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Katia MatchevaAssistant Professor
PhD 2000 (Johns Hopkins U)304 Bryant Space Science Center 
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Areas of Specialty
Planetary Atmospheres, Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry, Fluid Dynamics, Wave Dynamics, Planetary Ionospheres, Radiative Transfer Models.
Research Interests
My research interests center on the physics and chemistry of the atmospheres of Solar- and Extra- solar system planets. I am using numerical models and observations to understand the processes that determine the structure and the dynamics of the thin gaseous envolope surrounding most planetary bodies. Current projects involve (1) Numerical modeling of the impact of atmospheric waves on the ionosphere of Giant planets; (2) Studying the spectrum of gravity waves present in the atmospheres of solar system planets; (3) Studying the cloud structure and the haze distribution in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn using Cassini and Voyager infrared observations.
Biography
I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Florida. I am also an affiliate faculty at the Astronomy Department and work closely with my astronomy colleagues. Before join UF in 2005, I received a PhD degree in the field of Planetary Atmospheres from Johns Hopkins University (2000). Subsequently, I spent two years at the Observatory of Paris-Meudon in France as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. My next appointment was as a research associate in the Astronomy Department at Cornell University where I worked on radiative transfer models of giant planets.