Tamas Gombosi

About

(i) A native of Hungary, Tamas Gombosi was educated in theoretical physics. He did his postdoctoral research at the Space Research Institute (IKI) in Moscow, Russia, under the direction of space pioneer Konstantin Gringauz and plasma physics theoreticians Albert Galeev, Roald Sagdeev and Vitaliy Shapiro.
(ii) His scientific contributions span from planetary exploration to theoretical space plasma physics, to kinetic theory and generalized transport equations, to global simulations of space plasmas. His recent interests focus on the development of high performance numerical codes and software frameworks for simulating space weather.
(iii) Participated in the Venera 9 and 10 and Pioneer-Venus Venus orbiters, the VEGA mission to comet Halley, the Dynamics Explorer mission to explore the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. Recent space missions include the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and its moon Titan, the Rosetta mission to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the STEREO mission to explore solar storms, and the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission.

Employment

• University of Michigan Konstantin I. Gringauz Distinguished University Professor of Space Science
  2014 - Present
• University of Michigan Rollin M. Gerstacker Endowed Professor of Engineering
  2007 - Present
• University of Michigan Professor and Chair
  2003 - 2011
• University of Michigan Professor
  1991 - Present
• University of Michigan Associate Professor
  1987 - 2001
• Central Research Institute for Physics Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Scientific Advisor
  1970 - 1987

Education

• Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Ph.D.
  1970 - 1974
• Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem M.S.
  1965 - 1970

Projects & Funding

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Publications (462)

• Identifying Solar Flare Precursors Using Time Series of SDO/HMI Images and SHARP Parameters
  Space Weather 2019 DOI: 10.1029/2019SW002214
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• Segmentation of SED by Boundary Flows Associated With Westward Drifting Partial Ring current
  Geophysical Research Letters 2019 DOI: 10.1029/2019GL084041
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• A six-moment multi-fluid plasma model
  Journal of Computational Physics 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2019.02.023
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• SPECTRUM: Synthetic Spectral Calculations for Global Space Plasma Modeling
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2019 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab16d0
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• MESSENGER Observations and Global Simulations of Highly Compressed Magnetosphere Events at Mercury
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 2019 DOI: 10.1029/2018JA026166
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• Extended MHD modeling of the steady solar corona and the solar wind
  Living Reviews in Solar Physics 2018 DOI: 10.1007/s41116-018-0014-4
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• Real‐Time SWMF at CCMC: Assessing the Dst Output From Continuous Operational Simulations
  Space Weather 2018 DOI: 10.1029/2018SW001953
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• Toward a Quantitative Model for Simulation and Forecast of Solar Energetic Particle Production during Gradual Events. I. Magnetohydrodynamic Background Coupled to the SEP Model
  The Astrophysical Journal 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad68d
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• On the origin of molecular oxygen in cometary comae
  Nature Communications 2018 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04972-5
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• A New 3D Multi-fluid Dust Model: A Study of the Effects of Activity and Nucleus Rotation on Dust Grain Behavior at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
  The Astrophysical Journal 2017 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa91ca
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