John Dorelli

About John Dorelli

I am a theoretical/computational physicist in the Geospace Physics Lab at NASA\'s Goddard…

Experience

1. Space Scientist

   NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

   Mar 2009 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Solar and magnetospheric physics research, plasma simulation software development, high performance computing, spacecraft data analysis, simulation of spacecraft hardware• Mission Scientist (providing oversight and science support) for the TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission• Principal Investigator for multiple NASA projects to study the interaction between the solar wind and Earth\'s magnetosphere• Developed software to simulate the Fast Plasma Investigation (FPI), a suite of Electrostatic Plasma Analyzers flown on NASA\'s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission• Developed science data production and in-flight calibration software for the FPI instrument on the MMS mission• Led an effort to develop plasma simulation software on NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units using CUDA• Led an effort to develop Physics Informed Neural Network (PINN) methods for analyzing MMS data• Mentored undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers

Education

• University of Iowa

  PhD, Physics

  1993 — 1999

• Purdue University

  BS, Physics

  1989 — 1993

Skills

• Software Engineering
• Fortran
• C++
• Simulations
• Vtk
• Python
• Cuda
• Gpu
• Object Oriented Design
• Scientific Visualization
• Machine Learning
• Piano Performance
• Theoretical Physics
• Scientific Computing
• Data Analysis
• Parallel Algorithms
• Idl Programming
• Design Patterns
• High Performance Computing
• Partial Differential Equations
• Cfd
• Mpi
• Computational Physics
• University Teaching
• C
• Programming
• Statistical Physics
• Plasma Physics
• High Performance Computing (Hpc)
• C/C++ Stl
• Grid Computing
• Idl
• Applied Mathematics