Hyomin Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Office: 104 Tiernan Hall, 161 Warren Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102
Email: hyomin.kim@njit.edu

About Me

Dr. Hyomin Kim, Assistant Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), researches the impact of solar emissions, such as radiation and charged particles, on Earth’s geomagnetic environment and human technologies. His analysis of magnetic field waves, caused by the interaction of solar wind with space plasma particles, demonstrates how solar energy is transferred to Earth’s upper atmosphere. To that end, he serves as the Deputy Director of the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) Polar Engineering Development Center (PEDC), overseeing the development and operation of scientific instruments and on-site services at NJIT’s Antarctic stations for space research. He is in charge of instruments located at stations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, including Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, and Antarctica. He is the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on NASA and NSF-funded projects, totaling over $7M.

Education

• Ph.D in Systems Engineering, University of New Hampshire, USA (2010) 

• M.S in Engineering Physics, Dartmouth College, USA (2004)

• M.S in Astronomy And Space Sciences, Kyung Hee University, South Korea (2001)

• B.S in Astronomy And Space Science, Kyung Hee University, South Korea (1999)

• B.E in Electrical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, S. Korea (1999)

Research Interest

• Ground-based and satellite data analysis for the study of interhemispheric geomagnetic response to solar wind, EMIC/ULF waves, and wave propagation in the ionosphere.

• Study of GPS scintillation in association with geomagnetic storms and substorms.

• Magnetometer (fluxgate and search-coil type) sensor and electronics design, fabrication, and calibration.

• Ground-based science instrument operation, data collection/processing, and maintenance.

• Field work for deployment of ground-based magnetometer systems (Greenland, Svalbard, Canada, and Antarctica).

Teaching

• PHYS 111 Physics 1

• PHYS 121 Physics 2 

• PHYS 322 Observational Astronomy

• PHYS 450 Advanced Physics Lab

• PHYS 780 Magnetospheric Physics

Gil Jeffer
Research Engineer
Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Projects:

• Development of data acquisition system/Iridium communication module for scientific instruments in Antarctica.

Chris Calle
Research Engineer
Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Projects:

• Development of data acquisition system/Iridium communication module for scientific instruments in Antarctica.

• Development of autonomous power system in Antarctica. 

Youra Shin
PhD Student
Department of Physics
Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
New Jersey Institute of Technology

About Me

Youra Shin is a PhD student in Applied Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on geospace response to the solar wind. Scientific research in this area is to understand phenomena in the interplanetary space between the Sun and the Earth, and its potential influence on the Earth via energy transfer into the Earth's upper atmosphere. 

Education

• M.S. in Space Research, Kyung Hee University, South Korea (2019)

• B.S. in Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University, South Korea (2016)

Research Interests

• Study of magnetic flux ropes in the solar wind and their properties

• Space- and ground-based data analysis for the study of interaction between dayside magnetospheric phenomena and the geospace environment 

Homa Yazdi Karimi
PhD Student
Department of Physics
Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
New Jersey Institute of Technology

About Me
Homa Yazdi Karimi, a PhD student in the Applied Physics program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, joined in 2022. She researches ionospheric irregularities through GPS signal analysis and examines their relationship with space weather.

Education

• M.S. in Astronomy and Cosmology, Shiraz University, Iran (2019)

• B.S. in Physics, Valiasr University, Iran (2014)

Research Interests

• Studying GPS scintillation in association with geomagnetic storms and substorms

Bhairavi Apte
PhD Student
Department of Physics
Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
New Jersey Institute of Technology

About Me

Bhairavi Apte is a PhD student in the Applied Physics Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She joined PhD in the Fall of 2021. She is researching particle dynamics, especially in the intermediate energy range in the inner magnetosphere.

Education

• MSc in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Mumbai, India (2019)

• BSc in Physics, B. N. Bandodkar College of Science, University of Mumbai, India (2017)

Research Interests

• Observations and data analysis of particle dynamics in the inner magnetosphere.

Joseph Visone
Undergraduate Student
Department of Physics
Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
New Jersey Institute of Technology

About Me 

Joseph Visone is currently an undergraduate student at NJIT studying Applied Physics, with the intention to participate in a PhD program in physics focusing on instrumentation development for ionospheric sciences and/or astronomy. He is currently involved in the NJIT chapter of the Society of Physics Students and Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity. He has been involved in the Magnetospheric Physics Lab since fall of 2023 where he began working with magnetic field data as a part of the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station project. Other project involvement includes deployment of the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station, and MICA magnetometer deployment in Svalbard. During the summer of 2024, he had the opportunity to be a part of NJIT's REU program where he worked at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory focusing on modeling the evolution of magnetic field lines on the surface of the Sun prior to coronal mass ejection events.

Education

• B.S. in Applied Physics, NJIT, USA (set to graduate in 2025)

Research Interests

• Instrument development for ionospheric/magnetospheric studies

Hameedulah Farooki, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Space Physics Group
Princeton University

About Me

Hameed joined NJIT as a computer science undergraduate freshman in Spring 2019. During 2021, he became involved in Solar-Terrestrial research. He studied the application of machine learning to understand small-scale magnetic flux ropes in the solar wind. To further this research after graduation, he joined the Applied Physics Ph.D. program at NJIT in Fall 2022, jointly advised by Drs. Hyomin Kim and Haimin Wang. During his Ph.D. he continued to study small-scale magnetic flux ropes, culminating in the completion of his thesis in Spring 2024. He now works as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Space Physics Group at Princeton University.

PhD Dissertation

"On the Ubiquity, Properties and Evolution of Small-Scale Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Heliosphere"