Mark Moldwin

Mark Moldwin is a Professor of Space Sciences within the University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences within the College of Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty of UM in July of 2009, Dr. Moldwin was a Professor of Space Physics at UCLA (2000-2009), Professor Physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne (1994-2000) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Space and Atmospheric Sciences and Non-proliferation and International Security groups at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Moldwin joined the lab in 1992 after receiving his Ph.D. in Astronomy/Space Physics from Boston University. He was awarded a B.A. in Physics with Honors from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1987. Dr. Moldwin's primary research interests are magnetospheric and heliospheric plasma physics, and pre-college space science education and outreach. He has published over 125 refereed scientific articles on these subjects. Dr. Moldwin was a NASA/ASEE Kennedy Space Center Faculty Fellow, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Associated Western Universities Faculty Fellow, and a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visiting Scientist. Prof. Moldwin is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner and a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar. Prof. Moldwin is or has been the principal or co-investigator of over 45 externally peer-reviewed scientific projects including building the magnetometers to fly on NASA's Space Technology - 5 satellites, the upcoming Air Force DSX mission satellite, and ground-based magnetometer deployment in North America, South America, Africa and Antarctica. Prof. Moldwin has taught over a dozen different physics and space science courses, was awarded Florida Tech's Teaching Excellence Award, UCLA's Academic Senate's Distinguished Teaching Award and was rated as a Top Ten Professor by the Associated Student's of UCLA.