Barbara June Thompson

Barbara J. Thompson received the B.A. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 1996. She has been a Civil Servant of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center since 1998, and is currently a Research Scientist with the Heliophysics Science Division. She was on numerous space mission teams, with a research emphasis on dynamic phenomena on the Sun and the inner Heliosphere. She is a part of the leadership team for the Center for Helio Analytics, a Community of Practice to envision solutions using machine learning, knowledge capture, and data analytics to expand the discovery potential for key heliophysics research topics and missions.