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Athina Meli

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Present Status

Dr. Athina Meli holds a professorship of Astronomy in the North Carolina A&T State University, USA, while she is an affiliated research scientist in the University of Liege, Belgium.

She is an appointed member and Chair of the NASA's Executive Committee for the Physics of the Cosmos (PhysPAG) analysis group. She holds also the chair for the PhysPAG Cosmic-Ray Science Interest Group (CR SIG).

She studies the mechanisms of the origin and acceleration of the high energy cosmic-rays  using phenomenology and simulations. Her research interests include relativistic Particle-in-Cell simulations of astrophysical plasma jets  in extragalactic Active Galactic nuclei, by investigating the  effects the magnetized jets have into the acceleration of particles.  She is also researching the phenomenological role that the cosmic rays plays to the multi-messenger astrophysical aspects which connect cosmic-rays, gamma-rays, neutrinos and gravitational waves from relativistic extragalactic sources. Recently she joined the POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) experiment, the Vera C. Rubin Telescope Observatory (LSST) Transients and Variable Stars Science Collaboration and she is a working-group member of the Athena X-ray Observatory. She is a co-founder of the Cosmoparticle Network and member of the scientific committee. She serves as the Editor and/or reviewer for several well-known international scientific peer-reviewed journals.

Research interests

1. Astro-particle physics and High-Energy Astrophysics

2. Space plasmas - Jet physics

3. Cosmic-ray acceleration in relativistic plasmas and extragalactic jets

4. Radiation processes in Super Novae, Active Galactic Nuclei and Gamma-Ray-Bursts environments

5. Computational modelling and simulations

6. Gravitational waves from SMBHs

Past Experience

Dr. Athina Meli received her PhD in Astrophysics from the prestigious Blackett Laboratory of Imperial College London. She has conducted awarded research in the internationally known Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy Bonn. She has also taught and conducted research in University of Athens, Imperial College London, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, University of Dortmund and University of Gent. For many years she has been studying the relativistic acceleration mechanisms of high energy Cosmic-rays and the phenomenological properties of relativistic extragalactic sources. She has been a member, and presently partner, of major international cosmic-ray and neutrino observatory experiments such as AUGER, IceCube, Antares, Km3net.

List of publications

ADS Astrophysics Data System

Address

North Carolina A&T State University
College of Science and Technology
Department of Physics
Marteena Hall
Greensboro
NC 27411
United States

Email: ameli @ ncat.edu


&

Space sciences & Technologies for Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute
Universite de Liege
Sart Tilman, 4000 Liege
Belgium

Email: ameli @uliege.be

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