Soumyaranjan Dash

Soumyaranjan Dash’s research combines observations and theoretical modeling to study how magnetic fields evolve on the Sun and influence the surrounding space environment. By bringing together observations and simulations, his work helps reveal the physical processes that drive the Sun’s dynamic behavior and improves our ability to anticipate space-weather variations in our local space environment. Soumyaranjan earned his Ph.D. from IISER Kolkata, where he focused on predicting large-scale coronal magnetic structures using data-driven models for total solar eclipses. He subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Now, as a Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Solar Observatory, Soumyaranjan is leveraging cutting-edge observations obtained during the 2024 total solar eclipse with the US NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), alongside coordinated datasets from space-based and ground-based telescopes, to advance our understanding of the Sun’s outer atmosphere. In this role, he aims to investigate how magnetic forces work in the corona that motivates development of robust physics-based theoretical models of solar coronal magnetism.