Endawoke Yizengaw

Endawoke Yizengaw was born in Northwestern Ethiopia known as Amber. He received the B.Sc. degree in applied physics from Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1994; the M.Sc. degree in atmospheric sciences from Tromso University, Tromso, Norway, in 1998; and the Ph.D. degree in space science from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2004. He spent two years, i.e., from 2004 to 2006, as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, where he won the 2006 Chancellor's Award for the best Postdoctoral Researcher. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Research Fellow with the IGPP, UCLA. Since July 2009, he has been a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. He has been a Principal or Coinvestigator in several interdisciplinary projects, primarily focused on deploying ground-based instruments, including the AMBER project that comprises five magnetometers deployed in Africa. He is the author or coauthor of over 40 professional publications, of which more than 30 are in peer-reviewed scientific journals. His research interests include space weather, magnetosphere–ionosphere coupling, equatorial ionospheric electrodynamics, and ground- and space-based GPS tomography. His research is mainly focused on combining information from a variety of ground- and space-based instruments to understand ionospheric irregularities that affect navigation and communication systems.