Reetika Joshi

Academic interests

My main research area is focused on the multi-wavelength study of solar jets with space-borne instruments, i.e. Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), and Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO). In addition with space-borne data, I am working on the the ground based observations in optical filters for photospheric and chromospheric study. IRIS with its high spatial and temporal resolution brings exceptional diagnostics of the two dimensional dynamics of solar activity in the solar chromosphere (surge) and the corona (jets). Hence I along with the scientific collaborators are focusing on the imaging and spectroscopy analysis of solar jets with the IRIS instrument data. Presently, we are working for combining the observations from the space-borne satellites with the high resolution Swedish 1­m Solar Telescope observations.

Background

I did my B.Sc. (2012) and M.Sc. (2014) from Kumaun University, Nainital, India with Physics as a major subject.  I joined as a Ph.D. candidate in August 2015 with Prof. Ramesh Chandra in the Department of Physics, DSB Campus, Kumaun University, Nainital, India. During my Ph.D. I worked on the  "Study of Solar Jets and Related Flares" with different space-borne and ground based instruments. 

Awards

• IAC early-career visitor fellowship 
• Best Ph.D. thesis At-large award 2021 by International Astronomical Union (IAU)

• The Raman Charpak Fellowship by the Indo French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/ CEFIPRA)

• The Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) visiting scholar fellowship by International Council for Science (ICSU)

Appointments

• February 2022 - Present: Postdoc Researcher at Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS), University of Oslo.

• 2016 - 2021: INSPIRE  Research Fellow by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, Govt. of India at  Kumaun University, Nainital, India.

• January - May 2020: Raman Charpak Fellow with Drs. Guillaume Aulanier and Brigitte Schmieder at Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France.

• September - October 2019: SCOSTEP visiting fellow at University of Science and Technology, Hefei, China with Prof. Yuming Wang.

Positions held

• Postdoctoral researcher at  Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS), University of Oslo (February 2022 to present).
• Ph.D. Student at Kumaun University, Nainital, India (2015-2021)