Ali Sulaiman

Assistant Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy

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Affiliations

Ali Sulaiman

Assistant Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy

Research

Planetary magnetospheres, auroras, and ionospheres
Giant planet coupling with their moons and rings
Solar wind interaction with planetary magnetospheres
Fundamental space plasma physics: MHD and plasma waves, wave-particle interaction (particle acceleration/heating/scattering), collisionless shock waves (particularly very high Mach number processes)

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Biography

Education

Ph.D., Imperial College London, 2016

M.Eng. (First Class Honours), Imperial College London, 2012

Professional Background

Assistant Research Scientist, University of Iowa, 2020-2022

Postdoc, University of Iowa, 2016-2020

Scientific & Professional Societies

Member, American Geophysical Union

Recent News

Article about Prof. Sulaiman's research

Publications & Awards

Honors and Awards

NASA Planetary Science Early Career Award, 2024
Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, 2022
University of Iowa Postdoctoral Scholar Excellence Award, 2019
NASA Group Achievement Award, 2018
International Union of Radio Science Young Scientist Award, 2017
Springer Thesis Prize, 2016

Selected Publications

2023

Lysak, R.L., Sulaiman, A.H., Bagenal, F., Crary, F. (2023). A Numerical Model for the Interaction of Io‐Generated Alfvén Waves With Jupiter's Magnetosphere and Ionosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 128 (4), [e2022JA031180].
DOI: 10.1029/2022ja031180

Li, W., Ma, Q., Shen, X.C., Zhang, X.J., Mauk, B.H., Clark, G., Allegrini, F., Kurth, W.S., Hospodarsky, G.B., Sulaiman, A., Nordheim, T.A., Bolton, S.J. (2023). Driver of Energetic Electron Precipitation in the Vicinity of Ganymede. Geophysical Research Letters. 50 (6), [e2022GL101555].
DOI: 10.1029/2022GL101555 DOI: 10.1029/2022GL101555

Clark, G., Szalay, J.R., Sulaiman, A.H., Saur, J., Kollmann, P., Mauk, B.H., Paranicas, C., Hue, V., Greathouse, T., Allegrini, F., Glocer, A., Garcia-Sage, K., Bolton, S. (2023). Energetic proton acceleration by EMIC waves in Io’s footprint tail. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. [1016345].
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2023.1016345

Rabia, J., Hue, V., Szalay, J., andre, Nénon, Q., Blanc, M., Allegrini, F., bolton, connerney, Ebert, R., Gladstone, R., Greathouse, T.K., Louarn, P., Mura, A., Penou, E., Sulaiman, A. (2023). Evidence for Non‐Monotonic and Broadband Electron Distributions in the Europa Footprint Tail Revealed by Juno In Situ Measurements. Geophysical Research Letters. 50 (12), [e2023GL103131].
DOI: 10.1029/2023gl103131 Final published version

Mauk, B., Szalay, J., Allegrini, F., Bagenal, F., Bolton, S.J., Clark, G., connerney, Gladstone, R., Haggerty, D., Kollmann, P., Kurth, W., Paranicas, C., Sulaiman, A. (2023). How Bi‐Modal Are Jupiter's Main Aurora Zones?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 128 (4), [e2022JA031237].
DOI: 10.1029/2022ja031237 Final published version

Sulaiman, A.H., Szalay, J.R., Clark, G., Allegrini, F., Bagenal, F., Brennan, M.J., Connerney, J.E.P., Hue, V., Kurth, W.S., Lysak, R.L., Nichols, J.D., Saur, J., Bolton, S.J. (2023). Poynting Fluxes, Field-Aligned Current Densities, and the Efficiency of the Io-Jupiter Electrodynamic Interaction. Geophysical Research Letters. 50 (10), [e2023GL103456].
DOI: 10.1029/2023gl103456DOI: 10.1029/2023GL103456

