About

Sarah Jabbari started her PhD in September 2012 in the astrophysics group at Nordita and the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University. She arrived from Zanjan University in Iran where she worked on magnetohydrodynamic waves in curved and low plasma-beta solar coronal loops. The topic of her PhD work is the "Origin of solar surface activity and sunspots". Her position is funded jointly by the Astronomy Department at Stockholm University and a research grant from the Swedish Research Council with Axel Brandenburg as PI.