High Energy and Plasma Astrophysics Group (GAPAE)
Most of the visible matter in the Universe is in a plasma state, or more specifically is composed of ionized or partially ionized gas permeated by magnetic fields.
My group develops several correlated studies employing theoretical and numerical magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) description to investigate astrophysical plasmas and high energy phenomena. Our multi-dimensional MHD numerical simulations employ high performance computing (HPC) with sophisticated codes on studies of:
- Astrophysical jets
- Accretion disks around stars and black holes (microquasars, AGNs, GRBs, YSOs)
- Acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays
- Galactic and stellar winds and their feedback
- Role of turbulence and magnetic fields on star formation
- Solar and stellar dynamos
- Turbulent intra-cluster medium and cosmic magnetism
- Gamma-ray astrophysics
My group is also involved in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), an international collaboration aiming at the construction of a new generation of gamma ray telescopes—an array of 120 Cherenkov telescopes.
My group has obtained funding from FAPESP for the construction of the ASTRI Mini-Array of 9 Cherenkov telescopes, the CTA precursor.
Ongoing Supervisions
- Luis Kadowaki, PhD student, IAG-USP (CNPq) 2011–
- William Eduardo Clavijo Bohórquez, Master student IFUSP (CNPq) 2016–
- Tania Medina Torrejon, PhD student IFUSP, 2016–
- Claudio Melioli, Postdoctoral Fellow (FAPESP) 2012–2016 (concluded)
- Chandra Singh, Postdoctoral Fellow, FAPESP, 2013–
- Pankaj Kushwaha, Postdoctoral Fellow, FAPESP, 2016–
Former Graduate Students – PhD
- Behrouz Khiali (CNPq) USP 2015. Currently postdoc at CERN
- Gustavo Rocha da Silva (CNPq) USP 2014. Postdoc Princeton; Professor at Mackenzie
- Reinaldo Santos de Lima (FAPESP) USP 2013. Postdoc at Postdam & DESY
- Maria Victoria Del Valle (CNPq-TWAS) USP/La Plata 2014. Postdoc at Postdam
- Marcia Regina Moreira Leão (FAPESP) USP 2012; postdoc at Unicamp
- Gustavo Andres Guerrero (CNPq) USP 2009; Professor UFMG
- Cristian Giovani Bernal (CNPq) USP/Mexico 2009
- Claudio Melioli (CNPq) USP 2006
- Cristian R. Ghezzi (FAPESP) USP 2002; Professor Argentina
- Adriano Hoth Cerqueira (FAPESP) USP 2001
Former Graduate Students – Master
- Luis Henrique Sinki Kadowaki (CNPq) USP 2011
- Fernanda G. Geraissate (FAPESP) USP 2010
- Pamela Piovezan (FAPESP) USP 2008
- Márcia R. M. Leão (FAPESP) USP 2007
- Marcelle Soares Santos (FAPESP) USP 2006; FERMILAB
- Adriano Hoth Cerqueira (FAPESP) USP 1996
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
- Reinaldo S. de Lima (FAPESP) 2015
- Gustavo Andres Guerrero (FAPESP) 2014
- Claudio Melioli (FAPESP) 2016
- Maria Soledad Nakwacki (FAPESP) 2013
- Grzegorz Kowal (FAPESP) 2013
- Ericson Lopez (CNPq) 2003
- Ricardo Dominguez Gonzalez (FAPESP) 2005