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Ilan Roth
Associate Research Physicist
Space Sciences Laboratory
Dr. Ilan Roth has extensive experience in the application of analytical and numerical methods to problems in space physics: aurora, cusp, ring current, planets, solar and astrophysical environments. He is Co-Investigator on the Cluster satellites and is involved in the FAST, WIND and POLAR satellite projects. He is the co-author of the theory of the He-3 and heavy ions acceleration in solar flares as well as numerous magnetospheric acceleration processes from thermal auroral ions to relativistic electrons. He was also involved in an analysis of the recently discovered spikes on auroral field lines.