Heliophysics

Sanjiv Tiwari

Senior Research Scientist

Disciplines: Heliophysics

Degree/Major: Ph.D.

Role: Scientist

Biography

Sanjiv Tiwari is a Senior Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL). He received his PhD in 2010 from the Physical Research Laboratory/Udaipur Solar Observatory (and Mohanlal Sukhadia University), for which he was bestowed with the Justice Oak Best PhD Thesis Award of the Year by the Astronomical Society of India. He joined the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany as a postdoctoral researcher in January 2011. In December 2013 he moved to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, subsequently continuing at MSFC (and as a Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville) until May 2017. He joined LMSAL in June 2017, where he serves on the science and/or operations teams of IRIS, Hinode/SOT, and MUSE. Dr. Tiwari is also a team member of several Hi-C sounding-rocket flights. His research interests include the structure and dynamics of sunspots, fine-scale and global coronal heating in active and quiet solar regions, and the origins of space weather.

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