Cher Scarlett

I am a student studying physics, mathematics, astronomy, and earth sciences in Southern California. I have had internships at NASA-JPL, Caltech, and a position as a teaching assistant funded by the National Science Foundation at Earthscope Consortium.

My research interests include plasma physics (particularly the near-earth plasma environment and atmospheric plasmas, but also fusion energy generation and other technological applications); space, atmospheric, and climate physics; heliophysics; nuclear and particle astrophysics; the interstellar medium; magnetohydrodynamics; degenerate materials that generate a magnetic field (i.e., metallic hydrogen); magnetic mirrors; gravity; and applying seismological principles to other energetic phenomena. I am also interested personally in unusually dense celestial objects like black holes and neutron stars.

I taught myself to code in middle school. I've been programming for more than 20 years and have worked in a variety of industries in large corporations such as Apple, Activision Blizzard, Starbucks, and USA Today.

I care deeply for community and involve myself in public policy and community science. I am a passionate advocate of equitable human rights and environmental stewardship.

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Reach me at hello@cher.dev.