Petrus C. H. Martens

Petrus C. Martens received the BS degree in astronomy in 1977, and the MS and PhD in theoretical astrophysics, from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 1979 and 1983, respectively. He is currently a full tenured professor with GSU. He has well more than 100 refereed publications in his name and has mentored several successful graduate students. He is a solar physicist with experience in theory, simulations, data processing and analysis, automated feature recognition, data analytics, science operations, and space instrumentation. He has had mission involvement with Yohkoh, SoHO, TRACE, and SDO. Together with Prof. Angryk, he leads the interdisciplinary solar-stellar informatics research cluster with GSU.