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 | Honours Student (2024) | |
George Alexander | Honours Student (2024) |
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.
Recent Members
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. 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.