Raluca Ilie

My primary research interest is to gain better understanding of the controlling mechanisms for the solar wind-magnetospheric interactions, storm time inner magnetosphere (ring current, plasma sheet) dynamics and morphology and the physics of geomagnetic storms. My research experience is centered on various aspects of solar-terrestrial physics. These include three-dimensional global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) magnetospheric modeling, kinetic drift physics simulations of ge- omagnetic storms, as well as data analysis and interpretation from the TWINS energetic neutral atom imagers.