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Member Since 2010
Roelf Du Toit Strauss
Professor, North-West University
Professional Experience
North-West University
Professor
2008 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2013
Current Roles
Member
Africa Award for Research Excellence in Earth and Ocean Sciences Committee
Member
Africa Award for Research Excellence in Space Sciences Committee
Honors & Awards
Africa Award for Research Excellence in Space Sciences
Received 2021
Professor Dr. Du Toit Strauss became A prominent international figure in space research during his early years of undergraduate and graduate studies. During his first conference participations at AGU and Committee on Space Research assemblies he pres...
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Publications
Living With Cosmic Radiation

The last two decades of cosmic ray research have been eventful, to say the least. The Voyager spacecraft explored the outer‐most regions of t...

October 21, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Solar Orbiter, STEREO-A and near-Earth spacecraft SEP observations during a quick succession of EUV jets in November 2022
ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT OF SUPRATHERMAL AND ENERGETIC PARTICLES IN THE INNER HELIOSPHERE: OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING I ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 14 december 2023
David Lario, Laura Balmaceda, Raul Gomez-Herrero, ...
A series of near-relativistic solar electron events was observed on November 9 to 15, 2022 by STEREO-A at 0.96 au, by near-Earth spacecraft such as AC...
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Diffusion-induced Drift of Solar Energetic Particles
ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT OF SUPRATHERMAL AND ENERGETIC PARTICLES IN THE INNER HELIOSPHERE: OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 14 december 2023
Roelf D. Strauss, Nicolas Wijsen, Ian G. Richardso...
Recent multi-spacecraft observations have shown how the spatial distribution of solar energetic particles (SEPs) evolves during an event. Especially i...
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The Effect of Perpendicular Diffusion on Solar Energetic Particle Electron and Proton Onset Times; Evidence for a Common Accelerator
ENERGETIC PARTICLES FROM THE SUN TO THE HELIOSPHERE II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 15 december 2022
Roelf D. Strauss, Nina Dresing, Ian G. Richardson
In a turbulent magnetic field with transversal complexity, energetic particles will be scattered along (through pitch-angle diffusion) and perpendicul...
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Volunteer History
2024 - 2025
Member
Africa Award for Research Excellence in Earth and Ocean Sciences Committee
2024 - 2025
Member
Africa Award for Research Excellence in Space Sciences Committee
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