Petrus C Martens Professor
Right: The far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between NASA's DISCOVR spacecraft and Earth.
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Petrus C Martens ProfessorRight: The far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between NASA's DISCOVR spacecraft and Earth. |
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Dr. Petrus C Martens |
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Twenty years of experience in Data Mining,
Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, supported by NASA
and NSF grants. The objective is to protect
astronauts and space assets by providing timely warnings for
space weather events,
such as solar eruptions and solar energetic particle storms.
Co-founder and GSU PI of the
Virtual Solar Observatory
(2002). The VSO provides query access to
solar databases worldwide
Co-founder of GSU's interdisciplinary
Data Mining Lab (2014), which
focuses on space weather prediction
Invited to the White House to participate in the proclamation of the
National Space Weather Strategy (2015)
Co-founder and Co-Principal Investigator
of GSU's Innovative Imaging
Hub (2019)
In the summers of 2015 and 2016 I lived as a guest in a Buddhist monastery in India, teaching Physics & Astronomy to Tibetan monks, as part of the
Emory-Tibet Science Initiative.
TEDx talk on my family:
"Change through Immigration and Interracial Adoption"
Research Gate lists
330+ publications
with 5000+ citations.
I have published on: Space weather prediction
(flares, CMEs, SEPs, filaments), machine learning, databases, nonlinear phenomena, coronal
loops, stellar dynamos, stellar winds, and the faint young Sun paradox.
Teaching
I teach "Plasma Physics & MagnetoHydroDynamics (MHD)", an advanced graduate class, in preparation for research.
I further teach "Introduction to the Solar System", and "Stellar and Galactic Astronomy",
undergraduate classes for non-STEM
majors. I aim to fascinate my students with the wonders of the Universe, and make them understand the
scientific method -- the latter is quite relevant these days.
I have advised nine successful PhD
candidates, and am currently advising three more. Those that graduated are all over:
running their own company, chief scientist at the NASA affiliated ARISA Lab, NASA/SRAG, Lockheed-Martin, the South-west Research Institute,
while others are postdocs at Stanford, the Indian Space Research Organization, MSU,
and NSF funded at GSU.
