Jacob Heerikhuisen

Assistant Professor Office: OB 334 Phone: 256-824-4661 Email: jacob.heerikhuisen@uah.edu

Research Areas

• Interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium.

• The role of energetic neutral atoms in shaping the heliosphere, and what their properties can tell us about the distant solar wind.

• Interstellar dust in the inner heliosphere and its properties as a function of the topology of the heliospheric interface.

• Magnetic reconnection as an energy release mechanism in the solar corona.

Education

• BCMS, University of Waikato, New Zealand (1996)

• MCMS, University of Waikato, New Zealand (1997)

• Ph.D.,  University of Waikato, New Zealand (2001)