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 serve