Solar wind is a continuous stream of charged particles from Sun which carries the solar magnetic field into interplanetary space. Solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetosphere and its conditions that vary in time and space drive space weather in near-Earth space. Extreme space weather events are driven by coronal mass ejections.
My research focuses on resolving the structure of coronal mass ejections, how it evolves in interplanetary space and how solar wind and coronal mass ejections drive magnetospheric dynamics. In my research, I analyze spacecraft measurements and results from numerical simulations. My results are significant for both fundamental space plasma physics and space weather applications.
I graduated from the University of Helsinki defending my dissertation in 2021. After finishing my PhD, I spend three years at the University of Michigan in the United States as postdoctoral researchers/research scientist. I returned to Finland in January 2025, when I started at the University of Helsinki as a postdoctoral researcher.