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Moldwin is the Arthur F Thurnau Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering and Applied Physics within the University of Michigan’s Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering within the College of Engineering and affiliated with the Space Physics Research Laboratory, the Engineering Education Research Program, the African Studies Center, the Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering, and the Robotics Institute. He is the Faculty Director of UM's M-STEM's M-Engin Program, President of the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Education Section, and Executive Director of NASA's Michigan Space Grant Consortium. Prior to joining the faculty of UM, Moldwin was a Professor of Space Physics at UCLA, Professor Physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Space and Atmospheric Sciences and Non-proliferation and International Security groups at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Moldwin conducts space physics research attempting to understand the flow of energy, mass, and momentum from the Sun through the Earth's space environment. Specifically, he is interested in magnetic structures and ULF waves in the heliosphere and magnetosphere, the distribution of plasma in the inner magnetosphere, the coupling of energy between the ionosphere and magnetosphere, and space weather. Moldwin has published over 160 refereed scientific articles on these subjects and was a NASA/ASEE Kennedy Space Center Faculty Fellow, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Associated Western Universities Faculty Fellow, and a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visiting Scientist. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner and a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar. Moldwin is or has been the principal or co-investigator of over 75 externally peer-reviewed scientific projects including building the magnetometers to fly on NASA’s Space Technology, including five satellites, the upcoming Air Force DSX mission satellite, and ground-based magnetometer deployment in North America, South America, Africa and Antarctica.
Modlwin is a co-founder of A2 Motus LLC an education technology company developing devices to enable teachers and students to better understand complex systems through kinesthetic activities. He was awarded Florida Tech’s Teaching Excellence Award, UCLA’s Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award, was rated as a Top Ten Professor by the Associated Students of UCLA, was awarded UM's Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize, the UM College of Engineering's Raymond J. and Monica E. Schultz Outreach and Diversity Award, and UM's Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award.