
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti
Research Faculty
CLaSP
Assistant Research Scientist, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering and Adjunct Lecturer in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering
Comprehensive investigations of solar, interplanetary, and Earth’s Magnetospheric systems utilizing state-of-the-art in-situ observations and global simulations. The research topics of interest involve critical open science questions, including solar coronal heating, solar wind acceleration and heating processes, magnetospheric dynamics, and space weather predictions. The research tools include statistical data analyses to generate physics-based models.