Hue, V., Gladstone, R., Louis, C., Greathouse, T., Bonfond, B., Szalay, J., Moirano, A., Giles, R., Kammer, J., Imai, M., Mura, A., Versteeg, M., Clark, G., Gérard, J.C., Grodent, D., Rabia, J., Sulaiman, A., bolton, connerney (2023). The Io, Europa and Ganymede auroral footprints at Jupiter in the ultraviolet: Positions and equatorial lead angles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 128 (5), [e2023JA031363].
DOI: 10.1029/2023ja031363

2022

Hue, V., Szalay, J.R., Greathouse, T.K., Bonfond, B., Kotsiaros, S., Louis, C.K., Sulaiman, A.H., Clark, G., Allegrini, F., Gladstone, G.R., Paranicas, C., Versteeg, M.H., Mura, A., Moirano, A., Gershman, D.J., Bolton, S.J., Connerney, J.E.P., Davis, M.W., Ebert, R.W., Gérard, J.C., Giles, R.S., Grodent, D.C., Imai, M., Kammer, J.A., Kurth, W.S., Lamy, L., Mauk, B.H. (2022). A Comprehensive Set of Juno In Situ and Remote Sensing Observations of the Ganymede Auroral Footprint. Geophysical Research Letters. 49 (7), [e2021GL096994].
DOI: 10.1029/2021GL096994

Saur, J., Duling, S., Wennmacher, A., Willmes, C., Roth, L., Strobel, D.F., Allegrini, F., Bagenal, F., Bolton, S.J., Bonfond, B., Clark, G., Gladstone, R., Greathouse, T.K., Grodent, D.C., Hansen, C.J., Kurth, W.S., Orton, G.S., Retherford, K.D., Rymer, A.M., Sulaiman, A.H. (2022). Alternating North-South Brightness Ratio of Ganymede's Auroral Ovals: Hubble Space Telescope Observations Around the Juno PJ34 Flyby. Geophysical Research Letters. 49 (23), [e2022GL098600].
DOI: 10.1029/2022GL098600

Szalay, J.R., Clark, G., Livadiotis, G., McComas, D.J., Mitchell, D.G., Rankin, J.S., Sulaiman, A.H., Allegrini, F., Bagenal, F., Ebert, R.W., Gladstone, G.R., Kurth, W.S., Mauk, B.H., Valek, P.W., Wilson, R.J., Bolton, S.J. (2022). Closed Fluxtubes and Dispersive Proton Conics at Jupiter's Polar Cap. Geophysical Research Letters. 49 (9), [e2022GL098741].
DOI: 10.1029/2022GL098741

Sulaiman, A. (2022, September). Closed Fluxtubes and Proton Conics in Jupiter’s Polar Cap.

Sulaiman, A.H., Achilleos, N., Bertucci, C., Coates, A., Dougherty, M., Hadid, L., Holmberg, M., Hsu, H.W., Kimura, T., Kurth, W., Gall, A.L., McKevitt, J., Morooka, M., Murakami, G., Regoli, L., Roussos, E., Saur, J., Shebanits, O., Solomonidou, A., Wahlund, J.E., Waite, J.H. (2022). Enceladus and Titan: emerging worlds of the Solar System. Experimental Astronomy. 54 (2-3), [849-876].
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-021-09810-z

Clark, G., Kollmann, P., Mauk, B.H., Paranicas, C., Haggerty, D., Rymer, A., Smith, H.T., Saur, J., Allegrini, F., Duling, S., Ebert, R.W., Kurth, W.S., Gladstone, R., Greathouse, T.K., Li, W., Bagenal, F., Connerney, J.E.P., Bolton, S., Szalay, J.R., Sulaiman, A.H., Hansen, C.J., Turner, D.L. (2022). Energetic Charged Particle Observations During Juno's Close Flyby of Ganymede. Geophysical Research Letters. 49 (23), [e2022GL098572].
DOI: 10.1029/2022GL098572

Ebert, R.W., Fuselier, S.A., Allegrini, F., Bagenal, F., Bolton, S.J., Clark, G., Connerney, J.E.P., DiBraccio, G.A., Kurth, W.S., Levin, S., McComas, D.J., Montgomery, J., Romanelli, N., Sulaiman, A.H., Szalay, J.R., Valek, P., Wilson, R.J. (2022). Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection at Ganymede's Upstream Magnetopause During the PJ34 Juno Flyby. Geophysical Research Letters. 49 (23), [e2022GL099775].
DOI: 10.1029/2022GL099775

Sulaiman, A.H. (2022, May). Ganymede MHD Model: Magnetospheric Context for Juno's PJ34 Flyby.

