portfolio
education
- Ph.D., Physics, 2019, University of Massachusetts--Lowell, MA.
- B.S., Physics, 2012, University of Toledo, OH.
research experience
- West Virginia University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2024-Current
- University of Michigan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2019-2023
research interests
- Uncertainty quantification in space weather.
- Magnetospheric physics and modeling.
- Solar chromosphere physics and modeling.
- Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics.
- Space physics modeling using GPUs.
- Functional programming.
selected publications
- A Large Simulation Set of Geomagnetic Storms—Can Simulations
Predict Ground Magnetometer Station Observations of Magnetic Field
Perturbations? Q. Al Shidi, T. Pulkkinen, G. Toth, A.
Brenner, S. Zou, J. Gjerloev. Space Weather (2022).
doi:10.1029/2022SW003049
- Time-Dependent Two-Fluid Magnetohydrodynamic Model and Simulation of the Chromosphere. Q. Al Shidi, O. Cohen, P. Song, J. Tu., Solar Physics (2019). doi:10.1007/s11207-019-1513-8
- Multi-Fluid Collisional Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling. Q. Al Shidi. Ph.D. Dissertation (2019). download
- What sustained multi-disciplinary research can achieve: The space weather modeling framework
Tamas I. Gombosi, Yuxi Chen, Alex Glocer, Zhenguang Huang,
Xianzhe Jia, Michael W. Liemohn, Ward B. Manchester, Tuija
Pulkkinen, Nishtha Sachdeva, Qusai Al Shidi, Igor V. Sokolov,
Judit Szente, Valeriy Tenishev, Gabor Toth, Bart van der Holst,
Daniel T. Welling, Lulu Zhao and Shasha Zou.
https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2021020
- Simulating Solar Maximum Conditions Using the Alfven Wave Solar-Atmosphere Model (AWSoM)
Nishtha Sachdeva, Gábor Tóth, Ward B Manchester, Bart Van Der Holst,
Zhenguang Huang, Igor V Sokolov, Lulu Zhao, Qusai Al Shidi, Yuxi Chen,
Tamas I Gombosi, Carl J Henney
https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10507983.1
software
- CoMFi - Collisional Multi-Fluid Ion Magnetohydrodynamic code. github
- swmfpy - Space Weather Modeling Framework Python library.
github
programming languages
- Python
- C and C++
- Haskell
- Linux and Shell scripting
