#  Sophia Sánchez-Maes 

Postdoctoral Research Associate

 

 

 



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 email <sophiasm@umd.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Sophia Sánchez-Maes' Faculty Page at the University of Maryland](https://faculty.eng.umd.edu/clark/faculty/2018/Sophia-S%C3%A1nchez-Maes) 

 

 



 

Sophia Sánchez-Maes is a physicist whose work bridges observational, computational, and instrumental approaches to study plasma processes in extreme astrophysical environments. She develops high-cadence soft X-ray instrumentation for solar flare imaging, runs 3D general relativistic particle-in-cell (GRPIC) simulations of black hole accretion and flares, and analyzes magnetic reconnection as a driver of high-energy variability. Sophia is particularly interested in how theory, observation, and hardware can be integrated to understand energetic transients in the solar and galactic center environments.



 

 

 





 

 

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