Keynote Speaker: Dr. Matina Gkioulidou
Location
Student Union Event Center
Start Date
12-3-2026 9:30 AM
End Date
12-3-2026 10:15 AM
Description
Dr. Matina Gkioulidou is a heliophysicist with expertise that spans different regions in space, from geomagnetic storms causing hazardous space weather, to our heliosphere’s interactions with the local interstellar medium. Her research focuses on experimental space physics, including data analysis from space missions and energetic particle instrumentation. She got her bachelor’s degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and her Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is currently the Project Scientist and Co-Investigator (Co-I) of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, exploring our heliosphere. She also led the development of the IMAP-Ultra Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) imager, mapping our heliosphere’s interaction with the local interstellar medium. She is the Deputy Instrument Scientist for the JENI instrument on the European Space Agency’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, set to provide ENA images of Jupiter’s magnetosphere for the very first time. In the past she was Co-I of the RBSPICE instrument onboard NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission, investigating the geomagnetic storm-time ring current development and ionospheric outflow.
Dr. Gkioulidou has served as a member of the NSF’s Geospace Environment Modeling Steering (GEM) Committee, NASA’s Living With a Star Program Analysis Group (LPAG), and NASA’s Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC), and she is currently a member of NASA’s Heliophysics Technology Program Analysis Group (H-TPAG).
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Matina Gkioulidou
Student Union Event Center
Dr. Matina Gkioulidou is a heliophysicist with expertise that spans different regions in space, from geomagnetic storms causing hazardous space weather, to our heliosphere’s interactions with the local interstellar medium. Her research focuses on experimental space physics, including data analysis from space missions and energetic particle instrumentation. She got her bachelor’s degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and her Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is currently the Project Scientist and Co-Investigator (Co-I) of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, exploring our heliosphere. She also led the development of the IMAP-Ultra Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) imager, mapping our heliosphere’s interaction with the local interstellar medium. She is the Deputy Instrument Scientist for the JENI instrument on the European Space Agency’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, set to provide ENA images of Jupiter’s magnetosphere for the very first time. In the past she was Co-I of the RBSPICE instrument onboard NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission, investigating the geomagnetic storm-time ring current development and ionospheric outflow.
Dr. Gkioulidou has served as a member of the NSF’s Geospace Environment Modeling Steering (GEM) Committee, NASA’s Living With a Star Program Analysis Group (LPAG), and NASA’s Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC), and she is currently a member of NASA’s Heliophysics Technology Program Analysis Group (H-TPAG).