Anwesha Maharana will be conducting research over the next two years at the Institute for Theoretical Physics I.
Astrophysics
Anwesha Maharana is researching the weather in space
The researcher will remain at Ruhr University until the end of May 2028.
Anwesha Maharana has been awarded a Humboldt Postdoc Fellowship and will be conducting research over the next two years at the Institute for Theoretical Physics I under the supervision of Maria Elena Innocenti. We’d like to introduce our guest in the form of a profile.
Name: Anwesha Maharana
Specialization: Space Weather (Plasma Astrophysics)
Hometown: Bhubaneswar, India
Type of scholarship: Humboldt Postdoc Fellowship
Host: Professor Maria Elena Innocenti, Institute for Theoretical Physics I
Duration of stay: June 1, 2026 until May 31, 2028
Research Focus and Main Purpose of Stay at Ruhr University: Integrating turbulence in magnetohydrodynamic simulations to model the geomagnetic impact of turbulent sheaths of coronal mass ejections for next-gen space weather forecasting.
