Rinat Tagirov
I graduated from the Department of Astronomy of Saint-Petersburg State University in 2011.
My diploma work was written in affiliation with Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute and is
concerned with the physical conditions in molecular clouds at high redshifts.
Later on I commenced my PhD studies at the Physical-Meteorological Observatory Davos.
My thesis is devoted to the upgrade of accelerated Lambda-iterations in
the NLTE Spectral SYnthesys code (NESSY),
modeling of solar spectrum and center-to-limb variations and finding the connection between the
radio and UV variability of the Sun.
I defended my thesis at ETH Zurich in 2016 and moved to Imperial College London to work on
the implementation of mixed NLTE/LTE calculations in NESSY.
Upon the completion of this project I employed the code to perform NLTE verification of
the Spectral And Total Irradiance REconstruction (SATIRE-S) model.
Currently, I am a postdoc at Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research,
where I work on the development of a model for solar and stellar brightness variability
based on
the Surface Flux Transport calculations.
Research Interests
Radiative transfer. NLTE effects. Solar and stellar spectrum/variability modeling.
