CV

My full Curriculum Vitae can be downloaded here: pdf.

Education

• DPhil in Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, 2017
• M.Sc. in Physics, Technische Universität Berlin, 2013
• B.Sc. in Physics, Technische Universität Berlin, 2011

Research experience

• 2017- : Postdoctoral Research Scholar
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  • Duties included: Characterizing and understanding polar cyclones on Jupiter, Coordinating Earth-based observation efforts of Jupiter
  • Supervisor: Glenn S. Orton
• 2013-2017 : DPhil thesis
  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Dept. of Physics, University of Oxford
  • Duties included: Parameter study of diurnal effects on slowly-rotating planets, spectral fluxes of kinetic and potential energy using simple general circulation model (PUMA). Lorenz energy budget of Mars from reanalysis of observation data to compare w/ atmospheric energetics of Earth and parameter study runs.
  • Supervisor: Peter L. Read
• 2012-2013: 1 year M.Sc. thesis project
  • Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Technische Universitat Berlin
  • Duties included: Calculation of radiative and photochemical effects of stellar and galactic cosmic ray fluxes under M dwarf conditions and their effect on planetary transmission and emission spectra using a 1-dimensional radiative-convective model with coupled photochemistry.
  • Supervisor: Heike Rauer
• 2011-2013: Student Research Assistant
  • Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
  • Duties included: software development for integral field spectrometer data reduction tool p3d
  • Supervisor: Christer Sandin
• 2010: 3 month B.Sc. thesis project
  • Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Technische Universitat Berlin
  • Duties included: Calculation of dissociation rates of atmospheric trace gases due to secondary cosmic ray flux.
  • Supervisor: Heike Rauer

Publications

my Google Scholar profile

• Y. Wang, P.L. Read, F. Tabataba-Vakili, R.M.B. Young. “Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models: I. From cyclostrophic superrotation to geostrophic turbulence.” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. (2018) doi: 10.1002/qj.3350.
• S. Brown, M. Janssen, V. Adumitroaie, S. Atreya, S. Bolton, S Gulkis, A. Ingersoll, S. Levin, C. Li, L. Li, J. Lunine, S. Misra, G. Orton, P. Steffes, F. Tabataba-Vakili, I. Kolmasova, M. Imai, O. Santolik, W. Kurth, G. Hospodarsky, D. Gurnett, J. Connerney. “Prevalent lightning sferics at 600 megahertz near Jupiter’s poles” Nature 558, no. 7708 (2018): 87. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0156-5.
• D. Grassi, A. Adriani, M.L. Moriconi, A. Mura, F. Tabataba-Vakili, A. Ingersoll, G. Orton, C. Hansen, F. Altieri, G. Filacchione, G. Sindoni, B.M. Dinelli, F. Fabiano, S. J Bolton, J.E.P. Connerney, S. Levin, S.K. Atreya, J.I. Lunine, T. Momary, F. Tosi, A. Migliorini, G.Piccioni, R. Noschese, A. Cicchetti, C. Plainaki, A. Olivieri, D. Turrini, S. Stefani, R. Sordini, M. Amoroso. “First estimate of wind fields in the Jupiter polar regions from JIRAM-Juno images.” Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets. (2018). doi: 10.1029/2018JE005555.
• A.A. Simon, F. Tabataba-Vakili, R. Costentino, R.F. Beebe, M.H. Wong, G.S. Orton. “Historical and Contemporary Trends in the Size, Drift, and Color of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot” Astronomical Journal 155-4 (2018): 151. doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/aaae01.
• Adriani, A. Mura, G. Orton, C. Hansen, F. Altieri, M.L. Moriconi, J. Rogers, G. Eichstdt, T. Momary, A.P. Ingersoll, G. Filacchione, G. Sindoni, F. Tabataba-Vakili, B.M. Dinelli, F. Fabiano, S.J. Bolton, J.E.P Connerney, S.K. Atreya, J.I. Lunine, F. Tosi, A. Migliorini, D. Grassi, G. Piccioni, R. Noschese, A. Cicchetti, C. Plainaki, A. Olivieri, D. Turrini, S. Stefani, R. Sordini and M. Amoroso “Clusters of cyclones encircling Jupiter’s poles” Nature 555, no. 7695 (2018): 216. doi: 10.1038/nature25491. pdf.
• J.-M. Grießmeier, F. Tabataba-Vakili, A. Stadelmann, J. L. Grenfell, and D. Atri. “Galactic cosmic rays on extrasolar Earth-like planets-II. Atmospheric implications.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 587 (2016): A159. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425452. pdf.
• F. Tabataba-Vakili, J. L. Grenfell, J-M. Grießmeier, and H. Rauer. “Atmospheric effects of stellar cosmic rays on Earth-like exoplanets orbiting M-dwarfs.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 585 (2016): A96. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425602. pdf.
• J.-M. Grießmeier, F. Tabataba-Vakili, A. Stadelmann, J. L. Grenfell, and D. Atri. “Galactic cosmic rays on extrasolar Earth-like planets-I. Cosmic ray flux.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 581 (2015): A44. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425451. pdf.
• F. Tabataba-Vakili, P. L. Read, S. R. Lewis, L. Montabone, T. Ruan, Y. Wang, A. Valeanu, and R.M.B. Young. “A Lorenz/Boer energy budget for the atmosphere of Mars from a re-analysis of spacecraft observations.” Geophysical Research Letters 42 (2015): 8320-8327. doi: 10.1002/2015GL065659. pdf.
• C. Sandin , P. Weilbacher, F. Tabataba-Vakili, S. Kamann, and O. Streicher. “Automated and generalized integral-field spectroscopy data reduction using p3d.” SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+Instrumentation, pp. 84510F-84510F. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2012. doi: 10.1117/12.926092. pdf.

Presentations and Invited Talks

2019 Aug. JPL Planetary Science Seminar (Pasadena, CA) 2019 June Juno Science Talk at Lockheed Martin (Denver, Colorado) INVITED TALK 2019 Apr. JPL Postdoc Seminar (Pasadena, CA) 2019 Jan. VPL (Virtual Planet Laboratory) seminar talk (Seattle, WA) 2018 Dec. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2018 (Washington DC) 2018 Oct. Harvard CfA Stars an Planets Seminar (Cambridge, MA) INVITED TALK 2018 Oct. Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting 50 (Knoxville, TN) 2018 Sept. European Planetary Science Congress 2018 (Berlin, Germany) 2018 June Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 15th Annual Meeting (Honolulu, HI) INVITED TALK 2017 Dec. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2017 (New Orleans, LA) 2017 Oct. Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting 49 (Provo, UT) 2016 Oct. Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting 48 / European Planetary Science Congress 11 (Pasadena, CA) 2016 June TU Berlin ZAA Extrasolar Planet Seminar (Berlin, Germany) INVITED TALK 2016 June National Astronomy Meeting 2016 (Nottingham, UK) 2016 Apr. International Venus Conference 2016 (Oxford, UK) 2016 Feb. Idealised modeling of planetary atmospheres workshop (Exeter, UK) 2015 Sept. Comparative Climates of Terrestrial Planets II, NASA Ames Research Center (Mountain View, CA) 2015 Apr. EGU General Assembly Conference 2015 (Vienna, Austria) 2014 Sept. European Planetary Science Congress 2014 (Cascais, Portugal) 2014 Mar. German Physics Society annual conference 2014 (Berlin, Germany) 2013 Mar. 527.Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar: Plasma and Radiation Environment in Astrospheres and Implications for the Habitability of Extrasolar Planets (Bad Honnef, Germany)