Nour E. Raouafi

Background

About Nour E. Raouafi

I am an Astrophysicst and a Senior Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. I am also the Project Scientist of NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission, which launched on August 12, 2018, and is the record holder of the closest man-made object to a star (i.e, the Sun) and also the fastest spacecraft. Parker will get as close as 3.8 million miles from the solar surface, that almost 4% of the Sun-Earth distance (i.e, 93 million miles) I got my Ph.D. in Dec. from the University of Paris XI (Orsay, France). Before joining the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in 2008, I worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Göttingen, Germany 2002-2005) and the National Solar Observatory (Tucson, Arizona: 2005-2008). My research spreads over a wide range of solar and heliospheric areas with an emphasis on the dynamic solar corona via the analysis of spectral and imaging observations, theory, and modeling. My primary contributions have been in the area of solar magnetic fields, coronal spectropolarimetry, coronal plumes and jets, CMEs and coronal shock waves, solar wind, solar energetic particles, and cometary physics. I authored and co-authored tens of peer-reviewed papers and meeting proceedings. I am a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Astronomical Society/Solar Physics Division (SPD). I am a USSF (United States Soccer Federation) certified referee since 2006.