Dr. Elvira Astafyeva, CNRS
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Dr. Elvira Astafyeva

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  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
  • AcademiaNet member since 20.10.2016
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Employed by

  • CNRS


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics


Field

Environment



Area of specialisation

Earth and the Terrestrial Planets: structure, history and models



Research interests

  • Ionospheric response to earthquakes, tsunami propagation and volcano eruptions. Acoustic-gravity waves, shock waves, Rayleigh surface waves in the ionosphere. Ionospheric Seismology.

  • Ionospheric response to geomagnetic storms (ionospheric storms). Solar activity and ionosphere. Global electron content of the ionosphere. Ionospheric response to Solar flares.

  • Space Weather. GNSS performance during geomagnetically disturbed conditions and during Solar radio bursts.



Distinctions and Awards

  • Médaille de Bronze CNRS, 2016

  • "Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists" from COSPAR, 2008

  • URSI Young Scientist Award, URSI, New Delhi, 2005



Languages

English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian



Doctorate

  • 2005: Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Mid-latitude Ionosperic Disturbances as Deduced from GPS-measurements of Total Electron Content




Short CV/Education and training

Education

  • 2001
    M.S., Department of Physics, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia, Diploma with honours in Radiophysics and Electronics; Thesis: "Luminescence of alkali-halide and alkali-earth crystals"

  • 2005
    Ph.D. in Atmosphere Physics, Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP), Irkutsk

Positions occupied

  • 2001 – 2005
    PhD Student at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk, Russia

  • 2005 – 2012
    Researcher at the ISTP, Irkutsk, Russia

  • 2007 – 2009
    PostDoc at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (JSPS Fellowship)

  • 2009 – 2012
    PostDoc at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Paris, France (CNES and ANR funding)

  • Since 2012
    Tenured Researcher for the CNRS at the IPGP

Selected publications

Selected projects

  • ERC Starting Grant 2012 – 2018, European Research Council, project "SIREAL", Principal Investigator

Membership in scientific bodies/juries

  • Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), since 2007

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, since 2016

  • Vice-President of the French National URSI Commission G, since 2016

  • Member of a Science Advisory Board for the "Sun-Heliosphere-Magnetosphere" Group for the French Space Agency (CNES), since 2015

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