Viggo Hansteen

Viggo Hansteen is currently a senior researcher at SETI Institute, with workplace at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysical Laboratory where he is science lead of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission, and in addition is working on preparations related to the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE). Most of his career, 1997 -  2019 was spent as a professor at the University of Oslo, where he specialised on constructing numerical models of the outer region of the Sun. He is one of the main developers of the Bifrost code. He has also spent time as a post-doc at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, CO, at the Mullard Space Science lab preparing for Hinode/EIS in Surrey, UK, and as a visiting professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, in Tokyo. His interests include coronal heating, chromospheric dynamics and the interactions between the photosphere and the outer layers of the Sun.

Alternative contact email: viggoh@gmail.com