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Silvina Guidoni Assistant Professor Physics

Degrees
Postdoctoral studies at NASA Goddard Space Flight center, Greenbelt, MD.
Ph.D. in Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
Master of Science in Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
Honors BS in Physics, Mar del Plata National University, Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Bio
Ph.D. in Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
Master of Science in Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
Honors BS in Physics, Mar del Plata National University, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Professor Silvina Guidoni is a theoretical and computational heliophysicist who focuses on the study of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the most powerful bursts in the solar system). These solar eruptions may influence the performance of technology we use on Earth and play a major role in Space Weather (the variable conditions on the sun, sun’s atmosphere, and Earth's magnetosphere).

Professor Guidoni studies magnetic reconnection, physical processes of reconnected plasma, and particle acceleration. She runs and analyzes simulations of solar eruptions using parallelized computer programs run on supercomputers. She also has analyzed data from several NASA missions (i.e., Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO), and Hinode).

She has served as a member of NASA and NSF proposal review panels and as a peer reviewer for the Nature Astronomy Journal, Astrophysical Journal, the Astrophysical Journal Letters journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, and the Solar Physics journal. She is a regular session organizer for NSF’s National Solar Heliospheric and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE) Workshop.

When she is not thinking about equations, programming, or the vastness of space, she practices TaiChi, an activity she has enjoyed from more than two decades.
See Also
My article on Space Weather in the American University magazine
My Google Scholar profile
My website with Heliophysics resources and more
Solar eclipse and Heliophysics talk (in Spanish)
Article: undergraduate research project I co-mentored wins STEM prize.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

Teaching

Spring 2021

  • PHYS-380 Math & Computational Physics

Fall 2021

  • PHYS-430 Classical Mechanics

  • PHYS-480 Physics Capstone Seminar