Ravindra Desai is an Assistant Professor in the University of Warwick's Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, and holds honorary positions at Imperial College London, London and the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. His research includes the utilisation and development of a range of magnetohydrodynamic, particle-in-cell and hybrid simulation codes to pursue blue skies research into plasma physics across the solar system and beyond. He is also interested in how astrophysical phenomena intersect with, and pose dangers to, our increasingly technology-dependent society through phenomena collectively known as Space Weather.

In 2023, Ravindra was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society Winton Award for outstanding contributions in the field of Space Plasma physics and Royal Astronomical Society Higher Education Award for outstanding supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students. He participates in outreach with the Sun-Space-Art programme.

Ravindra is involved in a number of current and upcoming space missions, including, the ESA/CAS SMILE mission to image the global magnetosphere using X-rays, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission, and NASA/ESA/JAXA/CSA Gateway Space Station within the Artemis program. He is also leading development efforts to develop quantum magnetometry and optomechanical experiments as novel sensors in space. He is the lead for the ROARS (Revealing Orbital and Atmospheric Responses to Solar activity) mission concept.

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Ravindra Desai
Department of Physics,
University of Warwick,
Coventry, CV4 7AL,
UK

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