. Becker, "Decomposition of Energetic Compounds by Pulsed Electrical Discharges in Gas-Bubbled Aqueous Solutions", IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 37, 905-910 (2009).
3. S. Gershman, A. Belkind, and K. Becker, Optical emission diagnostics of the plasma channel in a pulsed electrical discharge in a gas bubble, IEEE Transactions Pulsed Power, Pulsed Power Conference, (2009) 838-843.
4. Hausmann, R.G.M., T.J. Nokes, K. VanLehn, S. Gershman, 2009, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
5. S. Gershman, Pulsed Electrical Discharge in Gas Bubbles in Water, Ph.D. Thesis, (2008), Rutgers University.
6. K. Karpi?ska, A. Malinowski, Marta Z. Cieplak, S. Guha, S. Gershman, G. Kotliar, T. Sko?kiewicz, W. Plesiewicz, M. Berkowski, and P. Lindenfeld, Magnetic-Field Induced Superconductor-Insulator Transition in the La2-xSrxCuO4 System, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, (1996) 3033-3036.