Duling, S., Saur, J., Clark, G., Allegrini, F., Greathouse, T., Gladstone, R., Kurth, W., Connerney, J.E.P., Bagenal, F., Sulaiman, A.H. (2022). Ganymede MHD Model: Magnetospheric Context for Juno's PJ34 Flyby. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2022GL101688

Kurth, W.S., Sulaiman, A.H., Hospodarsky, G.B., Mauk, J.D.M.B.H., Clark, G., Allegrini, F., Valek, P., Connerney, J.E.P., Waite, J.H., Bolton, S.J., Imai, M., Santolik, O., Li, W., Duling, S., Saur, J., Louis, C. (2022). Juno Plasma Wave Observations at Ganymede. Geophysical Research Letters. 49 (23), [e2022GL098591].
DOI: 10.1029/2022gl098591

Hansen, C.J., Bolton, S., Sulaiman, A.H., Duling, S., Bagenal, F., Brennan, M., Connerney, J., Clark, G., Lunine, J., Levin, S., Kurth, W., Mura, A., Paranicas, C., Tosi, F., Withers, P. (2022). Juno's Close Encounter With Ganymede—An Overview. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2022GL099285

Sulaiman, A.H., Mauk, B.H., Szalay, J.R., Allegrini, F., Clark, G., Gladstone, G.R., Kotsiaros, S., Kurth, W.S., Bagenal, F., Bonfond, B., Connerney, J.E.P., Ebert, R.W., Elliott, S.S., Gershman, D.J., Hospodarsky, G.B., Hue, V., Lysak, R.L., Masters, A., Santolík, O., Saur, J., Bolton, S.J. (2022). Jupiter's Low‐Altitude Auroral Zones: Fields, Particles, Plasma Waves, and Density Depletions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 127 (8), [e2022JA030334].
DOI: 10.1029/2022JA030334

Sulaiman, A. (2022). Loss of Energetic Ions Comprising the Ring Current Populations of Jupiter's Middle and Inner Magnetosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 127 (5), [e2022JA030293].
DOI: 10.1029/2022ja030293

Bohdan, A., Pohl, M., Niemiec, J., Morris, P.J., Matsumoto, Y., Amano, T., Hoshino, M., Sulaiman, A. (2022). Magnetic field amplification at planetary and astrophysical high Mach-number shocks. Proceedings of Science. [443].

Masters, A., Sergis, N., Sulaiman, A.H., Palmaerts, B., Hunt, G.J. (2022). Near‐Magnetic‐Field‐Aligned Energetic Electrons Above Saturn's Dark Polar Regions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
DOI: 10.1029/2022JA030924

Janser, S., Saur, J., Clark, G., Sulaiman, A.H., Szalay, J.R. (2022). Properties of Turbulent Alfvénic Fluctuations and Wave‐Particle Interaction Associated With Io's Footprint Tail. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
DOI: 10.1029/2022JA030675

Roussos, E., Allanson, O., André, N., Bertucci, B., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Clark, G., Dialynas, K., Dandouras, I., Desai, R.T., Futaana, Y., Gkioulidou, M., Jones, G.H., Kollmann, P., Kotova, A., Kronberg, E.A., Krupp, N., Murakami, G., Nénon, Q., Nordheim, T., Palmaerts, B., Plainaki, C., Rae, J., Santos-Costa, D., Sarris, T., Shprits, Y., Sulaiman, A., Woodfield, E., Wu, X., Yao, Z. (2022). The in-situ exploration of Jupiter’s radiation belts. Experimental Astronomy. 54 (2-3), [745-789].
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-021-09801-0

