Group Research Interests

Professor Alan Johnstone sadly died on 28 May 1999.

Head of Group, Reader in Physics and Royal Society Research Fellow

Dr Andrew Coates (ajc@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Planetary Magnetospheres
• Comet - solar wind interaction
• Space plasma instrumentation
• Lead Co-I Cassini CAPS-ELS, Co-I Cluster PEACE, Co-I Mars 96 Fonema

Lecturer

Dr Andrew Fazakerley (anf@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Jupiter's Magnetosphere
• Earth's Magnetosheath
• Cluster Planning and Preparation for PEACE
• PI Cluster II PEACE

Research Assistants

Dr Nigel Meredith (npm@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• CRRES data analysis
• Wave-Particle Interactions

Dr Ian Krauklis (ick@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Comet Halley - Solar wind interaction
• Polar data analysis: cusp studies

Dr Nick Flowers (njf@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Particle drift tracing in the earths magnetosphere
• Substorms

Dr Sarah Szita (ss@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Cluster science preparations
• ESA Trend III Project - Trapped Radiation Environment Development
• Outer radiation belt dynamics
• Meteosat SEM II time-series analysis

Dr Paul Carter (pjc@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Cluster II - PEACE project manager

Dr Adrian James (amj@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Cluster II calibration
• Plasma detection techniques
• Solar Wind interactions with Mars
• Mars 96 - FONEMA Project Manager

Dr Dave Linder (drl@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Cassini Project Manager

Dr David Walton (dmw@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• MCPs and their application to Plasma detection
• Computer automation of calibration hardware
• Innovative analyser design
• Polar - TIMAS Project Manager

Gillian Watson (gw1@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Software team

Mark Birdseye (mab@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Software team

PhD Students

Stephen Topliss (smt@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Earth's magnetospheric cusp

Roger Iles (rhi@ojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Radiation belt dynamics

Alexi Glover (ahg@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Radiation belts
• Solar connection

Gary Abel (gaa@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Field aligned electrons (CRRES)

George Papatheodorou (gp@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• STRV Cold Ion Detector Project Manager