CV
Nithin Sivadas
Postdoctoral Researcher
Catholic University of America
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Education
2014 - 2020 Ph.D. in Electrical Engg. (Space Physics)
Boston University
2012 - 2013 M. Tech. in Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
2008 - 2012 B. Tech in Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Teaching/Experience
2022 - Now Assistant Research Scientist
NASA GSFC & CUA
2020 - 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher
NASA GSFC & CUA
Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford
2019 Grader
Plasma Physics
2016-2017 Graduate Teaching Fellow
Senior Design Course for Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fall and Spring Semesters.
2013-2014 Project Officer
IIT Madras Student Satellite Program
2013 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Aerodynamics
2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Helicopter Aerodynamics
Grants & Awards
$462k "Quantifying Local and Global Controls of Solar-wind/
Magnetosphere Coupling"
2023 NASA ROSES Heliophysics Guest Investigator Grant (PI)
$413k "Rethinking Data-based Inferences Concerning the Geomagnetic Response to Extreme Space Weather"
2019 Student Travel Grant
IUGG, Montreal (~1000 CAD)
CEDAR Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
2nd place in Ionosphere-Thermosphere category
2018 Student Poster Award
NSF-GEM Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
1st place in Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet Section
2017 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
The fellowship is renewable for 3 years,
and provides stipend and travel money.
2014 Dean's Fellowship, Boston University
The fellowship is for the first year of PhD,
provides for the stipend and relocation.
2013 Student Poster Award
CEDAR Workshop, Boulder
Honarable mention, Ionosphere-Thermosphere Section
Service Roles
[Under Construction]
on the CEDAR Science Steering Committee (2017 - 2019)
Member of the American Geophysical Union (2008 - onwards)
Project Manager (2009-2014),
IIT Madras Student Satellite
Head of the Payload Team (2009-2014),
IIT Madras Student Satellite
Core Member of the National Service Scheme (NSS 2011)
Coordinator of Cancer Institute Program,
NSS 2010, IIT Madras
Coordinator of Short-Film Making event, Saarang 2010
