Hello! My name is Eleanna Asvestari and I am an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. I get excited and intrigued by so many different research fields, but my primary love is the Sun and the space it dominates 🌞 At the moment I am working on modelling magneic fields in the solar corona and interplanetary space. My research spans a wide range of topics in the field of solar and space physics. I actively investigate the open flux emanating the solar atmosphere and filling the interplanetary space and I am involved in space weather modelling, often working with the data-driven MHD model EUHFORIA, which traces the evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and CME-driven shocks through realistic background solar wind conditions. My key focus is the spheromak magnetic field configuration and the physical processes that affect its evolution. The spheromak is one of the different structures employed in EUHFORIA in order to simulate CMEs as realistically as possible.
As a member of a minority “still” in academia and as someone who often experienced wellbeing issues in the academic environment I take great interest and I try to be educated on and be involved in efforts for improving inclusivity, diversity and the wellbeing. Thus, I am actively involved in the wellbeing groups of my faculty. I fall in the classical paradigm that “mainly people from within minority groups care and are advocates of the problems they face”; however, I hope that this will change soon, since the problems our colleagues face are indirectly our problems too.
