People
Group Members
Academic Staff
| Photo | Name | Scientific interests |
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Dr Helen Brindley Reader |
Atmospheric physics |
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Dr Chris Carr Senior Research Lecturer |
Space instrumentation |
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Dr Paulo Ceppi Research Fellow |
Grantham Institute |
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Dr Arnaud Czaja Reader |
Atmosphere-ocean interactions |
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Professor Michele Dougherty Professor, FRS |
Planetary science |
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Dr Jonathan Eastwood Senior Lecturer |
Space weather; space plasma physics |
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Dr Bob Forsyth Reader |
Heliospheric physics |
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Dr Marina Galand Reader |
Planetary upper atmospheres; cometary science |
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Dr Heather Graven Senior Lecturer |
Carbon cycle |
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Professor Tim Horbury Professor |
Solar wind; magnetosphere; turbulence |
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Dr Adam Masters Lecturer and Royal Society URF |
Planetary science |
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Dr Ingo Mueller-Wodarg Reader |
Planetary upper atmospheres |
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Professor Juliet Pickering Professor |
Atmospheric physics and laboratory spectroscopy |
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Professor Ralf Toumi Head of Group |
Atmospheric physics |
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Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis Senior Lecturer |
Atmospheric physics |
Research Staff
| Photo | Name | Scientific interests |
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Dr Richard Bantges | Scientific Project Manager |
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Dr Teruca Belmonte | Research Associate |
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Dr Arnaud Beth | Research Associate |
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Patrick Brown | Senior Instrumentation Manager |
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Gianluca Carnielli | Research Assistant |
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Christian Clear | Research Associate |
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Dr Ravindra Desai | Research Associate |
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Dr Imogen Gingell | Research Associate |
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Dr Edward Gryspeerdt | Royal Society URF |
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Dr Heli Hietala | Royal Society URF |
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Dr Gregory Hunt | Research Associate (Rep) |
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Dr Jonathan Murray | Research Fellow |
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Dr Peer Nowack | Research Fellow |
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Helen O'Brien | Senior Instrument Manager |
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Research Associate |
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Research Associate (GERB Operations Scientist) |
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Research Associate (GERB Project Scientist) |
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Dr Nathan Sparks | Innovations Researcher |
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David Stansby | Research Assistant |
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Dr Julia Stawarz | Research Associate |
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Dr Giulia Zazzeri | Research Associate |
PhD Students
| Photo | Name | Project title |
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Cassini end of mission science | |
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Building a long-term record of the global solar energy resource from satellite |
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Laboratory Astrophysics: high resolution spectroscopy of astrophysically important atoms for astrophysics applications |
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Inner heliosphere studies of the solar wind |
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A Multi-Dataset Analysis of the Dynamics of Saturn's Magnetic Field Configuration | |
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Joe Eggington (PhD Rep) |
Global simulations of planetary magnetospheres |
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Earth's Entropy Budget | |
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Monitoring from Space the surface heat budget of the global ocean | |
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How does Ganymede's complex magnetic environment work? |
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Predicting the ecological impacts of future fire activity on a global scale. | |
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Revealing the Structure of Jupiter’s Complex Magnetic Field | |
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Model reduction using emulation for understanding and predicting climate responses to different regional emission forcings | |
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The physics of energy transfer in magnetic reconnection | |
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Improving our understanding of radiative forcing in climate modelling | |
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Eric Schoenrock |
Estimating and attributing regional methane emissions using innovative atmospheric measurements |
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Peter Shatwell | |
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Ned Staniland | Magnetospheric dynamics and global field modelling at Saturn |
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Peter Stephenson |
Energy deposition in the coma of comet 67P probed by Rosetta |
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Carl Thomas |
Using machine learning to constrain the atmospheric dynamics contribution to regional climate change |
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Laura Warwick |
Investigating the impact of IR surface emissivity knowledge & uncertainties on climate & weather-forecasting timescales |
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Chris Wells | Human health co-benefits from climate change mitigation |
Support Staff
| Photo | Name | Job role and responsibilities |
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Tony Allen | Senior Scientific and Managerial Officer |
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Richard Baughen | Instrument Engineer |
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Isaias Carrasco-Blazquez | Instrument Operations/Calibrations Engineer |
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Emanuele Cupido | Instrument Manager |
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John Hodgkins | Electronic Engineer |
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Rachel Hudson | Instrument Engineer JUICE |
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Alan Last | Technician |
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Ciara Mulholland | Senior Section Administrator |
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Tim Oddy | Spacecraft Operations Engineer/Group Safety Officer |
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David Owen | Administrative Assistant |
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Chiara Palla | Instrument Engineer |
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Azra Sabadosh | Senior Section Administrator |
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Alex Strickland | Instrument Software Engineer |
Senior and Honorary
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Name |
Affiliation |
Scientific Interests |
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Prof. Andre Balogh |
Imperial College |
Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Physics |
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Dr. Ken Bignell |
Imperial College |
Meteorology |
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Prof. Peter Cargill |
Imperial College / University of St Andrews |
Physics of Sun, Solar Wind and Magnetosphere |
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Professor Joanna Haigh |
Atmospheric radiation, climate modeling |
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Prof. John Harries (Emeritus Professor) |
Imperial College |
Atmospheric Physics |
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Dr. Matt Owens |
University of Reading |
Space Physics |
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Prof. Steve Schwartz (Distinguished Research Investigator) |
University of Colorado Boulder |
Space Physics |
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Prof. David Southwood |
Imperial College |
Space plasma physics; planetry science |
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Dr. Wenyi Zhong |
Imperial College |
Atmospheric Physics |
Visiting Professors & Researchers
The following scientists have close associations with the Group as visiting professors or researchers, supporting and broadening the Group's research base:
Visiting professors
- Bale, Stuart
- Dunlop, Malcolm
- Goldman, Martin
- Harrison, Richard
- Lockwood, Mike
- Mendillo, Michael
- Rapley, Chris
- Thompson, Mike
Visiting researchers
- Archer, Martin
- Arcucci, Rossella
- Blackie, Douglas
- Green, Paul
- Hietala, Heli
- Kowalski, Peter
- Lucek, Elizabeth
- Mushtaq, Sohail
- Qu, Yawei
- Ray, Licia
Academic visitor
- Ali Haidar, Sulaiman
- Bendyk, Maciej
- Chen, Christopher
- Dong, Guangtao
- Lok, Charlie
- Matteini, Lorenzo
- Mejnersten, Lars