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Camilla Harris

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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

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Planetary Interiors and Geophysics

NASA Postdoctoral Fellow

Biography

Camilla Harris studies the space environment of Jupiter’s moon Europa through multi-fluid MHD simulations. Camilla is a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow working with Tom Nordheim to study the interaction between Europa’s ionosphere, atmosphere, and energetic particle environment.

Education

  • PhD, Dept. of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan (2022)
    • Certificate in Computational Discovery and Engineering
  • B.S. Physics, University of California Los Angeles (2015)
    • Minor in Mathematics

Professional Experience

  • Affiliate of the Europa Clipper Magnetometer Science Team (2018-Present)
  • Science Undergraduate Laboratory Intern, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2015-2016)
  • Science and Engineering Student Intern, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (2015)
  • Undergraduate Work Study with NASA’s THEMIS mission, University of California Los Angeles (2013-2015)

Community Service

  • American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (2021)
    • Session Co-chair for SM51C: Moon-Plasma Interactions Throughout the Solar System
  • Michigan Geophysical Union Student Research Symposium (2021)
    • Organizing Committee Chair
  • Peer Mentorship Program for the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan
    • Founding organizer (2017-2018)
  • PhD Student Handbook Development Committee for the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan
    • Chair (2017)
  • 12th APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at UCLA
    • Proposal and Planning Committee Member (2015)

Research Interests

  • Europa’s plasma interaction with Jupiter’s magnetosphere
  • Multi-fluid magnetohydrodynamic simulations
  • Planetary magnetospheres
  • Future exploration of the moons of the giant planets

Selected Awards

  • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship (2021)
  • Michigan Space Grant Fellowship (2019)
  • Rackham Merit Fellowship (2016)
  • California Space Grant Scholarship (2014, 2015)

Selected Publications

  • Harris, C. D. K., Jia, X., and Slavin, J. A. (2022). Multi-Fluid MHD Simulations of Europa's Plasma Interaction: Effects of Variation in Europa's Atmosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127. doi:10.1029/2022JA030569
  • Nordheim, T. A., Regoli, L. H., Harris, C. D. K., Paranicas, C., Hand, K. P., and Jia, X. (2022). Magnetospheric Ion Bombardment of Europa’s Surface. Planetary Science Journal, 3:5. doi:10.3847/PSJ/ac382a
  • Harris, C. D. K., Jia, X., Slavin, J. A., Toth, G., Huang, Z., and Rubin, M. (2021). Multi-fluid MHD simulations of Europa’s plasma interaction under different magnetospheric conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126. doi:10.1029/2020JA028888
  • Azari, A. R., …, Harris, C. D. K., et al. (2020) Integrating Machine Learning for Planetary Science: Perspectives for the Next Decade. Submitted to the NRC Planetary and Astrobiology Decadal Survey. Full text available via the decadal survey and arXiv:2007.15129.
  • Gabrielse, C., Angelopoulos, V., Harris, C., Artemyev, A., Kepko, L., and Runov, A. (2017). Extensive electron transport and energization via multiple, localized dipolarizing flux bundles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 122. doi:10.1002/2017JA023981
  • Gabrielse, C., Harris, C., Angelopoulos, V., Artemyev, A., and Runov, A. (2016). The role of localized inductive electric fields in electron injections around dipolarizing flux bundles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121. doi:10.1002/2016ja023061

Projects

Europa Clipper