Sami Solanki

Sami Khan Solanki ( born October 2, 1958 in Karachi / Pakistan ) is a Swiss astronomer and since 2001 Honorary Professor at the Institute of Astronomy at ETH Zurich and Director of the Department of Solar and Heliospheric Research at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.

Life

1987 doctorate Solanki at ETH Zurich. From 1987 to 1989 he was a post -doc in St. Andrews, Scotland. 1992 was the habilitation. In 1998, he was professor of astronomy at the University of Oulu in Finland. In 1999 he became a Minnaert visiting professor at the University of Utrecht. In the same year Solanki Director, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research was.

In 2001 he was awarded an honorary professorship at the ETH Zurich in 2003 was followed by another at the TU Braunschweig. 2006 Solanki Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society.

He is a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and chairman spokesman for the International Max Planck Research School on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond at the Universities of Braunschweig and Göttingen. He is chief editor of Living ReviewsTM in Solar Physics, an online Review-Journal on solar physics and related areas.

Work

Solankis research focuses on the physics of the Sun and the heliosphere, in particular solar magnetism and the Sun-Earth relations, the astrophysics of stars, in particular stellar activity and magnetism, astronomical tests of gravitational theories, atomic and molecular physics in terms of Astronomy, proto planetary rotating discs and extrasolar planetary systems and radiation transfer of polarized light.

He provided input to the observatory for the sun and heliosphere SOHO Virgo, STEREO Secchi, and to the observatory for solar dynamic SDO HMI.

Solankis research will be considered separately in the context of the controversy surrounding global warming. He sees a possible influence of the sun ... the influence of enhanced solar radiation on the ozone layer and the degree of cloud cover could affect the climate more than the sunlight itself but he keeps in the development since 1980, the human impact of priority. Solanki sees need for further research; the topic intensively in the context of climate change on geological time scales. A ' hard working mechanism ' is not found as before. The approaches of Solanki and similar by other researchers be considered in the IPCC reports, and a part of the solar contribution is recognized in addition to the major human causes.

Selected Publications

• Sami K. Solanki, Ilya G. Usoskin, Bernd Kromer, Manfred Schüssler, Jürg Beer: Unusual activity of the Sun falling on recent Decades Compared to the previous 11,000 years, Nature, vol 431 pp 2004. 1084-1087 PDF
• Sami K.Solanki, Natalia A. Krivova: Can solar variability explain global warming since 1970, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol? . 108 issue A5 pp. 7.1-7.8 2003 PDF
• Ilya G.Usoskin, Sami K.Solanki, Manfred Schüssler, Kalevi Mursula, Katja Alanko: A Millennium Scale Sunspot Number Reconstruction: Evidence For at Unusually Active Sun Since the 1940s, Physical Review Letters, vol. 91 2003 PDF
• Sami K. Solanki, JO Stenflo: Properties of solar magnetic fluxtubes as revealed by Fe I lines, Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 140 issue 1 pp 1984. 185-198 html