Marianna Felici

Dr. Marianna Felici earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from La Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), specialising in Nuclear and Particle Physics, working on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. She obtained her Ph. D. in 2016 at the University College London (UK), specialising in Planetary and Space Physics, and working on Cassini observations of ionospheric plasma sources and plasma distribution in Saturn’s magnetosphere. Since 2017, she has been working at BU, performing mission support tasks for the Radio Occultation Science Experiment (ROSE) on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. Working mainly with ROSE data, she studies how the Martian ionosphere responds to various events, like dust storms. She recently joined the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, the Curiosity rover, as mission support scientist. She is a member of the CAPS science team of the Cassini mission at Saturn, of the science team for the MAVEN mission at Mars, and of the MSL mission at Mars.

Research Interests: Ionospheric structure; Giant planet magnetospheres; Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; Ion composition and distribution in planetary magnetospheres. Detectors Plasma/particle detectors in space physics.