Profile
Current Positions:
Research Geophysicist, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
Citizenship: USA
Education:
Ph.D., Geophysics and Space Physics, UCLA, 1997
B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University, 1989
Research Areas:
Mars surface magnetic field observations for magnetospheric and interior studies (NASA Insight Co-Investigator & Participating Scientist)
Lunar Magnetism
Apollo magnetic field measurements (Principal Investigator, NASA LDAP project)
Lunar ion cyclotron waves and connection to the exosphere (Principal Investigator, NASA LDAP project)
Lunar Geophysical Network (Co-Investigator, NASA planetary mission concept study)
Lunar Vector Magnetometer (Co-Investigator, Taiwan Outer Space Exploration - Lunar Lander #1)
Magnetoseismology and terrestrial magnetosphere
Ground-based magnetometers for space weather research (Principal Investigator, NSF Surface Magnetic Assessment in Real-Time (SMART) project
Travel-time magnetoseismology (Principal Investigator: NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator project)
Normal-model magnetoseismology (Principal Investigator: NASA Living With a Star and Heliophysics Supporting Research projects)
Seismic insights within geomagnetic and ionospheric data (Frontier Development Lab Faculty and Domain Lead, Summer 2022)
Community Services:
Chair, International "Ultra Large Terrestrial International Magnetometer Array (ULTIMA)" Consortium
Editor (Space Science), Earth, Planets and Space journal
Chair, Ultra-low-frequency (ULF) Waves Working Group, International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA)
Member, U.S. Ground Magnetometer Array Advisory Board
Editor, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Newsletter
Students:
Current:
Matilde Abreu (UCLA Astrophysics '25)
Filipe Andrade (UCLA EE '24)
Eric Broman (UCLA AE '23)
Tahlia Garcia (UCLA MechE '23)
Elona Khoshaba (UCLA EE '25)
Samuel Lihn (Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Technologies, New Jersey)
Alan Michael (UCLA CS '25)
Jonathan Pan (Henry M. Gunn High School, California)
Ryan Pham (UCLA MechE '26)
Ryan Teoh (UCLA AE '25)
Anbu Vajuravel (UCLA Physics '25)
Mikaela van de Heetkamp (UCLA MechE '25)
Michelle Wang (UCLA Statistics and Data Science '24)
Eden Zafran (UCLA AE '23)
Brandon Zhao (UCLA Data/Econ '23)
Past: Sanchit Agarwal (UCLA CS/Physics '23), Cassandra Armstrong (UCLA Physics '20; Now at Los Alamos National Laboratory), Taylor Currier (Pierce College AE/Math), Erin Flores (UCLA Astronomy '21; Now at UC Irvine MAE Graduate Program), Matt Lacaire (UCLA ME '23), Peggy Li (UCLA Physics '22), Zachary Lihn (Timothy Christian High School '21; Now at Columbia University with Science Research Fellowship), Taylor Lonner (UCLA Geophysics/Astrophysics '20; Now at University of Colorado AE Graduate Program), Joseph Merrill (UCLA Physics '20; Now at UCLA EPSS Graduate Program); Alexa Roosnovo (UCLA Astrophysics/AOS '22; Now at Los Alamos National Laboratory), Brian Wilcox (UCLA Physics '20), Gavin Wong (UCLA CS '25)
E-mail: pchi [at] igpp.ucla.edu
