Michele Dougherty
Reader in Space Physics
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Office: Huxley Building Room 707
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Phone: 44- (0)20-7594-7757
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Fax: 44- (0)20-7594-7772
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e-mail: m.dougherty@ic.ac.uk
Space Physics Lecture course
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
Editorial boards/panel membership
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Associate editor for JGR (Space Physics), December 1997 - November 2001.
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Editor of Physics Departmental Annual Review (1998/1999).
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Editor for Planetary magnetospheres session of COSPAR 2000, leading to
publication in Adv. Space Res.
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Member of PPARC Fellowship panel (2000/2001).
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Member of PPARC Rolling Grant panel to Leicester University (2001).
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Regularly referee papers for J. Geophys. Res, Geophys. Res. Lett., Planet.
Space Sci., Ann. Geophys. Adv. Space Sci.
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Referee grant and fellowship applications for NASA, PPARC, NERC
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Editor for Departmental Annual Review (1998/1999)
Meeting and session convenor
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British Council workshops at Imperial College, November 1992 and November
1993.
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European Geophysical Society (EGS), Convener of Planetary magnetosphere
sessions from 1994 – 1999.
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Local Organising Committee for COSPAR meeting in Birmingham, July 1996.
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IAGA meeting, Planetary magnetospheres, ionospheres and atmospheres session,
co-convener, 1997.
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Scientific Programme Committee for Outer Planets meeting in Boulder, Colorado,
1997.
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Convener of Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) meeting on Cassini/Huygens
mission, London, March 1998.
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Deputy organiser, Planetary Magnetospheres session, COSPAR, Warsaw, Poland,
2000.
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Scientific programme committee, Jupiter conference, Boulder, Colorado,
June 2001.
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Scientific programme committee, Conference on Jupiter and Saturn,
Lisbon, June 2002.
Space Mission Involvement
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Ulysses (NASA/ESA) - magnetometer team member since 1991, Jupiter flyby.
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Galileo (NASA) - involvement via Imperial's Co-Investigator status on magnetometer
team, Guest Investigator on NASA Jupiter System Data Analysis Program.
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Cassini Saturn Orbiter (NASA/ESA) - Acting Principal Investigator (PI)
for magnetometer instrument.
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Europa Orbiter (NASA) - submitted proposal to build magnetometer as PI.
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Bepi-Colombo mission (ESA) - part of consortium submitting proposal to
build magnetometers.
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Co-Investigator on HST observing campaign during period of Comet Shoemaker-Levy
9 collision with Jupiter (1994).
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Co-Investigator on HST observing campaign from Cassini/Galileo flyby period
at Jupiter (1999/2000).
Research Grants and contracts (over last 5 years)
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PPARC – Principal Investigator on Cassini Saturn Orbiter,
Magnetic field investigation: operations, £877, 731.
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PPARC - Research in solar system plasma physics (as co-applicant),
£899,294.
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PPARC – Physics of the Jovian magnetosphere (Advanced fellowship
as principal applicant), £187,944.
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PPARC – Short term visitors in solar and space plasma physics
(as co-applicant), £7,437.
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British Council – Collaborative observations from the Cassini
cruise science phase – travel funds, (principal applicant), £2,750.
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SRIF – Space science infrastructure support (co-applicant),
£750,000.
Recent Invited Presentations
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London Space Plasma Seminar, QMW, London, December 1995.
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European Geophysical Society meeting, The Hague, Holland, April 1996.
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Royal Astronomical Society meeting, London, March 1998.
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Western Pacific AGU meeting, Taipei, July 1998.
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European Geophysical Society meeting, The Hague, Holland, April 1999.
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Royal Astronomical Society meeting, London, March 2000.
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Space Science Department seminar at Estec, Noordwijk, May 2000.
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European Geophysical Society meeting, Nice, France, May 2000.
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Visiting lecturer Observatoire Midi-Pyrennes, Toulouse, France, September
2000.
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American Geophysical Society, Boston, May 2001.
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Jupiter meeting, Colorado, June 2001.
Recent Public Understanding of Science activities
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Public Lecture at Institute of Physics meeting, Lancaster,
November 1997.
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Seminar at Kings College London, November 1997.
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Seminar and lectures at Physics Department, University of
Natal, Durban, August 2000.
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Regularly give talks at Astronomical Society meetings, such
as Kew and Richmond, Ewell societies.
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Regularly give talks at a variety of schools in the South-East.
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Made a presentation at RAS/PPARC organised press conference
on Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collision with Jupiter, with resulting interviews
to radio, television and newspapers.
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Regularly respond to questions from journalists and do radio
and television interviews on a variety of scientific topics.
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Member of Cassini/Huygens European Public Outreach working
group.
Post Graduate Students
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Dr. Coreena Lofting, "Rotational effects on magnetohydrodynamic waves in
the Jovian magnetosphere", graduated 1997.
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Dr. Robert Wilson, "Ultra-low frequency waves in the Jovian magnetosphere",
graduated 2001.
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Dr. Stephane Espinosa, "Studies of 10 hour periodicity in Saturn's magnetosphere",
graduated 2001.
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Nicolas Andre (based at Observatoire Midi-Pyrennes, part-time at Imperial),
"Plasma transport in fast rotating magnetospheres", commenced October 2000.
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Paul Hanlon, "Physics of the Jovian magnetosphere", commenced October
2001.
Teaching/Departmental Duties
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Course associate for undergraduate Space Physics course (98/99, 99/00).
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Lecturer on post graduate Plasma Physics course (since 98/99).
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Lecturer for Space Physics UG course (since 00/01).
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Course associate for undergraduate Atmospheric Physics course (01/02).
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Responsible for Group post graduate recruitment (since 97/98).
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Member of Physics Graduate Studies Committee (since 98/99).
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Personal Tutor for undergraduate students (since 99/00).
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Second Year Academic Tutor (since 91/92).
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Supervision of Msci/3rd year projects.
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Supervision of PhD students, 2 current, 3 completed.
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Supervision/management of PDRA since 97/98.
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Regularly lecture at post-graduate summer schools.
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Internal/External PhD examiner for PhD vivas.
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Member of UCAS Admissions team (01/02).
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Member of Clerical Review Panel (since 00/01).
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Second year classworks (01/02).
Current Research Interests:
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Planetary magnetospheres, in paticular that of Jupiter and Saturn.
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Solar wind interaction with planetary bodies
Research activities:
Publications
Post Graduate Studies
Public Understanding of Science:
Michele Dougherty 24th November
2003 .