Current Members
| Dr. Craig Rodger | Professor (Beverly Professor of Physics) | ResearcherID |
| Dr. Annika Seppälä | Associate Professor | ScopusID |
| Dr. Jono Squire | Associate Professor | ScopusID |
| Dr. Neil Thomson | Associate Professor (retired) | |
| Dr. Mikhail Kruglyakov | Research Fellow | |
| Dr. James Brundell | part-time Research Fellow | ResearcherID |
| Dr. Romain Meyrand | Research Fellow | |
| Dr. Daniel Mac Manus | Postdoctoral Fellow | |
| Dr. Lisa Evans | Assistant Research Fellow | |
| Zade Johnston | PhD Student | |
| Hannah Kessenich | PhD Student | |
| Xinhu Feng | PhD student | |
| Khurram Abbas | PhD student | |
| Tasmin Leonard-Paterson | MSc Student | |
| CJ Barnes-Wilkie | Summer fellowship student (2024/25) | |
| James Dene Elford-McArthur | Summer fellowship student (2024/25) | |
| Delta Cox | Summer fellowship student (2024/25) | |
| Ouji Kurimura | Summer fellowship student (2024/25) | |
| Lara Donaldson-Scott | Summer fellowship student (2024/25) |
Contact details for all current members of the Space Physics Research Group can be found at the Staff Directory Listing and the Student Directory Listing.
The annual Space Physics image was updated Friday 11 August 2023. From left to right: Neil Thomson, Tasmin Leonard-Paterson, James Brundell, Hannah Kessenich, Zade Johnston, Annika Seppälä, Romain Meyrand, Craig Rodger, Jono Squire, Daniel Mac Manus, and Mikhail Kruglyakov. Unfortunately, Aaron Hendry missed the photo this year.
Recent Members
| CJ Barnes-Wilkie | Honours Student (2024) |
| George Alexander | Honours Student (2024) |
| CJ Barnes | Summer fellowship student (2023/24) |
| George Alexander | Summer fellowship student (2023/24) |
| Embla Wihk | Summer fellowship student (2023/24) |
| Tasmin Leonard-Paterson | Honours Student (2023) |
| Dr. Aaron Hendry | Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2023) |
| Devlin Lynden | Assistant Research Fellow |
| Malcolm Crack | MSc Student (2022/2023) |
| Daniel Mac Manus | PhD Student (2019-2022) |
| Sophie Cook | MSc Student (2023) |
| Tasmin Leonard-Paterson | Summer fellowship student (2022/23) |
| Petra Fisher | Summer fellowship student (2022/23) |
| Maia Dean | Summer fellowship student (2022/23) |
| Maxwell Busby | Summer fellowship student (2022/23) |
| Anna Tarr | Assistant Research Fellow |
| Harrison Devane | Honours Student (2022) |
| Jayvan Liu | Honours Student (2022) |
| Sophie Cook | Honours Student (2022) |
| Jackson Fowler | Honours Student (2022) |
| Sam Belcher | MSc Student |
| Ryan Davis | MSc Student |
| Zade Johnston | MSc Student |
| Harrison Devane | Summer fellowship student (2021/22) |
| Maia Dean | Summer fellowship student (2021/22) |
| Tasmin Leonard-Paterson | Summer fellowship student (2021/22) |
| Mehara Salpadoru | Summer fellowship student (2021/22) |
| Sophie Cook | Summer fellowship student (2021/22) |
| Yuna Barbenel | Summer fellowship student (2021/22) |
| Malcolm Crack | Summer fellowship student (2021/22) |
| Keeta Chapman-Smith | MSc Student |
| Viktoria Nordstrom | MSc Student |
| Malcolm Crack | Honours Student (2021) |
| Chris Hill | Honours Student (2021) |
| Sophie Cook | Summer fellowship student (2020/21) |
| Sam Belcher | Summer fellowship student (2020/21) |
| Keeta Chapman-Smith | Honours Student (2020) |
| Sam Belcher | Honours Student (2020) |
| Zade Johnston | Honours Student (2020) |
| Ryan Davis | Honours Student (2020) |
| Emily Gordon | MSc Student |
| Viktoria Nordstrom | Summer fellowship student (2019/20) |
| Sophie Cook | Summer fellowship student (2019/20) |
| Dr. Tim Divett | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Emma Douma | PhD Student |
| Daniel Mac Manus | MSc Student |
| Harriet George | Honours Student (2018) |
| Emily Gordon | Honours Student (2018) |
| Oliver King | Summer fellowship student (2017/18) |
| Aaron Hendry | PhD Student |
| Nathan Williams | Honours Student (2017) |
| Daniel Mac Manus | Summer fellowship student (2016/17) |
| Daniel Mac Manus | Honours Student (2016) |
| Dr. Neil Thomson | Associate Professor (retired April 2016) |
| Kathy Cresswell-Moorcock | PhD Student – withdrew for medical reasons March 2016 |
| Daniel Mac Manus | Summer fellowship student (2015/16) |
| Emma Douma | Summer fellowship student (2014/15) |
| Dr. Ian Whittaker | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Alexander Schwertheim | PGDipSci Student (2014) |
| Emma Douma | Honours Student (2014) |
| Kathy Cresswell-Moorcock | MSc Student (2013-2014) |
| Jason Neal | MSc Student (2013-2014) |
| Timothy Marshall | Summer fellowship student (2013/14) |
| Jason Neal | Summer fellowship student (2012/13) |
| Kathy Cresswell-Moorcock | Summer fellowship student (2012/13) |
| Jason Neal | Honours student (2012) |
| Kathy Cresswell-Moorcock | PGDipSci Student (2012) |
| Dr. Mea Simon Wedlund | PhD Student (her second PhD) – withdrew for medical reasons September 2012 |
| Bonar Carson | MSc Student (completed early 2012) |
