Rate My Professor Jonathan Squire

Squire's research focuses on plasma astrophysics and fluid dynamics, particularly cosmic turbulence, microinstabilities, helicity barrier-mediated coronal heating, collisionless plasma dynamics, Alfvénic switchbacks, turbulent heating in low-β plasmas, and dust instabilities. He leads the Astro Plasmas and Fluids group, employing analytic theory, simulations, and code development to investigate astrophysical systems like the solar corona/wind, accretion disks, planet formation, interstellar medium, and cosmic rays. Notable awards include the Thomas H. Stix Award (APS DPP, 2022), Outstanding Early-Career Researcher (Otago Division of Sciences, 2022), Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (2018), International Fulbright S&T Fellowship (2010-2013), and Princeton's Prince of Wales Prize (2009). Select publications: "Turbulent Heating in Collisionless Low-β Plasmas: Imbalance, Landau Damping, and Electron–Ion Energy Partition" (ApJ 2025), "Stochastic Heating in the Sub-Alfvénic Solar Wind" (PRL under review 2025), "A two-fluid solar-wind model with intermittent Alfvénic turbulence" (J. Plasma Phys. 2025), "Dust Battery: A Novel Mechanism for Seed Magnetic Field Generation in the Early Universe" (ApJ 2025), "FORGE’d in FIRE II: The Formation of Magnetically-Dominated Quasar Accretion Disks" (Open J. Astrophys. 2024), "In-situ Switchback Formation in the Expanding Solar Wind" (ApJL 2020). His work elucidates key plasma processes shaping astrophysical phenomena.