Michael Zellinger

PS Planetary and Solar System Sciences

The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Michael Zellinger for the poster/PICO entitled:

The Influence of Gravity on the Evolution of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability around Venus (Zellinger, M.; Möstl, U. V.; Erkaev, N. V.; Biernat, H. K.)

Click here to download the poster/PICO file.

Michael Zellinger has recently finished his Master at the University of Graz, where he worked on numerical simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability around Venus, which has been discussed as a possible major loss process for particles of the Venusian ionosphere.

He is now PhD student at the University of Graz and Research Assistant at the Space Research Institute in Graz, where he works on magnetohyrdodynamic simulations of plasmaphysical instabilities. Currently, he investigates the flapping motion of the Earth’s magnetotail.