Professional Research Experience
Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute, 2023-present
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Space Physics, Boston University, 2021-March 2024
NSF Atsmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (AGS-PRF), Center for Space Physics, Boston University, 2016-2018
Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Scientist (2014-2016, 2018-2021), Center for Space Physics, Boston University
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Comparative Planetary Magnetospheres, University of Leicester, UK, 2012-2014
Graduate Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006-2012
Education
Ph.D., Geophysics & Space Physics - University of California, Los Angeles, 2012 (thesis: The Structure and Dynamics of Jupiter's Magnetosphere, advisor Prof. Margaret G. Kivelson)
M.S., Geophysics & Space Physics - University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
S.B., Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
S.B., Physics - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
Honors, Awards, and Other Recognition
Top Cited Article 2021-2022, AGU Advances, Bonfond et al., “Are dawn storms Jupiter’s auroral substorms”
NASA Group Achievement Award, as part of the MAVEN Radio Occultation Science Experiment (ROSE) instrument team, 2019
Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Geophysical Research Letters, 2019
Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Geophysical Research Letters, 2018
NASA Group Achievement Award, as part of the MAVEN science team, 2018
Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Geophysical Research Letters, 2017
NASA Early Career Fellowship, 2017 (selected)
NASA Group Achievement Award, as part of the MAVEN science team, 2016
NASA Robert H. Goddard (RHG) Exceptional Achievement for Science award, as part of the MAVEN science team, 2016
Prix Baron Nicolet, awarded to a distinguished researcher under the age of 40 in the field of aeronomy, from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, 2012
Outstanding Student Paper, Fall 2010 meeting of the American Geophysical Union, poster titled “Relating Jupiter’s auroral features to magnetospheric sources”
Outstanding Student Paper, Fall 2008 meeting of the American Geophysical Union, talk “Reconnection and flows in the Jovian magnetotail as inferred from magnetometer observations”