Dr. Shahab Fatemi

Biography

Shahab Fatemi is an Associate Professor leading the Computational Space Physics research group, focusing on plasma interactions with planetary bodies through simulations of spacecraft data. He obtained his Ph.D. in Space Science Technology from Luleå University of Technology in 2014, with a thesis titled 'Kinetic Modeling of Solar Wind Plasma Interaction with the Moon'. Following his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and at NASA's SSERVI Ames Center for three years. In 2017, Fatemi returned to the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna, where he supported the Swedish ion instrument onboard ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury and acted as a co-investigator for NASA's Lunar Vertex mission to the Moon, scheduled for launch in 2025. As an expert in developing high-performance parallel algorithms for space plasma simulations, he is the founder of the Amitis model, which is a hybrid-kinetic plasma model capable of running in parallel on multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using C++, CUDA, and MPI. He teaches undergraduate courses such as 'Spacecraft Technology Design' and 'Research Topics in Physics', and supervises Ph.D. students, postdocs, and undergraduates in the field of space physics.

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