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Solar physicist • Data-driven heliophysics
Bibhuti Kumar Jha
I study how solar magnetic fields evolve across cycles and how that evolution shapes space weather, prediction, and the way we build long-baseline solar datasets.
38
Refereed publications
6
Active research themes
SwRI
Current research base
My Journey: From a Village in Bihar to Solar Physics
I was born in the village of Sarisab-Pahi in the Madhubani district of Bihar, where I completed my early education before moving to Delhi to pursue Physics (Honors) at Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi. I later earned my master’s degree from the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi.
In 2017, I joined the Indian Institute of Astrophysics as a Ph.D. student and was awarded the CSIR-JRF fellowship. My doctoral research focused on solar astrophysics under the guidance of Prof. Dipankar Banerjee. I completed my Ph.D. in 2022 (IIA & Pondicherry University), during which I received international research support, including participation in NASA’s Heliophysics Summer School in Boulder.
Currently, I am a Research Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, CO, USA. My research centers on understanding the solar cycle and its impact on Earth from a space-weather perspective, with the goal of improving our ability to model and predict solar-driven disturbances that affect modern technological systems.
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Currently Working On
Solar cycle • SFT • Synoptic maps
Tooling
Python • HDF5 • Visualization
Research themes
A few strong entry points into the questions I work on
Solar cycle variability
Long-baseline evolution, reversals, and cycle-to-cycle structure.
Open theme →SFT / AFT modeling
Transport-based magnetic evolution with data-assimilation workflows.
Open theme →ML-ready solar data
Calibration, detection, and forecasting products designed for reuse.
Open theme →Site roadmap
The site is expanding in layers, with room for dedicated pages as the archive grows.
Planned next
Project pages and software archive
Dedicated pages for datasets, tools, and reproducible workflows will plug into the current navigation without changing the visual language.
Planned later
Photography and field notes
Future pages can sit alongside the research archive while still feeling like part of one personal site.
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