Speakers

Dr. Thamer Alrefay is a space physicist and scientific consultant for the AlUla Manara Space Science Laboratory and Observatory. His work centers on space physics modeling and the computational foundations of numerical solutions in space science, spanning space situational awareness, spacecraft spatial data analysis, and advanced satellite signal processing. He holds a particular fascination for the dynamics of Earth's magnetosphere, the fluctuations of the solar wind, and the broader behavior of space weather.
Dr. Alrefay earned his Ph.D. in Space Physics from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, in 2014, with a dissertation titled A Cluster Mult-spacecraft Study of Earth's Bow Shock. He holds an M.Sc. in Space Science from the Florida Institute of Technology, USA (2003), where his research addressed the spacecraft environment and radiation belts, and a B.Sc. in Physics–Astronomy from King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia (1996), with a thesis on the spectroscopic analysis of giant stars.