Aaron Stahl’s Research Homepage

Personal Introduction

Greetings and welcome to my personal research site! I recently completed a PhD in computational physics (May 2024) and I’m now a Research Affiliate at Georgia Tech, where I collaborate with the Magnetospheres in the Outer Solar System research group and Professor Sven Simon to study space physics within our solar system.

Before diving into computational physics, I got my bachelor’s degree in Business from USC, concentrating in Investments and Financial Markets. After graduating, I spent five years in asset management, mostly as an analyst at Strategic Investment Group, a boutique investment manager. My passion for finance never faded, so I’m also using my technical background and Georgia Tech’s vast resources to explore research topics in finance and investing, including using large language models and AI to model the behavioral patterns of retail investors.

I’m a deeply curious person with a broad range of research and professional interests, spanning portfolio management, space physics, programming and AI, and data science. I’m also an avid musician and guitarist, lover of CRPGs, and a husband and father of two. Please explore the links at the top of the site if you’d like to learn more about my work and background, access my resume and CV, or review some educational primers I’ve written on proximate research topics.

Thank you for visiting!

PhD Defense and Recent Publications

In Spring 2024, I defended my PhD dissertation in physics at Georgia Institute of Technology. My research explores magnetospheric space physics at Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, using sophisticated, highly parallelized computational models of the moon’s interaction with the Jovian magnetosphere. Much of the work is summarized in my recently published study, “A Model of Ganymede’s Magnetic and Plasma Environment During the Juno PJ34 Flyby” in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics. I have also recently published peer-reviewed articles on the plasma dynamics of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, during its encounter with NASA’s Juno spacecraft in 2022 (Magnetic Signatures of the Interaction Between Europa and Jupiter’s Magnetosphere During the Juno Flyby) and the presence of electron radiation belts at Ganymede (On the Formation of Trapped Electron Radiation Belts at Ganymede).

Current Status (updated July ‘24)

I’m a Research Affiliate at Georgia Institute of Technology, collaborating with Professor Sven Simon and the Magnetospheres in the Outer Solar System research group to continue advancing our research efforts in space plasma and magnetospheric physics. Currently, I am investigating how the perturbed electromagnetic environment near Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, couples to the behavior of energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) in the vicinity of the moon. I’m also concurrently pursuing research related to my background in investment management and financial markets.

Please reach out (aaron.m.stahl@gmail.com) if you’re interested in any of my work. You can learn more about my research projects via the links at the top of the page.