(Updated April 16, 2023)
Institution | Ph.D. Dissertations | Master Theses | Undergraduate Theses | Student Paper Awards |
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
2 | 1 | 1 | ||
Imperial College London, UK | 1 | 3 | ||
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
Kyoto University, Japan | 1 | 1 | ||
Nagoya University, Japan | 1 | |||
Rice University | 1 | 1 |
The Catholic University of America |
2 | ||||
The University of Iowa | 1 | 1 | ||
The University of Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 8 | ||
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan | 1 | |||
University of Bergen, Norway | 1 | 1 | ||
University of California, Los Angeles |
3 | 1 | |||
University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | 1 | ||
University of Delaware | 2 | 1 | ||
University of Graz, Austria | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
University of Maryland, College Park | 2 | |||
University of Michigan | 4 | |||
University of New Hampshire | 5 | 1 | ||
University of |
Texas at San Antonio | 4 |
1 | 1 | |
University of Toulouse, France |
5 | 2 | |||
University of Wisconsin - Madison | 2 | |||
Uppsala University, Sweden | 4 | |||
Total |
43 |
27 |
3 | 7 |
Ph.D. Dissertations
2024
Hubbert, Mark A., Distinguishing Electron-Only Flux Rope Erosion and Electron-Only Onset of Reconnection from Ion-Coupled Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetotail, Ph.D Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2024
Lindberg, Martin, Electron Heating and Acceleration at Earth’s Collisionless Bow Shock, Ph.D Dissertation, KTH, Sweden, 2024
Liou, Yu-Lun, Plasma Physical Processes of the Dayside Geospace Solar Wind - Magnetosphere Coupling, Ph.D Dissertation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, 2024
2023
Akhtar, Ardakani S., Influence of O+ on Onset and Energy Release in the Earth’s Magnetotail, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 2023.
Cuesta, Manuel, The Radial Evolution of Turbulence Properties Observed in the Solar Wind, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware, USA, 2023.
Marshall, Andrew, MMS Observations of Secondary Reconnection X-Lines and the Unexpected Phenomena Surrounding Them, PhD Thesis, Rice University, 2023.
Beedle, Jason, Exploring the Kinetic Scale Mechanism of the Dayside Magnetopause Current System, PhD Thesis, The Catholic University of America, 2023
Wang, Xiantong, First-Principle Modeling and Machine Learning for Space Weather Forecasting, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan, 2022.
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Kolstø, Håkon Midthun, Magnetic Reconnection and Heavy Ions, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bergen, 2022.
Lenouvel, Quentin, Machine learning identification of Electronic Diffusion Regions at the Earth's magnetopause observed by the MMS mission, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toulouse, France, 2022.
Raptis, Savvas. High-speed jets and related phenomena at Earth's bow shock and magnetosheath. Diss. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2022.
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Afshari, Arya, An Analysis of Electron Landau Dumping as a Turbulent Dissipation Mechanism in the Terrestrial Magnetosheath, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Iowa, Iowa, 2020.
Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi, Turbulent Heating In Space Plasmas: Theory And Observations, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware, USA, 2020.
Fadanelli, Sid, Magnetic configurations, reconnection and energy transfers in space plasmas, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toulouse, France, 2020.
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Masuda, Miki, Relation between whistler wave intensity and shock parameters at Earth’s bow shock, Master Thesis, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2023.
2022
Guerra, Marco, Investigation of inductive electric fields in Earth’s magnetotail using Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) multipoint measurements, Master Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2022.
Wang, Yanwen, Determining Energy Cascade Rate In Magnetohydrodynamics By Third-Order Law, Master Thesis, University of Delaware, USA, 2022.
2021
Dahani, Souhail, The helicity of magnetic flux ropes at the Earth's magnetopause, Master Thesis, University of Toulouse, France, 2021.Pritchard, Kristina, Energy Conversion and Electron Acceleration in the Magnetopause Reconnection Diffusion Region, M.S. in Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio
Grönlund, Arthur, Statistical Survey of Earth’s Magnetopause Using MMS Data: Pressure Balance, Total Pressure Contributions and Magnetopause Velocity near the Subsolar Point, Dawn- and Dusk Flanks, Master Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2021.
Shimada, Ryoya, Study of mirror mode in earth’s magnetosheath using MMS observations, Master Thesis, The University of Tokyo, 2021.
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Blasl, Kevin Alexander, In-situ spacecraft observations of surface waves at Earth’s magnetopause during periods of southward interplanetary magnetic field, Master Thesis, University of Graz, 2020.
Foghammar-Nömtak, Carl, Automatic SLAMS detection and magnetospheric classification in MMS data, Master Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2020.
Takahashi, Keita, A method for estimation of cold plasma density from whistler mode waves observed by Magnetospheric Multiscale mission spacecraft, Master Thesis, Kyoto University, 2020.
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LaMoury, Adrian, Magnetic reconnection exhausts in the magnetosheath and solar wind with Magnetospheric Multiscale, MSci. Thesis, Imperial College London, 2019.
Pritchard, Kristina, Dayside Asymmetric Reconnection, M.S. in Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2019.
Suzuki, Makoto, Evaluation of Analysis Method for Characteristics of ULF waves in Earth's Magnetosphere observed by MMS, Master Thesis, The University of Tokyo, 2019.
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James Webster, Magnetospheric Multiscale Dayside Reconnection Electron Diffusion Region Events,Master’s Degree in physics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2016
Undergraduate Theses
2022
Berglund, Sofie and Wallner, Alice, Using satellite data to calculate entropy of electrons at collisionless shocks, Bachelor Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2022.
2021
Bergson Hallberg, Karl, Electron Acceleration at Earth Bow Shock, Bachelor Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2021.
2016
O'Meera, M., Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Encounters with the Magnetopause and Bifurcated Current Sheets, Undergraduate Thesis, University of New Hampshire, 2016.
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Outstanding Student Paper Awards
2022
Savvas Raptis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Downstream high-speed plasma jet generation as a direct consequence of shock reformation (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28110-4), highlighted as Springer 2022: Breakthrough Research Highlights: Astronomy.
2021
Kevin Blasl, University of Graz, Austria
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