Janet Scheel

Janet D. Scheel is an American physicist whose research concerns pattern formation and turbulence in Rayleigh–Bénard convection.^[1] She is Ezra Frederick Scattergood Professor of Physics at Occidental College, and chair of the Department of Physics at Occidental.^[2]

Scheel majored in physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1991. After a 1994 master's degree at Cornell University,^[3] she completed a Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 2007, with the dissertation Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection,^[3][4] supervised by Michael C. Cross.^[4]

She taught at California Lutheran University before moving to Occidental College in 2008. In 2008, she was a recipient of a Cottrell College Science Award from the Research Corporation.^[5]