Biography

 Dr. Quirino Sugon Jr graduated with degrees of BS in Physics (1997), MS  in Physics (1999), and PhD in Physics (2010) from Ateneo de Manila University. He taught physics for more than 20  years, starting at the University of St. La Salle from 1999 to 2002. He taught at Ateneo de Manila University from 2004 to 2007 as Instructor and from 2010 to 2023 as Assistant Professor. He also taught at the Department of Aerospace Engineering of Ateneo de Davao University as a guest faculty in 2020. 

At Manila Observatory, Dr. Sugon served as the Head of the Upper Atmosphere Dynamics Laboratory from 2010 to 2018, where he worked on space weather research using MAGDAS magnetometers, FMCW radars, and GPS satellites. In 2017, he came back to Ateneo de Manila University after a 9-month research work as Associate Professor at the International Center for Space Weather Science and Education (ICSWSE) at Kyushu University in order to study equatorial electrojets and seismo-electromagnetics. He served as the Co-Head of the MO Davao Station in 2020 and Head of the Ateneo Theoretical Research Group from 2021 to 2023.  

In 2020 to 2022, Dr. Sugon worked with DISCS (Department of Information and Computer Science) of Ateneo de Manila University and the AGSB (Ateneo Graduate School of Business) on a URC (University Research Council) project on the Philippine Universal Health Care. In 2022 to 2023, he served as a space weather consultant of Ateneo de Davao University URC project on the lighting-rainfall- temperature climatology of Mindanao Island. In 2023, he received a 15-unit research deloading from Ateneo de Manila University to study the orbits of the Hydrogen electron under polarized light using geometric algebra. 

Dr. Sugon served as the Chief Blogger and Editor of Ateneo Physics News from 2010 to 2020. He also served in 2016-2019 as the Philippine National Coordinator of the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) under the the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). 

Here is his CV.