Ijas Shaji Mytheen

Ijas Shaji Mytheen

PhD student

Supervisor: Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (Erdélyi), (2029)

Department of Astronomy
Solar Physics and Space Plasma Group

Room: Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building 6.119
Email: uh.etle.tneduts@neehtymssaji

Biography:

PhD Student, Department of Astronomy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Research Group: Solar Physics and Space Plasma Group

Research Interests:
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in the solar atmosphere; solar plasma dynamics; wave instabilities and dissipation mechanisms; magnetic field modeling in the solar corona; space weather; data-driven modeling using high-resolution solar observations and machine learning.

Education:

Ph.D. in Astronomy (ongoing) – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Topic: Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in the Solar Atmosphere
Supervisor: Prof. Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (Erdélyi)

M.Sc. in Physics – Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India
Thesis: Modeling the Solar Coronal Magnetic Field using the Helmholtz Equation

Research Experience:

Research Internship, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore, India – Solar Physics Division
Supervisor: Prof. Piyali Chatterjee
Worked on solar magnetic field modelling; contributed to two research papers (under review).

Minor Project – Prediction of Cloud Microproperties from the CERES Radiative Flux using Machine Learning
Applied ANN, GRU, and LSTM models to satellite data for cloud-radiation interaction studies.

Publications (under review):

Evolution of Reconnection Flux during Eruption of Magnetic Flux Ropes – contributed to torus instability analysis.

Prediction of Cloud Microproperties from the CERES Radiative Flux using Machine Learning – applied ML to satellite data analysis.

Awards and Grants:

Recipient of the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship for Doctoral Studies in Solar Physics, 2025.

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Selected publications of recent years: