Kyoung-Joo Hwang, Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Heliophysics and Solar System Divisions

GSFC Code:

673.0

Mailing Address:

Heliophysics Division
Building 21, Room
NASA GSFC, Code 673.0
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 286-9115

Fax:

Email:

joohwang@umbc.edu

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Biography:

Dr. Kyoung-Joo Hwang received a B.S. degree from the Korea University in 1996, and a M.S. degree in the field of Space Physics from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science And Technology (KAIST) in 1999. She received a Ph.D. degree in Space Plasma Physics, specialized in the Auroral physics, from Dartmouth College in 2006. She worked two years as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, where she expanded her space physics knowledge both using data analysis and numerical simulations. In October 2008, she joined the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, as a research associate on the MMS pre-launch studies. Her research is focused on the microphysics of a scale length of the electron diffusion region in the magnetic reconnection, using Cluster PEACE data, as well as investigating the global phenomena occurring in the Earth's magnetosphere.