{"id":9048,"date":"2020-09-08T16:59:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/?page_id=9048"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:37:51","slug":"space-physics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/research\/space-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty Conducting Research in Space Physics<\/h2>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

planetary atmospheres, UV astrophysics, FUV instruments for remote observations<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n<\/td>\nResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

space physics, space weather, magnetospheric dynamics, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and aurora<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

space plasma waves, Earth\u2019s magnetospheric physics, solar-wind magnetosphere coupling, energetic particle precipitation, Jovian magnetosphere and aurora<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

ionospheric physics, space physics, thermosphere\/ionosphere plasma irregularities<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

space physics, planetary atmospheres, observations and models<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

aurora, magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere interaction at Earth; GPS scintillation and position error<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
<\/p>\n

Research Scientists Conducting Studies
\nin Space Physics<\/h2>\n

<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Jeffrey Baumgardner<\/a><\/h3>\n

Senior Research Scientist<\/small>
\n(Center for Space Physics<\/i><\/strong><\/small>)\n<\/td>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong>
\ndesigning and building low-light-level imaging instruments, and their scientific application to the aeronomy of Earth and solar system bodies<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n
\n

Yakov Dimant<\/a><\/h3>\n

Senior Research Scientist<\/small>
\n(Center for Space Physics<\/i><\/strong><\/small>)\n<\/td>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong>
\ntheoretical 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<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n
\n

Steven Smith<\/a><\/h3>\n

Senior Research Scientist<\/small>
\n(Center for Space Physics<\/i><\/strong><\/small>)\n<\/td>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong>
\nimaging and study of gravity-wave activity in the night-time mesosphere, imaging and study of the lunar sodium tail<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n
\n

Bertalan Zieger<\/a><\/h3>\n

Senior Research Scientist<\/small>
\n(Center for Space Physics<\/i><\/strong><\/small>)\n<\/td>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong>
\nspace weather and space climate, the coupled interaction of the solar wind with planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

 
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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: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7810,"featured_media":0,"parent":8676,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9048"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12139,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9048\/revisions\/12139"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}