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Mihir I. Desai
 Adjoint Associate Professor (SwRI – Principal Scientist)
Ph.D., University of Birmingham, UK.

Experimental Space Physics and Space Flight Instrumentation
 
Office: SB 4.04.18A
Phone: (210) 522-6754
Email: mdesai@swri.edu

Research

  • Experimental solar and heliospheric Physics

  • Dynamics of planetary magnetospheres

  • Causes and effects of Space Weather

  • Design and development of novel space flight instruments

Teaching

I have recently (Spring 2006) joined the Department as an Adjoint Associate Professor. I am currently working with fellow space scientists at Southwest Research Institute and with faculty members of the Physics and Astronomy Department in developing UTSA’s first Graduate Program in Space Physics. While at University of Maryland, College Park, I mentored several undergraduate and graduate research projects, and I am looking forward to meeting and working with students and members of the department.

Selected Papers
  • Desai, M. I., G. M. Mason, J. E. Mazur, and J. R. Dwyer, “Solar Cycle Variations in the Composition of the Suprathermal Heavy Ion Population Near 1 AU,” Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 645, L81-L84, 2006.
  • G. M. Mason, M. I. Desai, C. M. S. Cohen, R. A. Mewaldt, E. C. Stone, and J. R. Dwyer, “The Role of Interplanetary Scattering in Western Hemisphere Large Solar Energetic Particle Events,” Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 647, L65-L68 2006.
  • Desai, M. I., G. M. Mason, R. E. Gold, S. M. Krimigis, C. M. S. Cohen, R. A. Mewaldt, J. E. Mazur, and J. R. Dwyer, “Heavy Ion Abundances in Large Solar Energetic Particle Events and Their Implications for the Seed Population,” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 649, 470-489, 2006.
  • Desai, M. I., G. M. Mason, J. E. Mazur, and J. R. Dwyer, “Origin of Heavy Ions in Upstream Events Near the Earth’s Bow Shock,” Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L18104, doi:10.1029/2006GL027277.
  • Desai, M. I., G. M. Mason, M. E. Wiedenbeck, C. M. S. Cohen, J. E. Mazur, J. R. Dwyer, R. E. Gold, S. M. Krimigis, Q. Hu, C. W. Smith, and R. M. Skoug, “Spectral properties of heavy ions associated with the passage of interplanetary shocks at 1 AU”, Astrophysical Journal, vol. 611, pp 1156-1174, 2004.
  • Desai, M. I., G. M. Mason, J. R. Dwyer, J. E. Mazur, R. E. Gold, S. M. Krimigis, C. W. Smith, and R. M. Skoug, “Evidence for a suprathermal seed population of heavy ions accelerated by interplanetary shocks near 1 AU”, Astrophysical Journal, 588, 1149-1162, 2003.
  • Desai, M. I., G. M. Mason, J. R. Dwyer, J. E. Mazur, C. W. Smith, and R. M. Skoug, Acceleration of 3He Ions at Interplanetary Shocks, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 553, L89-L91, 2001.

 

 

Last update: Monday January 15, 2007