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.
For questions, please contact Muhammad Fraz Bashir.
For more details, please check the sample career questions for mentor-mentee meetings.
Here is the list of GEMEE mentors for GEM 2023
| Name | Institution | Job Title | Pronouns | Career Status | Research Area 1 | Research Area 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Gabrielse | The Aerospace Corporation | Research Scientist | She/her | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS, previously known as Tail) |
| Yihua Zheng | NASA/GSFC | Research Astrophysicist | She/her | Senior Scientist (More than 20 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS), Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) | Global System Modeling (GSM, previously known as GGCM) |
| Jacob Bortnik | UCLA | Professor | He/him | Mid-Career Scientist (10 – 20 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC), Machine learning |
| Wen Li | Boston University | Associate Professor | She/her | Mid-Career Scientist (10 – 20 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Comparative magnetospheric physics |
| Gian Luca Delzanno | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Scientist | He/him | Senior Scientist (More than 20 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Global System Modeling (GSM, previously known as GGCM) |
| Hong Zhao | Auburn University | Assistant professor | She/her | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Brian Walsh | Boston University | Associate Professor | He/him | Mid-Career Scientist (10 – 20 years after PhD) | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction (SWMI, previously known as Dayside) | Global System Modeling (GSM, previously known as GGCM) |
| Justin Lee | The Aerospace Corporation | Senior Research Staff | He/him | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction (SWMI, previously known as Dayside) |
| Jimmy Raeder | UNH | Professor | No preference | Senior Scientist (More than 20 years after PhD) | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction (SWMI, previously known as Dayside) | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS, previously known as Tail) |
| Allison Jaynes | University of Iowa | Associate Professor | She/her | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Xiaojia Zhang | The University of Texas at Dallas | Associate Professor | She/her | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Cristian Ferradas | NASA GSFC and Catholic University of America | Research Associate | He/him | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Alexander Drozdov | UCLA | Associate Researcher | He/him, My name | Mid-Career Scientist (10 – 20 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | |
| Solène Lejosne | University of California, Berkeley | Associate researcher | She/her | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Hyunju Connor | NASA GSFC | Research Astrophysicist | She/her | Mid-Career Scientist (10 – 20 years after PhD) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction (SWMI, previously known as Dayside) |
| Chia-Lin Huang | NSF | Program director | She/her | Mid-Career Scientist (10 – 20 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction (SWMI, previously known as Dayside) |
| Adam Kellerman | UCLA | Associate Researcher | He/him | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS, previously known as Tail) |
| Agnit Mukhopadhyay | The MathWorks Inc. | Senior Developer – Mapping and Geospatial Visualization | He/him, They/them | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Global System Modeling (GSM, previously known as GGCM), Geospatial Visualization | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Evan Tyler | College of Saint Scholastica | Assistant Professor of Physics | He/him | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS, previously known as Tail) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) |
| Matthew Cooper | New Jersey Institute of Technology | Assistant Research Professor | He/him | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Tsige | University of Michigan | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | She/her | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction (SWMI, previously known as Dayside), Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | |
| Ryan Dewey | University of Michigan | Assistant Research Scientist | He/him | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS, previously known as Tail) | Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Interaction (SWMI, previously known as Dayside) |
| Muhammad Fraz Bashir | University of California Los Angeles | Assistant Researcher | He/him | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) | |
| Luisa Capannolo | Boston University | Research Scientist | She/her | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | |
| Tony Rogers | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Postdoctoral Research Associate | He/him | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) |
| Mike Shumko | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | Postdoc | He/him | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Vania Jordanova | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Scientist | She/her | Senior Scientist (More than 20 years after PhD) | Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS) | Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) |
| Bashi Ferdousi | UNH | Research assitant professor | She/her | Early-Career scientist (within 10 years after PhD) | Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS, previously known as Tail), Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) | Global System Modeling (GSM, previously known as GGCM) |