{"id":11740,"date":"2025-09-18T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=11740"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:30:37","slug":"brian-walsh","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/profile\/brian-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Space plasma dynamics; X-ray imaging and sensing technologies; Solar wind-planetary coupling; Small spacecraft technology; Space weather<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nProfessor Walsh\u2019s research interests include space and plasma dynamics in planetary space environments. Of particular interest are the plasma interactions in the near-Earth environment and the coupling of energy from the sun into Earth\u2019s magnetic system. As an experimentalist, Dr. Walsh is involved in a number of ongoing NASA spacecraft missions.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Walsh is currently involved in the development of soft x-ray technology to image solar wind charge-exchange around planetary bodies.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Additional Affiliations:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nBU College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7810,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11791,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11740\/revisions\/11791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}