Vania K JordanovaVania Jordanova is a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory with over 25 years of experience bridging theoretical plasma physics, data analysis, and computational modeling. Her expertise includes geomagnetic storm dynamics and processes cupling ionospheric and magnetospheric regions. Originally from Bulgaria, she received a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Space Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1995. Before joining the Laboratory in 2006, she spent ten years at the University of New Hampshire, teaching magnetospheric physics and investigating the geospace environment with state-of-the-art models she developed. Currently, she is the Chair of the NSF/GEM Program Steering Committee. She has more than 150 scientific publications and has given over 50 invited presentations at international conferences. She is a Co-Investigator on the NASA Van Allen Probes mission and Principal Investigator of the interdisciplinary SHIELDS (Space Hazards Induced near Earth by Large Dynamic Storms) project, winner of a R&D 100 Award in 2017. Read More Read Less