Research

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

My research investigates the physical processes that govern energy transfer and particle energization in weakly collisional plasmas. The solar wind provides an extraordinary laboratory for this work: spacecraft observations can be compared directly against predictions from plasma theory and numerical simulations.

Turbulence and plasma heating

How does turbulent energy move across scales, and which processes ultimately heat particles? We study turbulent cascades, intermittency, kinetic-scale fluctuations, and the connections between spatial structure and energy dissipation.

Kinetic plasma physics

Space plasmas often depart strongly from local thermodynamic equilibrium. We investigate how non-Maxwellian particle velocity distributions influence wave propagation, kinetic instabilities, and wave–particle energy exchange. Numerical dispersion tools and spacecraft measurements provide complementary constraints.

Multi-spacecraft measurements and heliophysics missions

Multi-point observations open new ways to distinguish spatial from temporal variability, measure turbulent structure, and reconstruct plasma gradients. I am Deputy Principal Investigator of NASA’s HelioSwarm mission and contribute to the Parker Solar Probe SWEAP investigation.

Planned additions: a mission image, one representative turbulence figure, and links to selected project papers.