Roberto E. Navarro | UdeC Plasma Group

Roberto E. Navarro

Assistant Professor

Universidad de Concepción

Roberto is Assistant Professor in the Physics Department of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Universidad de Concepción. He joined the institution through the program of Insertion of Advanced Human Capital in the Academy (PAI) of CONICyT.

He specializes in Space Plasma Physics, in particular, he researches on the basic processes that govern the heating and energization of plasmas in the Universe as well as their importance in different turbulent regimes in space physics, astrophysical and laboratory plasmas.

Interests

Plasma Physics
Space Physics and Astrophysics
Solar wind and Magnetosphere
Particle acceleration and heating
Plasma numerical simulations
Electromagnetic fluctuations and turbulence in plasmas
Non-linear effects
particle distribution functions
Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics

Education

PhD of Sciences with mention in Physics, 2015
Universidad de Chile
Bachelor of Sciences with mention in Physics, 2009
Universidad de Chile

Others

Convener and Scientific Committee's member
XII Latin American Conference on Space Geophysics (COLAGE)
November 22-26, 2021
https://ccc.ciencias.uchile.cl/2021colage

Pablo S. Moya, Roberto E. Navarro (2021). Effects of the Background Turbulence on the Relaxation of Ion Temperature Anisotropy in Space Plasmas. Front. Phys. 9, 175.

Roberto E. Navarro, Víctor Muñoz, Juan A Valdivia, Pablo S Moya (2020). Feasibility of Ion-cyclotron Resonant Heating in the Solar Wind. Astrophys. J. 898, L9.

Rodrigo A. López, Roberto E. Navarro, Sebastian I. Pons, Jaime A. Araneda (2017). Landau damping in Kaniadakis and Tsallis distributed electron plasmas. Phys. Plasmas 24, 102119.

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Juan A. Valdivia, Benjamín A. Toledo, N. Gallo, V. Muñoz, J. Rogan, M. Stepanova, P. S. Moya, Roberto E. Navarro, Adolfo F. Viñas, Jaime A. Araneda, Rodrigo A. López, M. Díaz (2016). Magnetic fluctuations in anisotropic space plasmas: The effect of the plasma environment. Adv. Space Res. 58, 2126.

Rodrigo A Lopez, P. S. Moya, Roberto E. Navarro, Jaime A. Araneda, V. Muñoz, Adolfo F Vinas, J. Alejandro Valdivia (2016). Relativistic Cyclotron Instability in Anisotropic Plasmas. Astrophys. J. 832, 36.

Adolfo F. Viñas, P. S. Moya, Roberto E. Navarro, J. Alejandro Valdivia, Jaime A. Araneda, V. Muñoz (2015). Electromagnetic fluctuations of the whistler-cyclotron and firehose instabilities in a Maxwellian and Tsallis-kappa-like plasma. J. Geophys. Res. 120, 3307.

Rodrigo A. López, Roberto E. Navarro, P. S. Moya, Adolfo F. Viñas, Jaime A. Araneda, V. Muñoz, J. Alejandro Valdivia (2015). SPONTANEOUS ELECTROMAGNETIC FLUCTUATIONS in A RELATIVISTIC MAGNETIZED ELECTRON-POSITRON PLASMA. Astrophys. J. 810, 103.

Roberto E. Navarro, Víctor Muñoz, Jaime A. Araneda, Adolfo F. Viñas, Pablo S. Moya, Juan A. Valdivia (2015). Magnetic Alfvén-cyclotron fluctuations of anisotropic nonthermal plasmas. J. Geophys. Res. 120, 2382.

Roberto E. Navarro, P. S. Moya, V. Muñoz, Jaime A. Araneda, A. F. Viñas, J. A. Valdivia (2014). Solar Wind Thermally Induced Magnetic Fluctuations. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 245001.

Adolfo F. Viñas, P. S. Moya, Roberto E. Navarro, Jaime A. Araneda (2014). The role of higher-order modes on the electromagnetic whistler-cyclotron wave fluctuations of thermal and non-thermal plasmas. Phys. Plasmas 21, 012902.

Roberto E. Navarro, Jaime A. Araneda, V. Muñoz, P. S. Moya, Adolfo F. Viñas, Juan A. Valdivia (2014). Theory of electromagnetic fluctuations for magnetized multi-species plasmas. Phys. Plasmas 21, 092902.

P. S. Moya, Roberto E. Navarro, A. F. Viñas, V. Muñoz, J. A. Valdivia (2014). Weak turbulence cascading effects in the acceleration and heating of ions in the solar wind. Astrophys. J. 781, 76.

P. S. Moya, Roberto E. Navarro, V. Muñoz, J. Alejandro Valdivia (2013). Comment on "Sensitive Test for Ion-Cyclotron Resonant Heating in the Solar Wind". Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 029001.

Current projects

Kinetic instabilities and wave-particle interactions in non Maxwellian plasmas. Linear, quasi-linear, and non-linear analysis

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Disipación de Turbulencia en Plasmas Astrofísicos, Conexión entre Fluctuaciones Microscópicas y Macroscópicas

Turbulence Dissipation Between Macroscopic and Kinetic Scales in Astrophysical Plasmas

Electromagnetic Wave Scattering Induced by Plasma Fluctuations