Women+ in Plasma Physics Reception

Our speaker will be Prof. Allison Jaynes, this years’ winner of the Katherine E. Weimer Award.



Bio: Associate Professor Allison Jaynes’ research focuses on the aurora, the inner magnetosphere, and the radiation belts and how those regions of geospace connect to atmospheric physics. She joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 2017 after receiving a PhD from the University of New Hampshire and working as a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been a Co-Investigator on the Voyager and Van Allen Probes NASA satellite missions, as well as an Instrument Team Member on NASA’s MMS satellite mission. She is the recipient of the AGU James B. Macelwane Medal and the APS Katherine E. Weimer award. She is currently serving as a member of the National Academies Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey Steering Committee tasked with drafting the priorities for the next decade of research in the field. She previously served as Co-Chair of the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) Science and Technology Definitions Team for NASA. She was awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2020. Prof. Jaynes is currently advising five PhD students, and a number of other researchers, and was a recipient of the University of Iowa Dean’s Scholar award in 2022 and the Mid-Career Faculty Scholar award in 2023. Prof. Jaynes received the named F. Wendell Miller professorship in 2023. She leads a summer school for undergraduates on spaceflight hardware to observe Earth and space (The Edge of Space Academy). She is deeply committed to equity and inclusion in STEM, and is passionate about promoting active learning and positive team dynamics.