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Biography

Dr. Maria (Masha) Kuznetsova is a scientist in the Space Weather Laboratory at NASA/GSFC , and the Director of the NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC). She was a key founder of the CCMC, which is now one of the world’s leading space weather modeling and service centers, and an early champion of open science through community access to observational data, model runs, and simulation results hosted at the CCMC. For over 30 years she has been actively involved in the study of critical space weather phenomena including magnetic reconnection, mechanisms of collisionless dissipation, current-driven instabilities, particle acceleration, structure and stability of magnetospheric thin current sheets, and theory and modeling of Flux Transfer Events. Her research interests also include global modeling of magnetospheric dynamics and implementation of kinetic effects in magnetohydrodynamic models. She is the author or co-author of more than 200 publications, most recently of 6 papers submitted to the Space Weather Roadmap Special Issue in Advances in Space Research

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Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, MD, US

2004-04-05 to present | Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Director (Space Weather Laboratory, Heliophyscis Science division)
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Maria Kuznetsova

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Washington, D.C, US

2023-12-30 to present
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TOPS Open Science 101

National Research Council Research Associateship Programs: Washington, D.C., US

1993-12-01 to 1995-12-01
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Maria Kuznetsova

Space Research Institute: Moscow, RU

1981-02-01 to 1987-04-02 | Theoretical Physics, Ph. D.
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Maria Kuznetsova