Lynn Wilson
Plasma Physicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolLynn Wilson is a plasma physicist with over a decade at NASA Goddard, serving as Project Scientist for the Wind spacecraft and Mission Scientist for SunRISE while guiding mission funding, data dissemination, and outreach. She has led and shaped the heliophysics community through roles on SHINE, GEM, and NASA strategic committees, and as an ISSI team and GEM focus group leader. A prolific researcher, Lynn has been PI or Co-I on 20+ funded proposals and authored over 140 refereed publications grounded in her PhD work on collisionless shock microphysics. Her career began with theoretical studies of solitary waves at Saint John’s and evolved into instrument- and mission-scale science, giving her rare end-to-end expertise from plasma theory to spacecraft operations.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Arts - BA Physics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Physics at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University
Github Skills (10)
idl8
locked7
planet6
cycle6
planets6
insar5
simulation4
evolution4
orbital-mechanics4
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
lynnbwilsoniii/wiki_files_movies
May 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
lynnbwilsoniii/wind_3dp_pros
May 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 63 commits, 59 pushes in 6 years 6 months
idlwindspacecraft
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