Tuija Pulkkinen
Chair, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department
Location
1521B Climate & Space Research Building 2455 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
Additional Title(s)
Professor
Primary Website
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Education
- 1992, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Theoretical Physics
- 1987, Master of Science, University of Helsinki, Theoretical Physics
Research Interests
Research interests comprise space plasma physics, especially Sun-Earth connection processes:
- Energy transfer processes from the solar wind to the magnetosphere – ionosphere system;
- Effects of large solar disturbances in the magnetosphere and ionosphere;
- Auroral processes and their relationship to magnetotail dynamics;
- Storm and substorm effects in the magnetotail, in the inner magnetosphere and in the ionosphere;
- Long-term solar variability effects in the geoefficiency of the solar wind driving;
- Space weather effects of solar wind driven magnetospheric dynamics.
Research methodologies include:
- Empirical modeling of the space environment;
- Development of quantitative analysis methods for global MHD simulations;
- Multi-instrument data analysis using space-borne and ground-based instruments.
Biography
Previous positions:
- 2010-2018, Vice President for Research and Innovation, Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering, Professor at the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
- 1988-2010, Programme head, Research Professor, Scientist, Finnish Meteorological Institut, Helsinki, Finland
- 2005-2006, Orson Anderson Visiting Professor, IGPP, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (12 months)
- 1996-1997, Fulbright Scholar and Research Associate, LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (16 months)
- 1990-1992, Visiting Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (6 months total)
Publications
- ISI researcher ID: D-8403-2012
- ORCID: 0000-0002-6317-381X
- Google Scholar: Tuija Pulkkinen
