Staff Scientist
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723-6099
Education:
Ph.D. 1991, Physics
M.S. 1986, Physics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
B.S. 1983, Physics and Math
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Positions Held:
1998-Present: Staff Scientist, JHU/APL.
1995-97: Post-Doctoral Research Associate JHU/APL.
1992-95: National Research Council Research Associate, NASA/Goddard
1883-91: Research and Teaching Assistant, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Selected Publications:
- Sotirelis T., and P. T. Newell, "Boundary-oriented electron precipitation model", submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 1999.
- Sotirelis T., P. T. Newell, C.-I. Meng, and M. Hairston, "Low altitude signatures of magnetotail reconnection", J. Geophys. Res., 104, 17311, 1999.
- Sotirelis T. and C.-I. Meng, "Magnetopause from pressure balance", J. Geophys. Res., 104, 6889, 1999.
- Boardsen, S. A., T. E. Eastman, T. Sotirelis, and J. L. Green, "An empirical model of the high latitude magnetopause", submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 1999.
- Sotirelis T., P. T. Newell, and C.-I. Meng, "The shape of the open-closed boundary of the polar cap as determined from observations of precipitating particles by up to four DMSP satellites", J. Geophys. Res., 103, 399, 1998.
- Sotirelis T., P. T. Newell, and C.-I. Meng, "Polar rain as a diagnostic of recent rapid dayside merging", J. Geophys. Res., 102, 7151, 1997.
- Sotirelis, T., "The shape and field of the magnetopause as determined by pressure balance", J. Geophys. Res., 101, 15255, 1996.
- Sotirelis, T., N. A. Tsyganenko, and D. P. Stern, "Method for confining the magnetic field of the cross-tail current inside the magnetopause", J. Geophys. Res., 99, 19393, 1994.
- Sotirelis, T., "The quark self-energy in a truncated bag model: a study of higher order effects in perturbative QCD", Phys. Rev. D, 47, 4102, 1993.
- Golowich, E. and T. Sotirelis, "O(alpha^2) mass contributions to the H dibaryon in a truncated bag model", Phys. Rev. D, 46, 354, 1992.