Rhonda Stroud

Rhonda M. Stroud (born 1971) is a materials physicist and planetary scientist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory, where she heads the Nanoscale Materials Section. She is known for her research on nanostructures, including quasicrystals and aerogel, and on the materials that make up comets and cosmic dust. She pioneered the use of focused ion beam technology in the study of meteorites.
Education and career.
Stroud graduated from Cornell University in 1991 and completed a Ph.D. in 1996 at Washington University in St. Louis. She joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1996 as a postdoctoral researcher, and two years later obtained a permanent position there as a staff scientist.
She served as president of the Microanalysis Society for 2018–2020.
Recognition.
Stroud was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010.
She is also a fellow of the Meteoritical Society. Asteroid 8468 Rhondastroud was named after her in 2012.