Professor van Howe began his physics career as an undergraduate at Augustana College in 1996 but finished his B.A. in physics at University of Chicago in 2001. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He was a visiting scientist at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Montreal, QC in the summers of 2012, 2016 and from 2018-2020 for work on ultrafast and quantum optical signal processing.
In addition to teaching and developing curriculum for undergraduate physics courses and laboratory, he directs research and maintains a laboratory in experimental optics.
