Daniel Mayes - One of WCAPP's newest member, Dan received his Ph.D. December 2020; His dissertation, "Observation and Characterization of Trends in the Ionization of the Warm Absorber Photoionized Plasma Experiment at Z".  As a senior graduate student working with Dr. Roberto Mancini to investigate atomic kinetics in laboratory photoionized plasmas relevant to astrophysics, Dan earned his Ph.D. in December 2020. He earned his B.S. in Physics in 2011 and his M.S. in Physics in 2014 both from the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2014, he was awarded the Regents' Graduate Scholar Award. In addition, Dan was an invited speaker at the 20th International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas.