Sami Solanki

Who is Sami Solanki?

Sami Khan Solanki is director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, director of the Sun-Heliosphere Department of MPS, a scientific member of the Max Planck Society, and a Chair of the International Max Planck Research School on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond at the Universities of Braunschweig and Göttingen.

Solanki is also an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Astronomy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics at the Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany. In Addition, he is a Distinguished Professor at the Kyung Hee University in Korea.

He is the editor-in-chief of the Living Reviews in Solar Physics, an exclusively web-based, peer-reviewed journal, publishing reviews of research in all areas of solar and heliospheric physics. Living Reviews in Solar Physics was recently rated with an impact factor of 12,500 taking the third place in the "Astronomy & Astrophysics" category.

Solanki's main topics of research are:

Solar and heliospheric physics, in particular solar magnetism and Sun-Earth relations