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Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Full Name Savvas Raptis
Current Role Senior Professional Staff, Space Exploration Sector, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Location Maryland, USA
Research Areas heliophysics, applied ML/AI, space plasma physics and space weather

Research Appointments

  • Mar 2026 - Present
    Senior Professional Staff
    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA
  • Jun 2023 - Feb 2026
    Associate Professional Staff II
    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA
  • Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
    Visiting Researcher
    European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Leiden, Netherlands
  • Nov 2022 - May 2023
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
    PhD Researcher
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Education

Leadership and Supervision

  • 2026-Present: Deputy Lead of the MMS Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) instrument team.
  • 2025-Present: IMAP Science Team member and NASA CGS Magnetosphere Data Analysis Working Group lead.
  • 2025-2029: NSF GEM Focus Group Leader for Multiscale Dayside Transients and their effect on Earth's magnetosphere.
  • 2024-Present: Chair, AGU SPA Early Career Leadership Advisory Committee (EC-LAC).
  • 2025-Present: Plasma Observatory science consortium contributor and science multi-point working-group contributor.
  • 2023-Present: SMILE Science Working Team and Modeling Working Group member; MMS Science Working Team and EPD team member.
  • 2026-2028: Early-career researcher, ISSI International Team 677, Impact of Dayside Transients: A Comparative Terrestrial-Planet Perspective.
  • Lead organizer for LMAG25 and primary convener/chair roles across AGU collisionless-shocks sessions.
  • Mentoring and co-supervision activities through AGU, GEM, EGU, JHU/APL internships, and graduate-student co-supervision.

Service and Reviewing

  • Science/instrument/working-team roles: IMAP, MMS (EPD/EDP), SMILE, Plasma Observatory, and Center for Geospace Storms (CGS).
  • Proposal reviewer for NASA programs (HSR, HGIO, LWS, SCUBED, SMDSS).
  • Editorial board member: Discover Space (Springer Nature).
  • Reviewer for major journals including Science Advances, PRL, ApJL, GRL, JGR, ApJ, A&A, Annales Geophysicae, and others.
  • Conference judging service for AGU/EGU/GEM/TESS student presentation programs.

Contact and Profiles