Katherine Goodrich

Biography and Research

Katy received her Ph.D. in space physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2017. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley from 2018 to 2020. Her research interests include microphysics of collisionless shocks in space, structures that arise from plasma turbulence, and wave-particle interactions in various space environments. She also works to develop instrumentation and data analysis techniques to measure electric fields in space. She currently works with the NASA funded missions Magnetospheric Multi-scale (MMS) and Parker Solar Probe (PSP). Using the data from these missions, Katy can examine the smallest workings of space plasma from the Earth’s magnetosphere, to the solar wind, to Venus!