Name

Professor

Research Areas

• Interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium.
• The role of energetic neutral atoms in shaping the heliosphere, and what their properties can tell us about the distant solar wind.
• Interstellar dust in the inner heliosphere and its properties as a function of the topology of the heliospheric interface.
• Magnetic reconnection as an energy release mechanism in the solar corona.

Education

• BCMS, 1996, University of Waikato, New Zealand
• MCMS, 1997, University of Waikato, New Zealand
• PhD, 2001, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Employment

• Foundation Studies Teacher, University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2001 - 2002.
• Junior Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor), University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2003.
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of California Riverside, 2003 - 2004.
• Assistant Professional Researcher, University of California Riverside, 2003 - 2008
• Assistant Professor, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2008 - present.

External Funding

• Principal Investigator on NASA Grant NNG06GD48G, "Collisional Processes in the Global Heliosphere", total sum of $405,387 over 3 years, Feb 2006 to Feb 2009. Co-Investigators: Nikolai Pogorelov, Hans Mueller and Gary Zank.

Representative Presentations and Papers

• Heerikhuisen, J., Craig, I.J.D. And Watson, P.G., "Time-dependent magnetic reconnection in two-dimensional periodic geometry", Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 93, p115, 2000.
• Heerikhuisen, J., Litvinenko, Y.E. and Craig, I.J.D., "Proton acceleration in analytic reconnecting current sheets", Astrophys. J., 566, p512, 2002.
• Craig, I.J.D., Heerikhuisen, J. and Watson, P.G., "Hall current effects in dynamic magnetic reconnection solutions", Phys. Plasmas, 10, p3120, 2003.
• Heerikhuisen, J. and Craig, I.J.D., "Magnetic reconnection in three dimensions – spine, fan and separator solutions", Solar Phys., 222, p95, 2004.
• Heerikhuisen, J., Florinski, V. and Zank, G.P., "Interaction between the Solar Wind and Interstellar Gas: a comparison between Monte-Carlo and Fluid approaches", J. Geophys. Res., 111, p6110, 2006.
• Heerikhuisen, J., Pogorelov, N.V., Zank, G.P., and Florinski, V., "The effects of global heliospheric asymmetries on energetic neutral atom sky maps", Astrophys. J., 655, L53, 2007.
• Pogorelov, N.V., Heerikhuisen, J., and Zank, G.P., "Probing Heliospheric Asymmetries with an MHD-Kinetic Model", Astrophys. J., 675, L41--44, 2008.
• Heerikhuisen, J., Pogorelov, N.V., Florinski, V., Zank, G.P., and le Roux, J. A., "The effects of a kappa-distribution in the heliosheath on the global heliosphere and ENA flux at 1 AU", Astrophys. J., 682, p679, 2008.

Books

• "Physics of the Inner Heliosheath: Voyager Observations, Theory, and Future Prospects", Heerikhuisen, J., Florinski, V., Zank, G.P. and Pogorelov, N.V. (editors), Proceedings of the 5th IGPP conference "Physics of the inner heliosheath", AIP, 858, 2006.