Mark Moldwin is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An award-winning teacher, his primary research interests are magnetospheric, ionospheric, and heliospheric plasma physics, and pre-college space science education and outreach. He is a Past-President of the American Geophysical Union's Education Section, a former Editor-in-Chief of Reviews of Geophysics and among his numerous honors received the 2016 AGU's Waldo E. Smith Award for his 'extraordinary service to geophysics'.