The GEMEE Mentoring Program
The GEM Encourage & Elevate (GEMEE) Mentoring Program is designed by the GEM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) subcommittee to encourage an intergenerational exchange of professional knowledge, expertise, skills, insights, and experiences with the goal of elevating the career of future GEM scientists.
Under the GEMEE program, mentees can grow their professional network, learn to navigate professional challenges, and build their career path, while mentors can develop effective communication skills, connect with early-career scientists, advance their leadership skills, and gain a broader understanding of their field.
We encourage active participation in the GEMEE mentoring program. Mentors and mentees are expected to have at least two one-to-one meetings: ~1 hour prior to GEM and ~1 hour during or within a month after the meeting. Also, participants are encouraged to join an optional luncheon session for discussing several career agendas with other mentors and mentees in a group setting.
Registration date for Mentees (will open until June 1st, 2024)
For questions, please contact Muhammad Fraz Bashir.
For more details, please check the sample career questions for mentor-mentee meetings.
GEMEE Mentor List 2024
| Mentor Name | Affiliation | Job Title | Preferred Pronouns | Career Status | Primary Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fraz Bashir | UCLA | Assistant Researcher | He/him/his | Early-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Christine Gabrielse | The Aerospace Corporation | Research Scientist | She/her/hers | Early-Career Scientist | M–I Coupling |
| Allison Jaynes | University of Iowa | Associate Professor | She/her/hers | Mid-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Hyunju Connor | NASA GSFC | Research Astrophysicist | She/her/hers | Mid-Career Scientist | M–I Coupling |
| lauren blum | CU Boulder/LASP | Assistant Professor | She/her/hers | Mid-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Jacob Bortnik | UCLA | Professor, Director and Department Chair | He/him/his | Mid-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Wen Li | Boston University | Associate Professor | She/her/hers | Mid-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Man Hua | UCLA | Postdoc | She/her/hers | Early-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Chia-Lin Huang | NSF | Program Officer | She/her/hers | Mid-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Hong Zhao | Auburn University | Assistant professor | She/her/hers | Early-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Jay Albert | Air Force Research Lab | Senior Research Physicist | He/him/his | Senior Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Roman Gomez | Southwest Research Institute | Lead Scientist | He/him/his | Mid-Career Scientist | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction |
| Justin H. Lee | The Aerospace Corporation | Research Scientist | He/him/his | Early-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Brian Walsh | Boston University | Professor | He/him/his | Mid-Career Scientist | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction |
| Jason Beedle | University of New Hampshire | Research Scientist II | Prefer not to answer | Early-Career Scientist | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction |
| Yihua Zheng | NASA/GSFC | Research Astrophysicist | She/her/hers | Senior Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Kevin Pham | National Center for Atmospheric Research | Project Scientist | He/him/his | Mid-Career Scientist | Global System Modeling (GSM) |
| Kun Zhang | UCLA | Assistant Researcher | She/her/hers | Early-Career Scientist | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction |
| Jimmy Raeder | UNH | Professor emeritus | Prefer not to answer | Senior Scientist | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction |
| Banafsheh Ferdousi | AFRL | Senior Research Scientist | She/her/hers | Early-Career Scientist | M–I Coupling |
| Agnit Mukhopadhyay | MathWorks, Inc.; University of Michigan | Sr. Software Engineer for Mapping and Geospatial Visualization | He/him/his | Early-Career Scientist | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Margaret Chen | The Aerospace Corporation | Senior Scientist | She/her/hers | Senior Scientist | M–I Coupling |
| Xiangning Chu | LASP | Research Associate | He/him/his | Early-Career Scientist | Machine Learning |
| Mike Liemohn | University of Michigan | Professor | He/him/his | Senior Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Mike Shumko | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | Postdoc | He/him/his | Early-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Cristian Ferradas | NASA GSFC / CUA | Research Associate | He/him/his | Early-Career Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Xin An | UCLA | Assistant Researcher | He/him/his | Early-Career Scientist | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS) |
| Vania Jordanova | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Senior Scientist | She/her/hers | Senior Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere |
| Francesca Di Mare | New Mexico Consortium/NASA GSFC | Associate Research Scientist | She/her/hers | Early-Career scientist | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction |
| Gian Luca Delzanno | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Scientist- technical staff member | He/him/his | Senior Scientist | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) |
| Tony Rogers | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Postdoctoral Research Associate | He/him/his | Early-Career scientist | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS) |
| Jiang Liu | UCLA | Associate Researcher | He/him/his | Mid-Career Scientist | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS) |
| Sarah Vines | SwRI | Lead Scientist | She/her/hers | Early-Career scientist | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Evan Tyler | The College of Saint Scholastica | Associate Professor | He/him/his | Early-Career scientist | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPSl) |
| Hava Turkakin | Utica University | Assistant Professor | She/her/hers | Early-Career scientist | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS) |