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Muni Zhou

Appointments

Assistant Professor · Dartmouth College · 2025-present
Member, School of Natural Science · Institute for Advanced Study · 2022-2024
Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow · Princeton University · 2022-2023

Education

Ph.D. in Plasma Physics · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2016-2022
B.Sc. in Physics (Honors) · Zhejiang University · 2012-2016

Selected Research Support

NSF: Decay and Diffusion of Dynamo-Generated Magnetic Fields in Astrophysical Plasmas · PI · PHY-2512037 · 2025–2028
INCITE: Extreme Plasmas at the Spacetime Frontier · Co-PI · 2026-2029
DOE ALCC: Interplay between Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence · Co-I · 2026–2029
NSF ACCESS: Generation and Relaxation of Cosmic Magnetic Fields in a Turbulent Collisionless Plasma · PI · 2024-2025

Selected Honors & Awards

Walter and Constance Burke Research Initiation Award · 2025
Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship · 2022-2023
Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) · 2020-2022
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering · 2019
Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis Award, Zhejiang University · 2016

Selected Professional Service

Vice Chair, APS-DPP Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics · 2025-2026
Program Committee, AAPPS Division of Plasma Physics · 2026
Program Committee, APS Division of Plasma Physics · 2025
Co-organizer, PCTS Workshop on Particle Transport in Magnetized Turbulence · 2024
Co-organizer, PCTS/PGI Workshop on Improving Black Hole Accretion Models with Plasma Theory · 2023

Selected Invited Talks

Magnetic Reconnection Workshop · Kagoshima, Japan · 2026
NSF ECLIPSE Meeting · Michigan · 2026
Invited One-Week Lectureship, Theoretical Astrophysics Program · University of Arizona · 2026
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting · New Orleans · 2025
AAPPS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting · Fukuoka, Japan · 2025
APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting · 2024