Sergio Toledo Redondo

    Research Fellow

     

    Main Research Fields

    My main research area includes magnetic reconnection in space plasmas, with a focus on solar wind/magnetosphere coupling and particle energisation. In particular, I study the role of cold ions in magnetic reconnection and the new length scale that they introduce.
     
    I am also interested in atmospheric electricity, in particular in waves inside the Earth-ionosphere cavity such as Schumann resonances or atmospherics.

    Keywords

    • Magnetic reconnection
    • Cold ions
    • Solar wind/magnetosheath/magnetosphere coupling
    • Schumann resonances
    • Global lightning

    Ongoing collaborations

    • M. Andre, A. Vaivads, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden).
    • B. Lavraud, Y. Vernisse (Institute de la Recherche en Astronomie et Planetologie, Toulouse, France).
    • N. Aunai, A. Retino, O. LeContel, H. Breuillard (Laboratoire de Physique des plasmas, Paris, France).
    • A. Salinas, J. Porti, J. Fornieles (Universidad de Granada, Spain).

    Project/mission at ESA

    • Solar Orbiter
    • Cluster
    • THOR