Summary
I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Space and Atmospheric Physics group of the Physics Department. I received my Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Colorado Boulder where I held a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. I was awarded the Basu United States Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science from the American Geophysical Union in 2018.
My research focuses on using spacecraft observations to study plasma turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and related small-scale plasma processes in the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind. I am currently closely involved with NASA's Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission, as a member of the science team. In addition to analysing the data from MMS, I have also contributed to planning scientific operations for the mission. Previously, I have worked extensively with data from NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) missions and have experience performing and analysing direct numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic and Hall magnetohydrodynamic turbulence.
Publications
Journals
Matteini L, Tenerani A, Landi S, et al., 2024, Alfvénic fluctuations in the expanding solar wind: Formation and radial evolution of spherical polarization, Physics of Plasmas, Vol:31, ISSN:1070-664X
Smith AW, Rae IJ, Stawarz JE, et al., 2024, Automatic Encoding of Unlabeled Two Dimensional Data Enabling Similarity Searches: Electron Diffusion Regions and Auroral Arcs, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Vol:129, ISSN:2169-9380