Bourouaine, Sofaine
Sofiane Bourouaine
Assistant Professor | COES: Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences
Contact Information
Personal Overview
My scientific research focuses on the fundamental physics underlying the heating and the acceleration of solar wind plasma and the solar corona including the turbulence processes that transfer energy from the injection scale down to the kinetic scale. I use theory and spacecraft data with numerical plasma simulations to investigate the heating and turbulence processes in solar wind.
Educational Background
Ph.D, 2009, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Georg-August Goettingen University, Goettingen, Germany
Magister, Theoretical Physics, 2003, University of Constantine, Constantine, Algeria
Diploma of High Studies, Theoretical Physics, 1999, University of Constantine, Constantine, Algeria
Professional Experience
2020 -2022: Senior Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723
2019 -2020: Assistant Research Professor 2019 Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901
2016-2019: Research Professional/Adjunct Professor Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901
2014- 2016: Postdoctoral research Scholar, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
2012 - 2014: Research Scientist, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
2009-2012: Postdoctoral fellowship, Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research,Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
Current Courses
SPS 5020: Space Physics 1
PHY3060: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Junior level)
PHY5082: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Grad. level)
Selected Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S2flPm4AAAAJ&hl=en
Research
Total Active Grants is about $ 2.2M (FIT funds: 1.5M)
- Co-PI: NASA HGI, Title: Evolution of alpha and Proton Populations in the Inner Heliosphere: Role ofCoulomb Collisions and Solar Wind Fluctuations: Heliophysics Guest Investigator
- PI: NASA HSR, Title: Investigating the space time correlation of solar wind turbulence.
- Co-PI: NASA PSPGI, Title: Using Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations to test and constrain models of the solar wind and solar-wind turbulence.
- PI: NASA HGI, Title: On the origin of energetically-dominant sunward-propagating AlfvÅLen waves inthe solar wind.