Pankaj KumarResearch Associate Professor
American University &
Heliophysics Science Division
Space Weather Lab, Code 674, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Email: pankaj.kumar@nasa.gov, kumarp@american.edu
Research Interests:
Initiation of solar eruptions (CMEs/Flares, Jets), Magnetic reconnection & particle acceleration, Coronal waves/oscillation, Quasiperiodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flares
Positions/Employment:
Research Associate Professor [Sep. 2022-present]
American University/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Research Assistant Professor [April 2020-Aug. 2022]
American University/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
NASA Postdoctoral (NPP) Fellow [April 2017-March 2020]
NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Senior Researcher [April 2014-March 2017]
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, South Korea
Postdoctoral Fellow [Dec 2010-March 2014]
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, South Korea
Research Fellow [June 2006-Dec 2010]
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital, India
Education:
Ph.D. : Solar Physics, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital-India, 2011
M.Phil. : Physics, CCS University, Meerut (UP), India, 2006
B.Ed. : Physics and Mathematics, K.V. College Machara, CCS University, Meerut (UP), India, 2005
M.Sc. : Physics, Meerut College, CCS University, Meerut (UP), India, 2004
B.Sc. : Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Meerut College, CCS University, Meerut (UP), India, 2002
Awards:
- NSF SHINE (Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment) research grant 2022, Role: PI
- NASA HSD (Heliophysics Science Division) peer award 2021
- NASA HGI (Heliophysics Guest Investigator) grant 2018, Role: PI
- NPP (NASA Postdoctoral Program) fellowship 2016
- KASI Best Postdoc Award 2013
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
- Research Fellowship at Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, India, 2006-2010
- CSIR-NET (National Eligibility Test 2006)
- JEST (Joint Entrance Screening Test 2006)