Dr Ravindra Desai
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Recruiting Research Fellow:
https://workwithus.warwick.ac.uk/job/COVENTRY-Research-Fellow-CV4-7AL/1450364133/
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Ravi Desai is an Associate Professor in the University of Warwick's Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, and holds honorary positions at Imperial College London and the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. His research includes the development and application of a range of plasma 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, Ravi 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.
Ravi 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 Artemis program. He is also the lead for the shortlisted ESA ROARS F3 mission concept.
His research feeds into the Warwick Centre for Space Domain Awareness and Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability, as well as the development of quantum sensing within Warwick Quantum.
Write to:
Ravindra Desai
Department of Physics,
University of Warwick,
Coventry, CV4 7AL,
UK