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, turbulence, wave–particle interactions, and collisionless shocks; physics-informed machine learning and AI for Science; laboratory astrophysics and high-intensity laser–plasma interactions |
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Wen Li
Associate Professor;
Director of Graduate Studies -
Carlos Martinis
Research Associate Professor
| 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 |
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Toshi Nishimura
Associate Professor;
Director of Graduate Admissions -
Merav Opher
Professor;
Director, SHIELD NASA DRIVE Center
| Research Interests:
aurora, magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere interaction at Earth; GPS scintillation and position error |
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; plasma-radio wave interactions; the physics of meteors |
Senior Research Scientists
Conducting Studies in Space Physics
Jeffrey Baumgardner
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Yakov Dimant
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Marianna Felici
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| Research Interests: designing and building low-light-level imaging instruments, and their scientific application to the aeronomy of Earth and solar system bodies |
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 |
Research Interests: ionospheric structure; giant planet magnetospheres; magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; ion composition and distribution in planetary magnetospheres; detectors plasma/particle detectors in space physics |
Nicholas Gross
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Qianli Ma
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Majd Mayyasi
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| Research Interests: resonant wave-particle interactions in Earth and Jupiter’s magnetospheres; transport, acceleration, precipitation, and decay of energetic electrons in the radiation belts; global distributions, properties, and impacts of whistler-mode plasma waves in planetary magnetospheres |
Research Interests: atmospheric/exospheric escape from planets, moons, and comets, characterizing the Martian atmosphere as it pertains to water and human habitability, and designing space instrumentation that can enable further exploration |
Bartholomeus Van Der Holst
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Steven Smith
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Liang Wang
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| Research Interests: imaging and study of gravity-wave activity in the night-time mesosphere, imaging and study of the lunar sodium tail |
Bertalan Zieger
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| Research Interests: space weather and space climate, the coupled interaction of the solar wind with planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres |
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