| Aaron Hendry | Summer fellowship student (2011/12) |
| Aaron Hendry | Honours student (2011) |
| Dr. Rory Gamble | PhD Student (completed 2011) |
| Nicholas Hananeia | PGDipSci Student (2010) |
| Robert McCormick | MSc Student (completed 2010) |
| Sarah Dietrich | MSc Student (completed 2009) |
| Bonar Carson | Honours Student (2009) |
| Sarah Dietrich | Honours Student (2007) |
| Johnny Downs | Honours Student (2007) |
| Mikhail Turner | Honours Student (2007) |
| Simon Stewart | Summer scholarship student (2005/06) |
| Greg Mcdowell | Honours Student (2005) |
| Greg Masters | Honours Student (2006) |
| Oliver Stigley | Summer scholarship student (2004/05) |
| Jonathan Nielsen | Honours Student (2004) |
| Michael Grant | Honours Student (2004) |
| Simon Werner | Honours Student (2003) |
| Peter Thompson | Honours Student (2003) |
| Robert McCormick | Honours Student (2001) |
| Israel Waldrom | Honours Student (2001) |
Visitors
| Dr. Mark Clilverd | regular collaborator & yearly visitor | British Antarctic Survey (UK) |
| Assoc. Prof. Claudia Martinez | January-February 2025 | Nagoya University |
| Shannon Killey | August – October 2024 | University of Northumbria (UK) |
| Dr. Jay Albert | February-March 2024 | Air Force Research Lab (USA) |
| Dr. Maxime Grandin | February-March 2024 | University of Helsinki |
| Jodie McLennan | February 2024 & February 2025 | University of Iowa (USA) |
| Assoc. Prof. Allison Jaynes | January – May 2024 | University of Iowa (USA) |
| Dr. Pauline Dredger | February 2024 | University of Michigan (USA) |
| Dr. Dan Welling | February 2023 & February 2024 | University of Michigan (USA) |
| Dr. Aaron Hendry | January 2024 | British Antarctic Survey (UK) |
| Dr. Harriet George | November 2023 | University of Colorado Boulder (USA) |
| Prof. Richard Horne | February/March 2023 | British Antarctic Survey (UK) |
| Dr. Yuki Obana | February 2011, March 2012, 2013 2014, February 2015, August 2016, March 2017, September 2017, September 2018, February 2019, October 2022, and February 2023. | Kyushu University (Japan) |
| Dr. Keisuke Hosokawa | September 2018, and February 2023. | Tokyo Electro-Communication University (Japan) |
| Dr. Aaron Hendry | December 2019/January 2020, October 2019, and December 2018/January 2019 | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, The Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech) |
| Prof. Bob Lysak | February 2019 | University of Minnesota |
| Prof. Esa Turunen, Dr. Antti Kero, and Dr. Jia Jia | October 2018 | Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (Finland) |
| Dr. Maxime Grandin | October 2018 | Helsinki University (Finland) |
| Ji-Hee Lee | October 2018 | Korea Polar Research Institute (Republic of Korea) |
| Dr. Tanja Peterson, Dr. Wiebke Heise, and Dr. Ted Bertrand | September 2018 | GNS Science (New Zealand) |
| Kamran Mukhtar | September 2018 | Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) |
| Moritz Wolf | Research Intern (2016/2017) | Munich University of Applied Sciences (Germany) |
| Prof. Fran Bagenal | March 2017 | University of Colorado Boulder (USA) |
| Dr. Gemma Kelly | February 2017 and August-September 2018 | British Geological Survey (UK) |
| Dr. Alan Thomson and Ellen Clarke | May 2016 and September-October 2018 | British Geological Survey (UK) |
| Dr. Malcolm Ingham | May 2016 and September 2018 | Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) |
| Michael Dalzell | May 2016 and September 2018 | Transpower New Zealand Ltd. |
| Assoc. Prof. Adrian McDonald | December 2013 and October 2014 | University of Canterbury (New Zealand) |
| Dr. Monika Andersson | January 2014 | Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) |
| Dr. Pekka Verronen | November 2006 and January 2014 | Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) |
| Dr. Mark Clilverd | Jan-April 2014 (sabbatical) | British Antarctic Survey (UK) |
| Neil Cobbett | January-February 2011 and 2014 | British Antarctic Survey (UK) |
| Prof. Anthony Chan | July-August 2012, July 2013 and July 2014 | Rice University (USA) |
| Assoc. Prof. Sushil Kumar | January-April 2011 | University of the South Pacific (Fiji) |
| Dr. Steve Cummer | sabbatical 2009 | Duke University (USA) |
| Dr. Annika Seppälä | two collaboration visits (2006 & 2007), now one of our staff! | Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) |
| Dr. János Lichtenberger | two collaboration visits (2005 & 2007) | Eötvös University (Hungary) |
| Dr. Fred Menk | January 2008 | University of Newcastle (Australia) |
| Dr. Esa Turunen | November 2005 | Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (Finland) |
| Tom Broux | Summer intern 2004/05 | Technical University Eindhoven (Holland) |
| Dr. Bob Holzworth | mid-2004 | University of Washington (USA) |
| Erin Lay | mid-2004 | University of Washington (USA) |
| Dr. John Grunsfeld | June 2002 | NASA (USA) |
You can learn more about our research activities by looking at our page About the Space Physics Group.