Pankaj Kumar

Research 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)