People
Group Members
Academic Staff
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Prof Helen Brindley Professor in Earth Observation |
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 Head of Physics Dept |
Planetary science |
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Dr Jonathan Eastwood Reader in Space Physics |
Space weather; space plasma physics |
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Dr Bob Forsyth Reader |
Heliospheric physics |
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Professor Marina Galand Professor in Planetary Science |
Planetary upper atmospheres; cometary science |
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Dr Heather Graven Reader in Climate Physics |
Carbon cycle |
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Professor Tim Horbury Head of Group |
Solar wind; magnetosphere; turbulence |
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Dr Adam Masters Senior Lecturer and Royal Society URF |
Planetary science: magnetospheres, interiors, moons |
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Dr Lorenzo Matteini Lecturer |
Space plasma physics |
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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 Professor |
Atmospheric physics |
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Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis Reader in Atmospheric Physics |
Atmospheric physics |
Research Staff
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Dr Martin Archer (Rep) UKRI Stephen Hawking Fellow |
Space plasma physics; magnetospheres; dynamics & waves; simulations |
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Dr Richard Bantges |
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Dr Teruca Belmonte Research Associate |
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Patrick Brown |
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Dr Ravindra Desai |
Space weather; magnetospheric physics; radiation belts; solar physics; planetary science; plasma physics |
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Dr Joe Eggington |
Space weather; magnetospheres; simulations |
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Dr Edward Gryspeerdt |
Cloud physics; atmospheric aerosol; remote sensing |
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Dr Richard Hall |
Large scale air-sea interactions |
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Dr Michael Heyns |
Space physics |
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Dr Heli Hietala |
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Dr Fang LIU |
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Dr Jonathan Murray |
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Dr Peer Nowack |
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Helen O'Brien |
Design/build of space science magnetic field instruments |
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Dr James Rufus |
Earth observation |
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Dr Jacqueline Russell |
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Dr Erik Schaffernicht |
Climate Physics |
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Dr Nathan Sparks |
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Dr Julia Stawarz |
Space plasma physics; turbulence; magnetic reconnection |
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Dr Domenico Trotta
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Dr Lloyd Woodham |
Heliophysics; solar atmosphere; solar wind; turbulence; kinetic plasma physics |
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Dr Giulia Zazzeri |
Carbon cycle; radiocarbon; urban methane emissions |
PhD Students
| Photo | Name | Project title |
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Katie Blackford | The role of peat fires shaping future atmospheric composition the carbon cycle and climate |
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Liam Blyth | Air pollution: Sources and sinks of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere |
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Alexander Brunmayr | Regional Carbon Cycle Modelling |
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Philipp Breul | What determines the ability of the jet stream to shift in response to external forcing? |
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Tsz H Choi (Kelvin) | Building a long-term record of the global solar energy resource from satellite observations |
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Florence Concepcion Mairey | Laboratory Astrophysics: high resolution spectroscopy of astrophysically important atoms for astrophysics applications |
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Milan Ding | Laboratory Astrophysics: New Atomic Data for Astrophysics Applications |
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Michaela Flegrova | Quantifying the radiative impacts of African landscape fires |
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Fumi Hayashi | Monitoring from Space the surface heat budget of the global ocean |
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George Horner (PhD rep) | The impact of aerosol on convective clouds |
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Nawapat (Earn) Kaweeyanun | How does Ganymede's complex magnetic environment work? |
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Harley Kelly | Surface waves above the magnetic poles |
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Alexander Kuhn-Regnier | Predicting the ecological impacts of future fire activity on a global scale |
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Ronan Laker | Investigating the Solar Wind in the Inner Heliosphere |
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Adrian LaMoury | Structure formation at shock waves and its space weather impacts |
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Harry Lewis | Probing the nonlinear dynamics of turbulence in space plasmas |
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Zoe Lewis | Plasma environment around comet 67P |
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Laura Mansfield | Model reduction using emulation for understanding and predicting climate responses to different regional emission forcings |
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Jamie Matthews | The Gulf Stream as a modulator of blocking and European temperatre extremes |
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Rebecca Murray-Watson | Investigating the impact of aerosols on mixed-phase clouds |
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Joseph Ovwemuvwmose | Carbon cycling in next-generation terrestrial ecosystem models |
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Sanjeevani Panditharatne | Understanding how Earth is losing its cool: A study in support of the FORUM satellite mission |
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Jacob Parrott | Global exploration of the upper atmosphere of Mars using radio occultation measurements |
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Sadie Robertson | The physics of energy transfer in magnetic reconnection |
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Beltran Sajonia-Coburgo Gotha | Truth and Forum |
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Pietro Salvi | 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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Marie Shaylor | Diagnosing dust-climate interactions in observations to test Earth System Models |
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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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Yan Lok (Enoch) Tsui | Climate physics |
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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 |
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Thomas Woolley | Physics of the Inner Heliosphere |
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Sophia Zomerdijk-Russell (PhD rep) | Getting to grips with Mercury's dynamic space environment as the Bepicolombo mission flies to the innermost planet |
Support Staff
| Photo | Name | Job role and responsibilities |
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Tony Allen | Senior Scientific and Managerial Officer |
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Aria Vitkova | Instrument Engineer - Space |
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Irene Ruiz | Instrument Engineer - Space |
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Virginia Angelini | Solar Orbiter MAG Calibration Engineer |
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Richard Baughen | Instrument Engineer |
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Christian Clear | Group Safety Officer |
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Emanuele Cupido | Instrument Manager |
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John Hodgkins | Electronic Engineer |
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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 |
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David Owen | Administrative Assistant |
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Azra Sabadosh | Senior Section Administrator |
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Alex Strickland | Instrument Software Engineer |
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Alastair Crabtree | MAG Software Engineer |
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Edward Fauchon-Jones | MAG Software Engineer |
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Christopher Greenaway | Solar Orbiter MAG Systems Engineer |
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Alan Roberts | MAG Electrical and Electronics Engineer |
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Madeleine Tomes | MAG Instrument 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 FRS |
Atmospheric radiation, climate modeling |
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Prof. John Harries |
Imperial College |
Atmospheric Physics |
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Dr. Matt Owens |
University of Reading |
Space Physics |
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Prof. Steve Schwartz |
University of Colorado Boulder |
Space Physics |
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Prof. David Southwood |
Imperial College |
Space plasma physics; Giant planet magnetospheres; Space Weather; Space Law |
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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
- Martin Goldman
- Richard Harrison
- Stuart Bale
Visiting researchers
- Arnaud Beth
- Douglas Blackie
- Simon Good
- Paul Green
- Lars Mejnertsen
- Licia Ray
- Sunil Varma
Academic visitor
- Ali Haidar Sulaiman
- Andreas Pollinger
- Chon Fai (Charlie) Lok
- Christoph Beischl
- Christophe Bellisario
- Christopher HK Chen
- Ekin Ozturk
- Guangtao Dong
- Hao Cao
- Joshua Michael Chadney
- Maciej Szymon Bendyk
- Steve Kellock
- Vincent John Hare