Member Since 2011
Kristie LLera
R&D Group Leader, Southwest Research Institute
Member, Honors and Recognition Committee; Member, Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee
AGU member since 2011. She received a Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Texas in San Antonio (UTSA). She is an R&D Group Leader for the magnetosphere and ionosphere group at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)'s space science and engineering division. Currently studies the interaction between the solar wind and celestial objects (Earth's magnetosphere, comets, etc.), along with developing designs for space instrumentaion.
Professional Experience
Southwest Research Institute
R&D Group Leader
2018 - Present
Southwest Research Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher
2018 - 2019
Southwest Research Institute
Graduate research assistant (GRA)
2011 - 2017
University of Texas at San Antonio
graduate research assistant
2011 - 2017
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Education
University of Texas at San Antonio
Doctorate
Publications
Tracking Magnetopause Motion Using Cold Plasmaspheric Ions
We demonstrate that any plasmaspheric/cold ions accelerated in the vicinity of the magnetopause boundary, can proxy the local magnetopause motion o...
November 01, 2023
Plasma Properties in the Earth's Magnetosheath Near the Subs...
October 19, 2023
Solar Wind Protons Forming Partial Ring Distributions at Com...
February 03, 2023
Reconnection X‐Line Orientations at the Earth's Magnetopause
November 24, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Cold ion heating and acceleration in the magnetopause boundary layers during the 2019 MMS string-of-pearls campaign
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Sarah K. Vines, Stephen A. Fuselier, Karlheinz J. ...
For cold and heavy magnetospheric ion populations that reach the dayside magnetopause, how those populations evolve across magnetopause separatrices i...
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The Analyzer for Cusp Ions (ACI) on the TRACERS mission
DAYSIDE MAGNETOSPHERE INTERACTIONS III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Stephen A. Fuselier, Craig Kletzing, Roman G. Gome...
The Analyzers for Cusp Ions (ACIs) on the TRACERS mission measure ion velocity distribution functions in the magnetospheric cusp from two closely spac...
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Quantifying Boundary Layers by Tracking Magnetopause Motion with Cold Plasmaspheric Ions During the 2019 MMS String-of-Pearls Campaign
DAYSIDE MAGNETOSPHERE INTERACTIONS III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Kristie LLera, Stephen A. Fuselier, Sarah K. Vines...
In early 2019, the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission adopted a string-of-pearls configuration with a roughly logarithmic separation between the ...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
2023 - 2025
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee
2022 - 2023
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
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