Dr. Jan Merka
Research Associate · Non-Tenure Track
Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute
About
Graduated from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic in 2001 and now works on heliophysics research at NASA/GSFC. He is the director of the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute at UMBC.
Research interests
Space physics research: Virtual Observatories, Heliophysics Data Environment, solar wind, bow shock, magnetopause, magnetosphere, numerical modeling, data assimilation.
Education
- Ph D, Plasma Physics — Charles University (2000)
- MS, Astrophysics — Charles University (1996)