• Research Assistant Professor
• Room 209
• Phone: 401.874.2104
• Email: jaewoong.jung@uri.edu

Biography

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

Research

Study geospace physics, focusing on the soft X-ray emissions from Earths’ magnetospheric system. Relevant topics include:
• Solar wind charge exchange
• Exosphere modeling
• Magnetosheath dynamics

Education

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

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)