2021

Menietti, J.D., Averkamp, T.F., Kurth, W.S., Imai, M., Faden, J.B., Hospodarsky, G.B., Santolik, O., Clark, G., Allegrini, F., Elliott, S.S., Sulaiman, A.H., Bolton, S.J. (2021). Analysis of Whistler-Mode and Z-Mode Emission in the Juno Primary Mission. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 126 (11), [e2021JA029885].
DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029885 DOI: 10.1029/2021ja029885

Allegrini, F., Kurth, W.S., Elliott, S.S., Saur, J., Livadiotis, G., Nicolaou, G., Bagenal, F., Bolton, S., Clark, G., Connerney, J.E.P., Ebert, R.W., Gladstone, G.R., Louarn, P., Mauk, B.H., McComas, D.J., Sulaiman, A.H., Szalay, J.R., Valek, P.W., Wilson, R.J. (2021). Electron Partial Density and Temperature Over Jupiter's Main Auroral Emission Using Juno Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 126 (9), [e2021JA029426].
DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029426 DOI: 10.1029/2021ja029426

Sulaiman, A.H., Elliott, S.S., Kurth, W.S., Faden, J.B., Hospodarsky, G.B., Menietti, J.D. (2021). Inferring Jovian Electron Densities Using Plasma Wave Spectra Obtained by the Juno/Waves Instrument. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 126 (8), [e2021JA029263].
DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029263

Bohdan, A., Pohl, M., Niemiec, J., Morris, P.J., Matsumoto, Y., Amano, T., Hoshino, M., Sulaiman, A. (2021). Magnetic Field Amplification by the Weibel Instability at Planetary and Astrophysical Shocks with High Mach Number. Physical review letters.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.095101

Moirano, A., Mura, A., Adriani, A., Dols, V., Bonfond, B., Waite, J.H., Hue, V., Szalay, J.R., Sulaiman, A.H., Dinelli, B.M., Tosi, F., Altieri, F., Cicchetti, A., Filacchione, G., Grassi, D., Migliorini, A., Moriconi, M.L., Noschese, R., Piccioni, G., Sordini, R., Turrini, D., Plainaki, C., Sindoni, G., Massetti, S., Lysak, R.L., Ivanovski, S.L., Bolton, S.J. (2021). Morphology of the Auroral Tail of Io, Europa, and Ganymede From JIRAM L-Band Imager. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 126 (9), [e2021JA029450].
DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029450DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029450

Sulaiman, A., Elliott, S. (2021, March). Plasma waves in the inner Jovian magnetosphere at low to mid-latitudes.

Sulaiman, A. (2021). Revealing the source of Jupiter’s x-ray auroral flares. Science Advances.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf0851

Sulaiman, A. (2021). Simultaneous UV Images and High‐Latitude Particle and Field Measurements During an Auroral Dawn Storm at Jupiter. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
DOI: 10.1029/2021ja029679

Elliott, S.S., Sulaiman, A.H., Kurth, W.S., Faden, J., Allegrini, F., Valek, P., Connerney, J.E.P., Ebert, R.W., Szalay, J.R., Bagenal, F., Bolton, S.J. (2021). The High-Latitude Extension of Jupiter's Io Torus: Electron Densities Measured by Juno Waves. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 126 (8), [e2021JA029195].
DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029195

Lysak, R.L., Song, Y., Elliott, S., Kurth, W., Sulaiman, A.H., Gershman, D. (2021). The Jovian Ionospheric Alfvén Resonator and Auroral Particle Acceleration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 126 (12), [e2021JA029886].
DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029886

2020

Sulaiman, A.H. (2020). Alfvénic Acceleration Sustains Ganymede's Footprint Tail Aurora. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2019gl086527

Sulaiman, A.H. (2020). A New Framework to Explain Changes in Io's Footprint Tail Electron Fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2020gl089267

Sulaiman, A., Elliott, S. (2020, October). Connecting Jupiter's Auroral Pulsations with In-situ Measurements by Juno.

Clark, G., Mauk, B.H., Kollmann, P., Szalay, J.R., Sulaiman, A.H., Gershman, D.J., Saur, J., Janser, S., Garcia‐Sage, K., Greathouse, T., Paranicas, C., Allegrini, F., Bagenal, F., Bolton, S.J., Connerney, J.E.P., Ebert, R.W., Hospodarsky, G., Haggerty, D., Hue, V., Imai, M., Kotsiaros, S., McComas, D.J., Rymer, A., Westlake, J. (2020). Energetic Proton Acceleration Associated With Io's Footprint Tail. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2020GL090839

Sulaiman, A.H. (2020). First Report of Electron Measurements During a Europa Footprint Tail Crossing by Juno. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2020gl089732

Sulaiman, A.H. (2020). Proton Acceleration by Io's Alfvénic Interaction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
DOI: 10.1029/2019ja027314

Elliott, S.S., Gurnett, D.A., Yoon, P.H., Kurth, W.S., Mauk, B.H., Ebert, R.W., Clark, G., Valek, P., Allegrini, F., Bolton, S.J., Menietti, J.D., Louarn, P., Sulaiman, A.H. (2020). The Generation of Upward-Propagating Whistler Mode Waves by Electron Beams in the Jovian Polar Regions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 125 (6), [e2020JA027868].
DOI: 10.1029/2020JA027868 DOI: 10.1029/2020ja027868

Sulaiman, A. (2020, October). Wave-particle interaction in the Io flux tube.

Sulaiman, A.H., Hospodarsky, G.B., Elliott, S.S., Kurth, W.S., Gurnett, D.A., Imai, M., Allegrini, F., Bonfond, B., Clark, G., Connerney, J.E.P., Ebert, R.W., Gershman, D.J., Hue, V., Janser, S., Kotsiaros, S., Paranicas, C., Santolík, O., Saur, J., Szalay, J.R., Bolton, S.J. (2020). Wave-Particle Interactions Associated With Io's Auroral Footprint: Evidence of Alfvén, Ion Cyclotron, and Whistler Modes. Geophysical Research Letters. 47 (22), [e2020GL088432].
DOI: 10.1029/2020GL088432

2019

Sulaiman, A.H., Farrell, W.M., Kurth, W.S., Gurnett, D.A., Hospodarsky, G.B., Menietti, J.D., Píša, D., Hunt, G.J., Agiwal, O., Dougherty, M.K. (2019). A Persistent, Large‐Scale, and Ordered Electrodynamic Connection Between Saturn and Its Main Rings. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL083541

Persoon, A.M., Kurth, W.S., Gurnett, D.A., Groene, J.B., Sulaiman, A.H., Wahlund, J.E., Morooka, M.W., Hadid, L.Z., Nagy, A.F., J. H. Waite, J., Cravens, T.E. (2019). Electron Density Distributions in Saturn's Ionosphere. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078020

Sulaiman, A.H. (2019, August). Enceladus and Titan: Emerging Worlds of the Solar System (ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper).

Sulaiman, A.H. (2019). Io's Effect on Energetic Charged Particles as Seen in Juno Data. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2019gl085393

Sulaiman, A.H. (2019, August). The in-situ exploration of Jupiter's radiation belts (A White Paper submitted in response to ESA's Voyage 2050 Call).

Menietti, J.D., Yoon, P.H., Pisa, D., Averkamp, T.F., Sulaiman, A.H., Kurth, W.S., Santolík, O., Arridge, C.S. (2019). The Role of Intense Upper Hybrid Resonance Emissions in the Generation of Saturn Narrowband Emission. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
DOI: 10.1029/2019JA026855

Vaverka, J., Nouzak, L., Sternovsky, Z., Zaslavsky, A., Pavlu, J., Mann, I., Hsu, H.W., Averkamp, T.F., Sulaiman, A.H., Pisa, D., Hospodarsky, G.B., Kurth, W.S., Horanyi, M. (2019). Understanding Cassini RPWS Antenna Signals Triggered by Dust Impacts. Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL084150