NAME:Timo Pitkänen
Visiting Research Scientist
Education:
- PhD in Physics/Space Physics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, June 2011
- MSc in Physics/Space Physics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, October 2005
Previous Positions
- Visiting Research Scientist, 09/2017-present, Shandong University at Weihai, China
- Researcher, 2015-2017, Umeå University, Sweden
- Post-doctoral researcher, 2013-2015, Umeå University, Sweden
- Post-doctoral researcher and part-time teacher 2011-2012, University of Oulu, Finland
- Junior researcher and teaching assistant 2005-2011, University of Oulu, Finland
Selected Publications (from > 25 refereed publications)
- (Invited) Pitkänen, T., M. Hamrin, T. Karlsson, H. Nilsson, and A. Kullen, On IMF By-induced dawn-dusk asymmetries in earthward convective fast flows, AGU Monograph on Dawn-dusk asymmetry in planetary plasma environments (eds. S. Haaland, A. Runov, and C. Forsyth), in press 2017
- Pitkänen, T., M. Hamrin, A. Kullen, R. Maggiolo, T. Karlsson, H. Nilsson, and P. Norqvist, Response of magnetotail twisting to variations in IMF By: A THEMIS case study 1-2 January 2009, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 7822-7830, doi:10.1002/2016GL070068, 2016
- Pitkänen, T., M. Hamrin, P. Norqvist, T. Karlsson, and H. Nilsson, IMF dependence of the azimuthal direction of earthward magnetotail fast flows, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 5598-5604, doi: 10.1002/2013GL058136, 2013
- Pitkänen, T., M. Hamrin, P. Norqvist, T. Karlsson, H. Nilsson, A. Kullen, S. M. Imber, and S. E. Milan, Azimuthal velocity shear within an Earthward fast flow – further evidence for magnetotail untwisting?, Annales Geophysicae, 33, 245-255, doi:10.5194/angeo-33-245-2015, 2015
- Pitkänen, T., A. T. Aikio, and L. Juusola, Observations of polar cap flow channel and plasma sheet flow bursts during substorm expansion, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, 118, 774-784, doi: 10.1002/jgra.50119, 2013
- Pitkänen, T., A. T. Aikio, O. Amm, K. Kauristie, H. Nilsson, and K. U. Kaila, EISCAT-Cluster observations of quiet-time near-Earth magnetotail fast flows and their signatures in the ionosphere, Annales Geophysicae, 29, 299-319, doi:10.5194/angeo-29-299-2011, 2011
Grants
- Project grant 110/14 (co-I), Swedish National Space Board, 2015-2016
- Scholarship of doctoral and post-doctoral research, Väisälä Foundation/Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2011
Teaching Experiences
- Teaching assistant in El- och vågrörelselära (Electromagnetism and wave motion), Umeå University, 2017
- Fluid Mechanics, Umeå University, 2016
- Visiting lecturer in Electrodynamics with vector analysis, and in Space physics with measuring techniques, Umeå University, 2015
- Teaching duties (exercises, …) in various basic, intermediate and advanced courses including Mathematics for physics, Wave motion, Electromagnetism, Basics of space physics, Plasma physics, Fundamentals of incoherent scatter radar, University of Oulu, 2005-2012
National/International Activities
- Co-convener, chair and OSPA liason of a poster session SA23B Inter-hemispheric differences in high-latitude geospace, AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec 12 – 16, 2016
- Chair of an oral session A23b Different Response Modes of the Magnetosphere to Solar Wind Driving, 26th IUGG General Assembly 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, Jun 22 – Jul 2, 2015
- Co-PI of the nordic NISSE rocket experiment in the REXUS BEXUS student sounding rocket and balloon experiment program by German Aerospace Center (DLR), Swedish National Spaceboard (SNSB), Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and ESA Education Office, 2008-2009
- Member of Local Organising Committee of the 13th EISCAT International Workshop, Mariehamn, Åland Islands, Finland, Aug 6-10, 2007
- Participation in nine Finnsih EISCAT incoherent scatter radar measurement campaigns, EISCAT Tromsø and Svalbard sites, Norway, 2004-2011
Fields of Interest
- Solar wind-geospace coupling
- Magnetotail dynamics
- Auroral ionosphere
