News & Events
Moa Persson visiting (Feb 16, 2026)
Moa Persson from Uppsala University visits the MEOW team. An exciting week-long science intensive on Mercury's magnetospheric waves in light of MESSENGER observations and global hybrid modelling as well as the upcoming BepiColombo PWI/MEFISTO observations!
iPIC3D meeting (Feb 4, 2026)
MEOW participates in the conference on the full-kinetic iPIC3D particle plasma model at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Modelling Astrophysical Plasmas with iPIC3D: First Conference on Implicit PIC Simulations and Beyond
(call closed) We are reqruiting: PhD position (Dec 1, 2025)
Doctoral researcher (PhD student) position in our team to study Mercury's space plasma physics and/or to develop high-perfomance computing methods (call closed).
BepiColombo/SIXS in Finland Seminar (Nov 25, 2025)
Seminar on the history, designing, building, current status and science of BepiColombo's Finnish-lead Solar Intensity X-ray and particle Spectrometer (SIXS) instrument.
Program
Finnish Meteorological InstituteDynamicum
- 15:00 – 15:30: Coffee
- 15:30 – 17:00: Talks
- 17:00 – Refreshments and informal discussions
Talks
- Emilia Kilpua (University of Helsinki): BepiColombo mission status & next steps
- Juhani Huovelin (Isaware): History of SIXS
- Rami Vainio (University of Turku): How did SIXS become also a particle instrument?
- Maria Genzer (Finnish Meteorological Institute): A project manager’s view
- Jussi Lehti (ASTRO): SIXS-P Development at ASRO
- Hans Andersson (Oxford Instruments Technologies Oy): SIXS Sensor Unit Design and AIT
- Liam Edwards (University of Helsinki): SIXS energetic particle observations during BepiColombo's flybys
- Karri Muinonen (University of Helsinki): Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer MIXS
- Riku Järvinen (Finnish Meteorological Institute): Mercury’s space weather and modeling
BepiColombo SWT #25 (Oct 27, 2025)
BepiColombo Science Working Team number 25 and a week full of exciting Mercury science collaborations and planning at European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) near Madrid.
European Space Weather Week (Oct 27, 2025)
MEOW participation at ESWW2025 in Umeå, Sweden!
Our presentation:
EPSC-DPS 2025 in Helsinki, welcome colleagues! (Aug 27, 2025)
The MEOW team will participate in the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025 here in Helsinki, Finland!
Warmly welcome all collegues and friends for a week of great Mercury and planetary science in our project's home city!
Our presentations:
- Phillips+: Global hybrid-particle simulations of Mercury's ion foreshock and ULF waves
Thu, Sep 11, 18:00–19:30 (EEST), Finlandia Hall foyer, poster F66 - Honkonen+: On enhancing parallel global hybrid-particle model with run-time adaptive mesh refinement and temporal substepping
Thu, Sep 11, 18:00–19:30 (EEST), Finlandia Hall foyer, poster F67 - Jarvinen+: Global hybrid-particle modelling of Mercury’s space plasma environment and BepiColombo observations
Thu, Sep 11, 18:00–19:30 (EEST), Finlandia Hall foyer, poster F68
AP-RASC 2025 (Aug 5, 2025)
MEOW presentation at the URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference 2025, Sydney, Austria
- Jarvinen+: Mercury's Magnetospheric Solar Wind Interaction in a Global Hybrid Simulation
Tue, Aug 19, 14:10–14:30 (CEST), Room C3.5
Hello EGU25 and Vienna! (Apr 26, 2025)
The MEOW team will participate in the EGU General Assembly 2025 in Wien, Austria
Our presentations:
- Jarvinen+: Solar wind coupling with magnetospheres of terrestrial planets
Tue, Apr 29, 08:30–08:50 (CEST), Room 1.34 - Honkonen+: Platform of adaptive algorithms for global simulations of planetary space weather
Thu, May 1, 16:15–18:00 (CEST), Hall X4, poster X4.142 - Phillips+: Plasma waves in a global ion-kinetic hybrid simulation for Mercury's space weather
Thu, May 1, 16:15–18:00 (CEST), Hall X4, poster X4.143
(call closed) We are hiring! (Mar 10, 2025)
3-year postdoc position in our team to study Mercury's space plasma physics (call closed).
Kick-off seminar (Feb 14, 2025)
Kick-off seminar of the Mercury in the solar wind (MEOW) ERC Consolidator Grant project. We discuss space weather in light of the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission and the development of our space plasma simulation tools.
Friday, Feb 14, 2025
- 12:30 Riku Järvinen (FMI): Mercury in the solar wind, the BepiColombo mission and our global particle-based space weather modeling
- 13:00 Ilja Honkonen (FMI): Generic programming and adaptive methods in space weather modeling
- 13:30 David Phillips (FMI): From relativistic MHD to hybrid simulation development
- 14:00 Refreshments and discussion
- 15:00 Closing
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