SPACE SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS

Dr. Stephen Fuselier

Vice President, Space Science Division
Southwest Research Institute

Dr. Fuselier has more than 40 years of experience as a scientist, project manager and director for scientists, engineers and technicians. He has played a key role in numerous NASA missions, including serving as a co-investigator on the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), sensor lead on the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, instrument lead on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, and deputy principal investigator and instrument lead on the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS).

Dr. Fuselier got recruited to Texas in 2011 to work with SwRI after 25 years at what is now Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center. He is well-known for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of physics interactions between solar wind and the Earth’s magnetosphere, comets, and the interstellar medium. His scientific interests include analysis of space plasma and energetic neutral atom data from various spacecraft including ISEE, ICE, AMPTE/CCE, POLAR, CLUSTER, IMAGE, IBEX, ROSINA, MMS, CRRES chemical releases and AEPI artificial aurora experiment. He is author on more than 620 publications in the scientific literature.

He is a fellow of the AGU and recipient of the 1995 James B. Macelwane Medal for “significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by a young scientist of outstanding ability.” He is also recipient of the European Geosciences Union 2016 Hannes Alfvén Medal for “fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of the interaction of the solar wind with Earth’s magnetosphere, comets, and the interstellar medium.”

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his achievements in original research in 2021. 

He serves as an Adjoint Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) where he gets to collaborate and mentor early-career researchers in his field of space physics. 

From 2022-2024, he served as co-chair for the Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey. The survey is now published and describes what the community wants to do over the next decade.

Related Sessions

Space Science & Exploration Track

Monday, April 13, 2026

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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