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Dr. Weijie Sun is an assistant research physicist at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining SSL, he held positions as a postdoctoral research fellow and later an assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Sun earned his Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2016.
Dr. Sun’s research interests include topics such as magnetic reconnection, particle energization, and comparative planetary magnetospheres. Dr. Sun has been serving in the Scientist-In-The-Loop (SITL) of the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission since 2018. He serves as a Co-Investigator for the Mercury Plasma/Particle Experiment (MPPE) of Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter (Mio) on the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo Mission.
Dr. Sun actively contributes to the scientific community. He serves/chairs on review panels for both Heliosphysics and Planetary divisions at NASA ROSES, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and several European Research Foundations. He frequently reviews articles for scientific journals and chairs or co-chairs sessions at several scientific conferences. Currently, he co-advises two Ph.D. students, mentors one postdoctoral research fellow, and supervises several motivated undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.
