Michele Dougherty
PPARC Advanced Fellow in Space Physics (to take up Lectureship on 1st December
2000)
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Office: Huxley Building Room 6M54
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Phone: 44- (0)171-594-7757
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Fax: 44- (0)171-594-7772
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e-mail: m.dougherty@ic.ac.uk
Background
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PhD, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 1988
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Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union
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1996 Zeldovich COSPAR medal winner
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Associate Editor for JGR (Space Physics)
Current Research Interests:
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The magnetosphere
of Jupiter
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The magnetosphere of
Saturn
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Solar wind interaction with planetary bodies
Mission Involvement
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Ulysses (magnetometer team member, Jupiter analysis)
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Galileo (magnetometer team member, Guest Investigator on NASA Jupiter System
Data Analysis Program)
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Cassini (co-investigator on magnetometer team and science co-ordinator
for team)
Publications
Invited Presentations
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EGS meeting, the Hague, 1996 (Overview of recent results from Jupiter)
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Western Pacific AGU meeting, Taipei, July 1998 (The Jovian Magnetosphere
from the Pioneer through to the Galileo epoch)
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EGS meeting, the Hague, April 1999 (Magnetic field nulls in Planetary Magnetospheres)
Graduate Students
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Dr. C. Lofting (the Jovian magnetosphere, graduated 1997)
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R. Wilson (waves in the Jovian magnetosphere)
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S. Espinosa (the Saturnian magnetosphere)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. P. Petkaki (Ion cyclotron waves in the Jovian magentosphere)
Teaching and Lectures
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course associate for Space Physics course (lecturer Prof. A. Balogh)
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lecturer on Plasma Physics post-graduate course
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responsible for group post-graduate recruitment
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member of Physics Graduate Studies Committee
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co-supervise MSci project
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lecture at numerous summer schools, such as:
PPARC Astrophysics School, Imperial College, Sept. 1996
PPARC Advanced summer school in solar system plasmas, Leicester, Sept.
1998
Solar and extra-solar planetary systems summer school, EADN, Ballyvaughn,
Sept. 1998
Postgraduate Studies:
Public Understanding of Science:
Michele Dougherty 11 January
1999.
