Juan Martinez-Sykora

Juan Martinez-Sykora

MUSE science deputy lead, EUVST Co-I

Disciplines: Solar Physics

Degree/Major: PhD, Solar Physics at the University of Oslo, Norway.

jmsykora@seti.org
Biography

Juan Martinez-Sykora is interested in developing models for the solar atmosphere and comparing them to observations. In particular, He is interested in the effects of neutrals on chromospheric physics. Consequently, he is part of the Bifrost development team and the lead of the one of its kind multi-fluid multi-species numerical code Ebysus. In addition, he has large experience on performing IRIS planining, analyzing observations and compare with numerical models including observatories such as SDO, Hinode, IRIS, ALMA, and ground based observatories such as SST. On top of this, he is highly involved on the development of MUSE (NASA MIDEX program) as science deputy lead. 

Major Awards
  • Metcalf Travel Award to attend the IAU General Assembly in Beijing in August 2012.
Publications