Speaking: Ashraf Moradi, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
Dr Moradi is a member of LPL's Solar and Heliospheric Research Group. The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has had a long history studying the Sun’s atmosphere and magnetic field as it moves outward at supersonic speeds throughout the solar system until it encounters the local interstellar medium. The region of the interstellar space near the Sun that is ‘carved out’ by the solar wind is known as the Heliosphere. Current LPL researchers study many different aspects of the Heliosphere, including how it affects the transport of galactic cosmic rays within the solar system, as well as the acceleration and transport of high-energy solar particles, both of which comprise the space radiation environment.
Areas of Interest: The effect of the Interplanetary Transport on the Ground-level Enhancement (GLE) events, Transport of Solar Energetic Particles into the Interplanetary Space, Modeling the Photospheric Surface Flows, Expansion of the open magnetic fluxtubes into the inner corona.
