Issue 1, 2014
Cecilia Rorai
Astrophysics and Condensed Matter Physics
Cecilia received her PhD in January 2012 from the University of Maryland and the University of Trieste, for work on "Vortex Reconnection in Superfluid Helium" under the guidance of Michael E. Fisher, Daniel P. Lathrop, and K. R. Sreenivasan. Following her PhD studies she was a postdoctoral fellow at National Center of Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. She joined Nordita in March 2013 as a postdoctoral fellow working on a VR sponsored project to study the nature of turbulence in complex fluids. At Nordita Cecilia plans to work in close collaboration with D. Mitra (Nordita) and L. Brandt (KTH, Mechanics).
Stanislav Borysov
Condensed Matter Physics
Stanislav received his PhD in theoretical physics at the Institute of Applied Physics of National Academic of Science of Ukraine in 2011; the subject was statistical analysis of complex systems and hierarchical structures using non-Gaussian power-law distributions. After that he worked at Samsung Electronics as a researcher and software engineer. In 2012 he became a postdoc at KTH/Nordita. The current research interests of Stanislav are nonlinear problems in atomic force microscopy and applying machine learning tools to the search of new materials based on first principles calculations.
Illa R. Losada
Astrophysics
Illa started her PhD studies in January after concluding her masters degree at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). At Nordita Illa will work within the VR-supported project on the "Formation of active regions in the Sun", where the goal is to develop the foundations of a radically new suggestion for the formation of active regions in the Sun, based on the recent detection of an instability of strongly stratified turbulence in the presence of a weak magnetic field, which is now called the negative effective magnetic pressure instability (NEMPI). Illa already visited Nordita in May and November to work on the NEMPI effect.
Ahmet Devlen
Astrophysics
Ahmet received his PhD from the University of Ege in 2001, where he has been an Assistant Professor since 2003. In March 2013 he joined Nordita as visiting scientist. Ahmet is working in the field of variable stars and eclipsing variables, Algols and semi-regular variables. He conducts photometric and spectroscopic observations of variable stars and is analyzing their light curves, investigating period changes and magnetic activity. He is interested in the structure of accretion disks in the binaries, the magnetic activity cycle periods of Algol stars, nondimensional parameterizations of dynamo and activity quantities, and the development of theoretical models of light curves of Algol systems with accretion discs.
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