Faculty Conducting Research in Space Physics

Research Interests:

planetary atmospheres, UV astrophysics, FUV instruments for remote observations
Research Interests:

star-terrestrial planet interactions in our solar system and beyond; magnetic reconnection and turbulence; wave-particle interaction; physics-informed machine learning; high intensity laser-plasma interaction
Research Interests:

space physics, space weather, magnetospheric dynamics, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and aurora
Research Interests:

space plasma waves, Earth’s magnetospheric physics, solar-wind magnetosphere coupling, energetic particle precipitation, Jovian magnetosphere and aurora
Research Interests:

ionospheric physics, space physics, thermosphere/ionosphere plasma irregularities
Research Interests:

space physics, planetary atmospheres, observations and models
Research Interests:

modeling and observations of planetary atmospheres, with a focus on the upper atmospheres of the giant planets and on the coupling between atmospheres and the space environment
Research Interests:

computational and theoretical plasma physics in space and astrophysics; interaction of the solar system with the interstellar medium; solar wind; shocks in the lower corona, T-Tauri and solar-like stars
Research Interests:

computational and theoretical space plasma physics, dynamics of the ionosphere and solar atmosphere, particle-wave interactions in plasmas, physics of meteor trails

Research Scientists Conducting Studies
in Space Physics

Jeffrey Baumgardner

Senior Research Scientist
(Center for Space Physics)

Research Interests:
designing and building low-light-level imaging instruments, and their scientific application to the aeronomy of Earth and solar system bodies

Yakov Dimant

Senior Research Scientist
(Center for Space Physics)

Research Interests:
theoretical studies of plasma instabilities at the lower ionosphere and related macroscopic phenomena, theory and simulations of meteor plasma and related phenomena, ionosphere-Magnetosphere coupling through anomalous conductivity, theoretical studies of plasma instabilities at the solar chromosphere

Steven Smith

Senior Research Scientist
(Center for Space Physics)

Research Interests:
imaging and study of gravity-wave activity in the night-time mesosphere, imaging and study of the lunar sodium tail

Bertalan Zieger

Senior Research Scientist
(Center for Space Physics)

Research Interests:
space weather and space climate, the coupled interaction of the solar wind with planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres