Solar System Astronomy; Interplanetary Medium; Comets and Asteroids; Interplanetary Dust Dynamics; Space Science and Rocketry; Space Environment including Space Debris, and Micrometeoroids.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Astronomy and Space Science, State University of New York at Albany, 1975, B.S., Istanbul University, 1965.
ACADEMIC
1996-present Professor, Department of Engineering Technology (ENT), Joint Appointment: Mechanical Material &Aerospace Engineering Department (MMAE), and the Physics Department at UCF. Faculty Member Florida Space Institute, (FSI), at UCF, and the Center for Space Education, Astronaut Memorial Foundation at KSC Visiting Complex.
1994-1995 Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UCF
1990-1994 Research Professor and Director, Center for Geo-Space Environmental Research, Florida Tech
1989-1990 Research Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
1987-1989 Associate Director, Space Astronomy Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
1982-1989 Associate Research Professor, Space Astronomy Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville
1980-1982 Assistant Research Professor, Space Astronomy Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville
9/78-3/80 Visiting Scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Greenbelt, MD
1978-1980 Research Associate, Space Astronomy Laboratory, State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA).
1975-1977 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Space Astronomy Laboratory, at SUNYA
1970-1975 Graduate Research Assistant, Dudley Observatory and SUNYA
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Sigma Xi ; Sigma Pi Sigma; American Astronomical Society; The Royal Astronomical Society; Member of Commissions 21 (Light of the Night Sky) and 22 (Meteors and Interplanetary Dust), INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION; ASEE

SOME PREVIOUS RESEARCH RESPONSIBILITIES
- Scientific Collaborator on the Zodiacal Light Experiment aboard NASA’s Skylab
- Scientific Collaborator on the Zodiacal Light Experiment aboard NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11 solar probes
- Co-Principal Investigator of a feasibility study of "The Radiation-induced Rotation of Cosmic Dust", at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laser Laboratory Division.
- Co-Investigator on the Zodiacal Light/Background Starlight experiment in the joint NASA/ESA Solar Polar (Out-of-Ecliptic) Mission (ISPM).
- Scientific Collaborator on the Shuttle-Induced Atmosphere experiment, Colombia which was launched in March 1982
- Principal Investigator on NSF for two years titled, "Can Cometary Dust Perturbed by the Inner Planets Explain the Observed Distribution of Interplanetary Dust?"
- Principal Investigator on AFOSR Grant #84-0212 titled, "The Interaction of Small Particles with Laser Beams:Application for the Defense of Satellites," which involved building a laser-particle dynamics laboratory to study the interaction of radiation with particles in a simulated space environment.
- Co-Investigator on the NASA Team of the NASA/ESA SOHO (Solar Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft, launched in 1995
GRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISED (eight): Advisee: Chairman for Dr. E.T. Rusk (Ph.D.), Dr. R. Schaefer (Ph.D.), Dr. G. Toller (Ph.D.) Ph.D. Candidate Mr. Shafiq Hasan Mr. Jan Arpi, (MS), Ms. L. Whitlock (MS), Ms. L. E. Petterra (MS), Mr. Zulfiqar Ali (MS)
Generated approximately two and half million dollars in federal and state research grants.
Proposal Reviewer: Reviewed numerous proposals for NSF, and NASA.
Journal Referee: Reviewed numerous scientific papers for the following journals: Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Planetary and Space Science, Space Science Reviews, AIAA Journal. Recently (in 1997 and 1998), I reviewed 2 papers, one for the Journal of Vibration and Control, and the other for the special issue titled “Dust and Planetary Rings,” for an International Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, held at Taiwan (July 1998).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (out of 34) IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
Misconi, N.Y. and Hanner, MS (1975), "On the possibility of detecting solar flare effects in the zodiacal light", Planet. Space Sci., 23, 1329-1335.
Misconi, N.Y., (1976), "Solar flare effects on the zodiacal light", Astron. Astrophys., 51, 357-365.
Misconi, N.Y., (1976), "On the rotational bursting of interplanetary dust particles", Geophys. Res. Letters, 3, 357-365.
Misconi, N.Y. and Rusk, E.T., (1985), "The size of the gravitational zone of influence of a planet acting on the orbital elements of small celestial bodies", Planet. Space Sci., 33, No. 11, 1359-1362.
Misconi, N.Y. and Rusk, E.T., (1987), "Brightness contribution of zodiacal dust along the line-of-sight in and out of the ecliptic plane and in the F-corona", Planet. Space Sci., 35, No. 12, 1571.
Rusk, E.T., Misconi, N.Y., and Gustafson, B.A.S., (1988), "Dynamical effects of Jupiter, the Inner Planets and Poynting-Robertson Drag on the lifetime of Interplanetary Dust", Planet. Space Sci., 36, No. 7, 747-752.
Donald J. Michaels et al., (1989), 'Lasco' - A Wide-Field White Light and spectrometric Coronagraph For SOHO", European Space Agency esa SP-1104, ISSN 0379-6566, "The SOHO Mission", Scientific and Technical Aspects of the Instruments", pp. 55-62.
Misconi, N.Y., Oliver, J. P., Ratcliff, K. F., Rusk, E. T., and Wang, Wan-Xian, (1990), "Light Scattering by Laser Levitated Particles", Applied Optics, 29, No. 15, 2276-2281.
Misconi, N.Y., Rusk, E. T., and Weinberg, J. L., (1990), "The Symmetry Surface of the Zodiacal Cloud Outside the Earth's Orbit", Planet. Space Sci., Vol. 38, No. 11, 1461-1468
Misconi, N.Y., Rusk, E. T., Weinberg, J. L., and Yu, Shousan, (1990), "Small Scale Structure In The Brightness of the Zodiacal Light: Ground-Based Observations", Planet. Space Sci., 38, No. 4, 517-527.
Misconi, N.Y., (1993), The Spin of Cosmic Dust: The Rotational Bursting of Circumsolar Dust in the F-Corona", J. Geophys. R., Vol. 98, No. A11, 18951-18961.
Misconi, N.Y. and Petterra, L.E., (1995), "On the Possibility of Solar Dust Ring Formation due to Increased Ion Drag from Coronal Mass Ejections on Circumsolar Dust," Planet. Space Sci., Vol. 43, NO. 7, 895-903.
Misconi, N.Y., (1996), "A New Technique for Levitating Solid Particles Using a Proton Beam," Laser and Particle Beams Journal, Vol. 14, no. 3, 501-510.
Wang, W.X., and Misconi, N.Y., (1999), " Quasi-Analytical Solutions for Apsidal Motion in the Three-Body Problem: Sun-minor planet-Jupiter," Earth Planets and Space, Vol. 51, No. 11, 1181-1194, Terra Scientific Publishing Company (TERRAPUB), Tokyo, Japan.
Misconi, N.Y., (2004), "Numerical Simulations of Rotational Bursting of F -coronal Dust in eccentric orbits Due to Coronal Mass Ejections,” Planetary and Space Science Journal, Vol. 52, 833-838..

1998-1999
• Large-Scale Structural Research Laboratory