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Dr. Matina Gkioulidou is a heliophysicist with expertise that spans different regions in space, from plasma acceleration processes in Earth’s magnetosphere during geomagnetic storms to our heliosphere’s interactions with the interstellar medium. Her research focuses on experimental space physics, including data analysis from space missions and energetic particle instrumentation. She is the project scientist and co-investigator (Co-I) of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission. She also led the development of the IMAP-Ultra instrument, which measures energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) coming all the way from our heliospheric boundary, revealing how that boundary is shaped by interactions with the interstellar medium. She is the deputy instrument scientist for the JENI instrument on the European Space Agency’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, set to provide ENA images of Jupiter’s magnetosphere for the very first time. As Co-I of the RBSPICE instrument on NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission, she investigated physical processes that led to the development of geomagnetic storm-time ring current and ionospheric outflow.

Dr. Gkioulidou has a track record of active engagement in the heliophysics community. She has served as a member of the National Science Foundation’s Geospace Environment Modeling Steering Committee, NASA’s Living With a Star Program Analysis Group (LPAG), and NASA’s Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC), and she is currently a member of NASA’s Heliophysics Technology Program Analysis Group (H-TPAG).