Palmyra Catravas

Palma Catravas is a faculty member in the ECE Department at Union College.  Previously, she worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the area of electron beam diagnostics for plasma based accelerators and ultrashort radiation sources. At Union, in addition to traditional Electrical Engineering courses, she works at the interface of Electrical Engineering and Music, runs Phasor Lab, and has received a patent on a signal processing technique based on music visualization. Recent musical activities include guest performances with the Musicians of Ma’alwyck and duo piano performances with her brother Nicolas.