Dr. Artem Smirnov
Building
A 42,
Room
207 (Büro)
Albert-Einstein-Straße 42-46
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
Postdoctoral researcher working on satellite data analysis and data-driven modeling of the near-Earth space environmentResearch Interests:
Machine learning modeling of the plasma populations in geospace
Career:
- March 2023 - present - GFZ (Section 2.7 Space Physics and Space Weather) and LMU Munich (Dept. of Geophysics) - Postdoctoral researcher
- October 2019 - October 2023 - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 2.7 Space Physics and Space Weather - PhD student
- January 2018 - July 2019 - Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Department Planets and Comets - Guest graduate assistant
- September 2016 - June 2017 - Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Geoinformatics and Geomagnetic Studies - Junior researcher
- July 2016 - September 2016 -Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Geoinformatics and Geomagnetic Studies - Intern
Education:
- 2019 - 2023 - University of Potsdam, PhD in Computational Physics
- 2017 - 2019 - Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and Technical University of Munich (TUM), M.Sc. in Geophysics with specialization in Geomagnetism
- 2013 - 2017 - Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), B.Sc. in Geophysics
Research Boards and Committees:
Helmholtz Junior (02/2021- 07/2022) - the representative of doctoral researchers in the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
ISSI team member: "Imaging the Invisible: Unveiling the Global Structure of the Earth's Dynamic Magnetosphere" (2021-2022)
Reviewer: Geophysical Research Letters (AGU), Space Weather (AGU) - frequent reviewer, JGR Space Physics (AGU), Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Advances in Space Research (COSPAR)
Awards:
- URSI Young Scientist Award (2023)
- EGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA), 2023
- JGR's top downloaded paper (1st author) - Intercalibration of the plasma density measurements in Earth's topside ionosphere (2021)
- JGR's top downloaded paper (co-author) - Preliminary statistical comparisons of spin-averaged electron data from Arase and Van Allen Probes missions (2021)
- JGR's top downloaded paper (co-author) - Energetic charged particles in the terrestrial magnetosphere: Cluster/RAPID results (2021)
- JGR's top 10% most downloaded papers (1st author) - Adiabatic invariants Calculations for Cluster Mission: A Long-term Product for Radiation Belts Studies (2020)
During M.Sc. studies at the University of Munich:
- Final grade for the M.Sc. thesis project - 1.0 (A+)
During B.Sc. studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University:
- Best bachelor's thesis in Geophysics - award from Russian Academy of Sciences' Council on Physics of the Solid Earth (2017)
- Merit-based faculty scholarship recipient (2017)
- Industry scholarship - Mikhail Rudyak's scholarship (2017)
- Dean's award at the Lomonosov-2017 conference
- Dean's award at the "Day of Science" conference (2016)