Laura Rodríguez García

Laura Rodríguez García is a Research Fellow at the European Space Agency (ESA), conducting critical research on solar energetic particles (SEPs) and their longitudinal spread in the heliosphere using data from ESA's Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo missions alongside NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Her work focuses on SEP events linked to fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and CME-driven shocks, with direct implications for space weather forecasting to protect astronauts and spacecraft electronics from radiation hazards.

Her research spans:

• Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) event dynamics
• Widespread SEP propagation mechanisms
• Coronal mass ejection (CME) evolution from corona to heliosphere (ICMEs)
• Space weather impact modeling
• Heliospheric physics near 0.3 AU
• JUICE mission cruise phase science development

Dr. Rodríguez García maintains extensive international collaborations including Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) for Solar Orbiter's Energetic Particle Detector, the SERPENTINE project across Europe, and multiple U.S. institutions (NASA Goddard, George Mason University, Johns Hopkins APL, Predictive Science Inc.), alongside University of Turku (Finland) and National Observatory of Athens (Greece).

Scientific Awards: No awards documented in source materials.

Advising and Grants: No student supervision or grant funding information provided in available documentation.

Labs and Teams: Core member of ESA mission science teams for Solar Orbiter (EPD instrument), BepiColombo (BERM/SIXS instruments), and JUICE (RADEM instrument), actively contributing to in-situ heliospheric observations and space weather research infrastructure.