Yi-Jiun Su, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington
Now at Air Force Research Laboratory/RVBXP, Hanscom/AFB, MA 01731


Experience

November 24, 2008 – present
Senior Research Physicist, The Space Weather Group, Hanscom Air Force Research Laboratory

November 16, 2008 – May 31, 2009
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington. 

September 1, 2005 – November 15, 2008
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington

May-August 2007
Visiting Research Scientist, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
    *Studied the characteristics of low-energy ions observed by the SWAP instrument during the New Horizon Jupiter’s magnetotail flyby.

November 1, 2000 - August 19, 2005
Research Scientist II, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
    *Studied Jovian magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling.
    *Studied particle acceleration by Alfvén waves.
    *Analyzed FAST data in the cusp and the polar cap boundary region.
    *Organized the weekly magnetospheric group meeting.

August 17, 1998 - October 20, 2000
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Space and Atmospheric Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
    *Studied the fate of eroded plasmaspheric material by geosynchronous (MPAs) and polar satellites (Hyperboloid/Interball and TIDE/Polar).
    *Survey of the plasmasphere refilling at geosynchronous orbit.
    *Studied geomagnetic storm events with MPAs.

August 22, 1994 - July 24, 1998
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    *Survey of the polar wind with TIDE/PSI on the POLAR satellite.
    *Development of a coupled fluid-semikinetic model for investigating ionosphere-magnetosphere plasma transport.

August 1, 1993 - July 31, 1994
Research Assistant & System Manager of Computer Lab., Institute of Space Sciences, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
    *Simulation of solitons and rotational discontinuities from compressed Alfven waves.
    *Management of IBM UNIX, Macintosh, and PC Novell systems.

February 1, 1992 - July 31, 1993
Graduate Research Assistant, Institute of Space Sciences, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
    *Simulation of rotational discontinuities using the hybrid model


Scientific Community Service

 

Review Proposals

2007

NASA Heliosphere Guest Investigator Program (HGIP) review panel: 6 proposals

NSF/Collaborative in Mathematical Geosciences(CMG): 1 proposal

Israel Science Foundation: 1 proposal

2006

NASA Geospace Science Supporting Research and Technology (SR&T): 2 proposals

NSF/GEM review panel: 5 proposals

2005

NASA SR&T Panel: 8 proposals

2004

NASA Low-Cost Access to Space: 1 proposal

NASA SR&T: 1 proposal

2003

NASA Guest Investigator (GI) Panel: 7 proposals

NSF: 1 proposal

2002

NASA GI Panel: 8 proposals

2001

NASA SR&T: 1 proposal

 

Review Papers

2007

1 paper of J. Geophys. Res. (JGR)

1 paper of Geophys. Res. Lett. (GRL)

2006

1 JGR paper

2005

1 GRL paper

1 JGR paper

2004

2 JGR papers

1 paper of J. Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Phys. (JASTP)

2003

3 JGR papers

1 GRL paper

2001

1 paper of Nature

2 papers of COSPAR conference proceeding

2000

1 GRL paper

1 JASTP Paper

1999

1 GRL paper

 

American Geophysical Union (AGU) service:

2007: Served in the committee of the AGU Scarf Award (for the best Ph.D. dissertation).

2001: Served as a judge of the AGU best student paper award.

1999: Served as a judge of the AGU best student paper award.