Dr Guram Kervalishvili
Guram Kervalishvili is a senior scientist at GFZ since 2011. He received his Doctorate in Physics and Mathematics from the Division of Plasma Physics, Department of Physics, Tbilisi State University (TSU), Georgia, in 2003, with a focus on nonlinear phenomena in the gas-discharge nonneutral electron plasmas. The main topics of his research are space weather and climate, physics of the ionosphere, magnetosphere and thermosphere. He works with CHAMP, GOCE, GRACE, GRACE-FO, Swarm, and other satellite data. He is managing several projects related to the Swarm satellite mission and ESA’s Space Safety Programme including the Kp (ap, Ap) and Hpo (Hp60, ap60, hp30, ap30) indices. From 2000 to 2011, he worked at the Division of Plasma Physics at the Department of Physics (Georgia), Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Germany), Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (Germany), and BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Germany). He is a co-author of more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals.