Olga Panasenco

Project Manager and Principal Investigator

Advanced Heliophysics, Inc., California

Education

• Ph.D., Physics and Chemistry of Plasma, Astrophysics/ Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1999
• M.Sc., Physics, Physics Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Russia, 1993

Professional Employment

• 2007 – present, Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Heliophysics Inc.
• 2002 – 2006, Research Scientist, Space Physics Lab, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Russia
• 1999 – 2002, Postdoctoral position, Space Physics Lab, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Russia

Recent Experience

• 2013 – present, President and CEO at Advanced Heliophysics Inc.
• 2024 – 2025, Co-I/NASA: Solar Wind Structures Identified Via Shannon Information Entropy (with UCLA PI)
• 2022 – 2025, Co-I/NSF: Structures in the Solar Corona and Solar Wind and Their Interaction With Turbulence
• 2019 – 2021, Project Manager and Co-I, UCLA NASA HERMES DRIVE Science Center Program, Phase I
• 2019 – 2022, PI/NASA: Fine-tuning solar wind origins: Alfvénic turbulence, solar wind speed, and identifying source regions on the sun
• 2019 – 2021, Co-I/NASA: Global Evolution and Local Dynamics of the Kinetic Solar Wind (with UCLA PI)
• 2018 – 2019, Co-I/NSF: Solar Filaments and Deflection of CMEs
• 2014 – 2017, PI/NASA: Solar Wind from Pseudostreamers
• 2012 – 2015, Co-I/NASA: Sympathetic Eruptions and Pseudostreamers

Research Interests

• Observations of the Sun and the Solar Corona through direct ground-base telescopic observations & Space telescope remote sensing observations.
• Solar Phenomena in Stars and Stellar Systems.
• Cool Stars and the Sun.
• Data analysis of in-situ plasma measurements.
• Modeling and observations of magnetic structures in the solar corona.
• Modeling the structure and acceleration of the solar wind.
• Energetic particle events from the Sun and their origin.
• Coronal holes and active region evolution.
• Formation and evolution of solar filaments and prominences.
• Formation, eruption and propagation of solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), Space Weather predictions.

Awards

• 2023 - A recipient of the NASA Group Achievement Award as a member of the Parker Solar Probe team.

Synergistic activity

• 2024 – present: Editor, Springer/Solar Physics journal
• 2016 – present: a member of the Theory Science Team for the Parker Solar Probe Mission (NASA)
• 2014 – 2025: 13 consecutive years Convener of the AGU (American Geophysical Union) Session “Fundamental Physics of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere”
• 2023, September: Convener/Organizer of a workshop on Magnetic Switchbacks in the Young Solar Wind, which was sponsored by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland
• Conference organizations: PROM meetings 2007-2011, First Solar Probe Plus meeting in Pasadena 2014, First joint Solar Probe Plus-Solar Orbiter conference 2015, Artimino, Florence, Italy
• A member of the International ISSI Team (2017) “Solving the prominence paradox” (PI Nicolas Labrosse)
• PROBA-2/SWAP Guest Investigator at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (2016) (“Pseudostreamers and their Immediate Environment: Observations and Modeling”)
• Co-I of a Category II proposal to NASA Heliophysics Explorer mission SAFARI, Solar Activity Far Side Investigation (Caltech/JPL)
• 2009 – Present: Regular reviewer for NASA and for a range of scientific manuscripts including Solar Physics, JGR, ApJ, and ApJL
• Dr. Panasenco has given lectures in various graduate courses in Solar Physics and Heliophysics in 2020-2021 (UCLA-EPSS7 Perils of Space Course; “Exploring the Solar Atmosphere” in the University of Bochum)
• President and CEO, Board Member of Advanced Heliophysics Inc.

Selected Publications

• D'Amicis, R., Velli, M., Panasenco, O., et al., “On Alfvénic turbulence of solar wind streams observed by Solar Orbiter during March 2022 perihelion and their source regions”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, A243 (2025)
• Huang, Z. + 11 colleagues, “Solar Wind Structures from the Gaussianity of Magnetic Magnitude”, The Astrophysical Journal, 973 (2024)
• Bale, S. D. + 15 colleagues, “Interchange reconnection as the source of the fast solar wind within coronal holes”, Nature 618, 252–256 (2023)
• Raouafi, N. E. + 57 colleagues, “Parker Solar Probe: Four Years of Discoveries at Solar Cycle Minimum”, Space Science Reviews, 219 (2023)
• Shi, C. + 20 colleagues. “Patches of magnetic switchbacks and their origins” (2022)
• Bale, S. D. + 19 colleagues. “A Solar Source of Alfvénic Magnetic Field Switchbacks: In Situ Remnants of Magnetic Funnels on Supergranulation Scales”, ApJ, 923 (2021)
• Telloni, D. + 43 colleagues. “Evolution of Solar Wind Turbulence from 0.1 to 1 au during the First Parker Solar Probe-Solar Orbiter Radial Alignment”, ApJ 912 (2021)
• Panasenco, O. +20 colleagues. “Exploring Solar Wind Origins and Connecting Plasma Flows from the Parker Solar Probe to 1 au: Nonspherical Source Surface and Alfvénic Fluctuations”, ApJS, 246, 2 (2020)
• Velli, M. + 30 colleagues. “Understanding the origins of the heliosphere: integrating observations and measurements from Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and other space- and ground-based observatories”, Astronomy and Astrophysics 642 (2020)
• Panasenco, O., Velli, M., and Panasenco, A., “Large-scale Magnetic Funnels in the Solar Corona”ApJ, 873, 25 (2019)
• Wang, Y.-M., and Panasenco, O., “Observations of Solar Wind from Earth-directed Coronal Pseudostreamers”, ApJ, 872, 139 (2019)
• Titov, V.S., Mikic, Z., Török, T., Linker, J.A., and Panasenco, O. “2010 August 1–2 Sympathetic Eruptions. II. Magnetic Topology of the MHD Background Field”, ApJ, 845, 141 (2017)
• Panasenco, O., Martin, S., Velli, M., and A. Vourlidas, “Origins of Rolling, Twisting and Non-Radial Propagation of Eruptive Solar Events”, Solar Phys. 287, 391 (2014)
• Panasenco, O., Martin, S., and M. Velli, “Apparent Solar Tornado – Like Prominences”, Solar Phys. 289, 603 (2014)
• Panasenco, O., and Velli, M., “Coronal pseudostreamers: Source of fast or slow solar wind?”, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1539, 50 (2013)
• Török T. Panasenco, O., Titov, V. S., et al., “A Model for Magnetically Coupled Sympathetic Eruptions”, The Astrophysical Journal 739, (2011)