As the daughter of two teachers, Dr. Kloosterman grew up in a household that values education and the life-long pursuit of knowledge. She enjoys learning from her students as much as teaching them. She completed her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2014 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ and then worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA on a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship until joining the engineering and physics faculties at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, IN in 2017. She started as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly in 2024 and her research interest is in developing Terahertz technology to the study star formation process and the lifecycle of the Interstellar Medium in the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies. Her work includes the design, build, and integration of several multi-pixel ground-based and balloon-based heterodyne instruments that utilize solid state local oscillators, quantum cascade lasers, superconducting detectors, low noise amplifiers, and CMOS and FPGA-based spectrometers.
