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Sae Aizawa
CNRS researcher
Space Plasma Team
Email : sae.aizawa lpp.polytechnique.fr
Office : Aile 5 10 95A
Tel : +33-(0)1-6933 5854
École Polytechnique, route de Saclay, F-91128, Palaiseau
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Scientific Interests
- Solar Wind interaction with Planetary environment (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter ...)
- Plasma acceleration/heating and transport via plasma instabilities, wave-particle interactions
- Atmospheric escape from unmagnetized planets
- Development of numerical simulations
- Space missions, instrumentation, calibration, in-situ data analysis
Professional Experience
- 2023 Dec – present : Chargée de recherche at CNRS
- 2022 Apr – 2023 Nov : JSPS research fellow, ISAS/JAXA (Japan) & University of Pisa (Italy)
- 2019 May – 2022 Apr : Post-doctorate, IRAP, Toulouse, France
Education
- 2016 Apr - 2019 Mar : PhD in Physics/Geophysics (double degree), Tohoku University in Japan & EDPIF Sorbonne Université in France
- 2014 Apr - 2016 Mar : Master degree in Geophysics, Tohoku University in Japan
- 2010 Apr - 2014 Mar : B.S. in Physics at Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Responsabilities
At LPP
- Member of LPP "Communication & Outreach" group
Space mission/Instrument
- Depty PI of M-MSA of M-MATISSE mission (ESA M7 Phase A)
- Co-Investigator of MSA of Mio/BepiColombo (2023 - present)
- Co-Investigator of MEA of Mio/BepiColombo (2019 - present)
- Associate Scientist/Co-Investigator of PWI of Mio/BepiColombo (2022 - present)
- Associate Scientist of RPWI of JUICE (2022 - present)
- Responsible for producing the SPICE kernel (CK) for Mio (2021 - present)
Working Groups
- Chair of Hermean Environment Working Group of BepiColombo (with A. Milillo and L. Hadid) (2022 - present)
- Chair of Young Scientist Study Group of BepiColombo (with D. Schmid, M. Moroni, and Y. Suzuki) (2024 - present)
- Lead of SHOTS of BepiColombo (2018 - 2022)
Teaching/Supervising Experience
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L3
- Lucas Federspiel (2023) : Identifying Heliospheric Current Sheets crossings from in situ observations
Master Level
- Tibault Menez (2021) : Development of LatHyS global hybrid simulation to study the solar wind interaction with Venusian environment
- Maria Chloi Katrougkalou (2022) : Study of the Response of Venus’ Induced Magnetosphere under Extreme Solar Wind and Characterization of its Atmospheric Escape
- Erwan Jariel (2022) : Adaptation of Multi-Grid Numerical Techniques in the LatHyS Hybrid Simulation Code
Award
- Kamide Lecture Award in Planetary Science division, AOGS August 2022
Outreach
- Speed-searching, La Nuit Européenne des chercheurs, Toulouse, France, September, 2021
- ISAS/JAXA online talk event for BepiColombo 1st Mercury flyby, October 2021 and Youtube event for 2nd Mercury flyby, June 2022
- Press release (Europlanet, JAXA) for the discovery of extended stagnation region at Venus by BepiColombo (Persson, Aizawa et al., 2022)
- Press release (ESA, JAXA) for the overview of plasma observation during the third Mercury flyby by BepiColombo (Hadid et al., 2024)
