Employment

• University of Colorado Boulder Research associate
  2015 - Present
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Postdoctoral researcher
  2014 - 2015

Education

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven PhD/Multi-scale kinetic simulations with iPic3D - from spacecraft charging to the solar wind interaction with lunar magnetic anomalies
  2010 - 2014
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Master in Astronomy and Astrophysics/PG1018-047: the longest period subdwarf B binary
  2008 - 2010

Projects & Funding

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Publications (96)

• The Influence of Topography and Crustal Magnetic Anomalies on the Distribution of Water Ice in the Lunar South Pole Region
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 2026 DOI: 10.1029/2026JE009774
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• Testing spacecraft charging predictions as Parker Solar Probe approaches the Sun
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202557024
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• The Role of Crustal Magnetic Anomalies and Topography in Shaping Lunar South Polar Water Ice
  2026 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-8795
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• Detectability of Dust and Ion Tails of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS by Europa Clipper
  Hsiang‐Wen Hsu, Jan Deca, M. Horányi +4 more
  Research Notes of the AAS 2025 DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/ae2120
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• Observational Characteristics of Electron Distributions in the Martian Induced Magnetotail
  Chi Zhang, Chuanfei Dong, Hongyang Zhou

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  • Jan Deca
  • Shaosui Xu
  • Yuki Harada
  • Shannon Curry
  • David L. Mitchell
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  Geophysical Research Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1029/2024GL113030
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• A fully kinetic perspective on weakly active comets: Asymmetric outgassing
  Planetary and Space Science 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2025.106064
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• Cold ion crescent echoes in the exhaust of symmetric magnetic reconnection
  Physics of Plasmas 2023 DOI: 10.1063/5.0155958
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• Solar-wind electron precipitation on weakly magnetized bodies: The planet Mercury
  Astronomy and Astrophysics 2023 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245711
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• The Plasma Environment of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
  Space Science Reviews 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s11214-022-00931-1
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• A Fully Kinetic Perspective on Weakly Active Comets: Symmetric versus Asymmetric Outgassing
  2022 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-1814
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• Dust Rotation and Swirl Morphology in Lunar Magnetic Anomalies
  Geophysical Research Letters 2022 DOI: 10.1029/2022GL097942
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• Laboratory Simulation of Solar Wind Interaction With Lunar Magnetic Anomalies
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 2022 DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029821
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• A collisional test-particle model of electrons at a comet
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac055
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• Cometary plasma science: Open science questions for future space missions
  Experimental Astronomy 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s10686-021-09783-z
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• Electron dynamics in small magnetospheres Insights from global, fully kinetic plasma simulations of the planet Mercury
  Astronomy and Astrophysics 2022 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243911
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• Electron dynamics in small magnetospheres: insights from global fully-kinetic plasma simulations of planet Mercury
  arXiv 2022
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• Investigating Mercury's Environment with the Two-Spacecraft BepiColombo Mission
  arXiv 2022 DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.13243
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• Solar wind interaction with a comet: evolution, variability, and implication
  arXiv 2022 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2211.04887
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• Solar-wind electron precipitation on weakly magnetized bodies: the planet Mercury
  arXiv 2022 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2209.08517
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• The Plasma Environment Surrounding the Reiner Gamma Magnetic Anomaly
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 2021 DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029180
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