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Jamie Jasinski

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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

Curriculum Vitae:

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Planetary Interiors and Geophysics

Biography

Jamie Jasinski is a space plasma physicist at JPL. Jamie investigates how the local space plasma environment of a planetary body affects its magnetosphere, exosphere, atmosphere and surface. He has published discoveries at a variety of planetary bodies in the solar system including Mercury using NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, and the Outer Planets using data from NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn and Voyager 2 at Uranus and Neptune. Jamie’s research also includes understanding the possible plasma conditions at exoplanets.

Education

  • PhD in Space Plasma Physics, UCL (2015)
  • MSci in Astrophysics, UCL (2011)

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2017 – present)
    • Scientist (2020 – present)
    • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, JPL (2017 – 2020)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan (2015-2017)

Community Service

  • Convener of the Uranus Flagship Workshop 2023: Pasadena, CA, USA, July 2023.
  • Journal Reviewer: Nature Astronomy, Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research, Icarus, Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), Planetary Science Journal and Annales Geophysicae.
  • Proposal Reviewer: NASA NSPIRES Solicitations; UK STFC Consolidated Grants.

Research Interests

  • Solar wind interaction with planetary magnetospheres.
  • Planetary magnetospheric dynamics.
  • Reconnection at the outer planet magnetospheres
  • Planetary exospheres
  • Exoplanetary plasma environments

Selected Awards

  • 2023 NASA JPL Bonus Award for convening the first Uranus Flagship Workshop.
  • 2020 NASA JPL Team Award.
  • 2018 Sir Arthur Clarke Award.
  • 2018 NASA JPL Bonus Award.
  • 2018 NASA Group Achievement Award - Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Team.
  • 2017 NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship.

Selected Publications

Jasinski J. M., et al., (2022) Neptune’s pole-on magnetosphere: dayside reconnection observations by Voyager 2, Plan. Sci. J., 3, 76, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac5967

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2021) Photoionization Loss of Mercury’s Sodium Exosphere seasonal observations by MESSENGER and the THEMIS telescope, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL092980. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092980

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2020) A transient enhancement of Mercury’s exosphere at extremely high altitudes inferred from pickup ions, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18220-2.

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2020) The importance of local interstellar conditions on the galactic cosmic ray spectrum at Exoplanets, Ap. J. Lett., 899, L18, doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aba7c8

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2014), Cusp observation at Saturn’s high latitude magnetosphere by the Cassini spacecraft, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 1382–1388. doi: 10.1002/2014GL059319

Please see CV for full list of publications.