Jaewoong Jung

  • Research Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 401.874.2104
  • Email: jaewoong.jung@uri.edu
  • Office Location: East Hall, Rm 209

Biography

Oct 2024-Present: Research Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island
2022-2024: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Research

Study of geospace physics, focusing on the soft X-ray emissions from Earth’s magnetospheric system. Relevant topics include:

  • Solar wind charge exchange
  • Exosphere modeling
  • Magnetosheath dynamics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2022
  • B.S. in Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2017

Selected Publications

Jung, J., Connor, H. K., Dimmock, A. P., Sembay, A. M., Read, A., & Soucek, J. (2023). Mshpy23: A user-friendly, parameterized model of magnetosheath conditions. Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 89–104. DOI: 10.26464/epp2023065

Jung, J., Connor, H. K., Carter, J. A., Koutroumpa, D., Pagani, C., & Kuntz, K. D. (2022). Solar minimum exospheric neutral density near the subsolar magnetopause estimated from the XMM soft X‐ray observations on 12 November 2008. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127(3), e2021JA029676. DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029676

Additional Infomation:

  • Heliophysics Science Division Peer Award, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (August 2024)
  • Co-Investigator on NASA ROSES HTMS program grant, NASA (October 2023 – September 2026)
  • Doctoral Student Fellowship / Assistantship, University of Fairbanks Alaska (2017 – 2022)