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Dr Florian Koller

Florian

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Email: f.koller@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Room 504, G.O. Jones Building

Profile

Hi, I am a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Space and Astrophysical Plasma Physics Group, working in the team of Dr. Christopher Chen. I joined Queen Mary University of London after completing my PhD in 2024 at the University of Graz, Austria. Apart from my research work on space plasmas in the heliosphere, I am a live-long space enthusiast with an interest in astronomy and astrophotography.

Research

Research Interests:

My research tackles the plasma between the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field with all its intricacies, primarily based on in-situ spacecraft measurements. I analyse effects under the lens of cross-disciplinary approaches, highlighting the connections of different fields of solar, heliospheric, and magnetospheric physics. The following points are some of the research focuses of my current and previous works:

  • Effects of large-scale solar wind structures on the near-Earth plasma environment, specifically on the bow shock and magnetosheath
  • Emergence of magnetosheath jets and how they interact with the surrounding plasma
  • Investigate plasma instability and turbulence in the magnetosheath
  • A broad interest in solar and stellar activity, specifically stellar flares and coronal mass ejections

Publications

Koller, F., Raptis, S., Temmer, M., Karlsson, T. (2024). The Effect of Fast Solar Wind on Ion Distribution Downstream of Earth’s Bow Shock.
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 964, L5, doi: 3847/2041-8213/ad2ddf

Koller, F., Plaschke, F., Temmer, M., Preisser, L., Roberts, O. and Vörös, Z. (2023). Magnetosheath Jet Formation influenced by Parameters in Solar Wind Structures.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2023JA031339, doi: 1029/2023JA031339

Koller, F., Temmer, M., Preisser, L., Plaschke, F.,Geyer, P.,Jian, L. K., Roberts, O.W., Hietala, H., LaMoury, A. T. (2022). Magnetosheath jet occurrence rate in relation to CMEs and SIRs.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,127, e2021JA030124, doi: 1029/2021JA030124

Koller F., Leitzinger M., Temmer M., Odert P., Beck P. G., Veronig A. (2021). Search for flares and associated CMEs on late-type main-sequence stars in optical SDSS spectra.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 646 A34, doi: 1051/0004-6361/202039003

You can find a full list of my publications on Google Scholar

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