Main Research Interests

• Cometary science
• Planetary magnetospheres; interactions with rings and moons (member of Cassini CAPS and MIMI instrument teams)
• Comet- and dust-solar wind interactions
• Interaction of unmagnetized planets with the solar wind
• Heliospheric physics

Career and Positions Held

2012 - present:

Lecturer in Planetary Science,
UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

July-September 2012 :

British Science Association Media Fellow,
The Guardian.

2012 - present :

Member of Council,
Royal Astronomical Society.

2007 - 2012:

STFC Advanced Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer,
UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

2007 - 2009:

2005 - 2007:

Guest Scientist, Max-Planck-Insitut fuer Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.

2003 - 2005:

National Academies Resident Research Associate, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA.

1997 - 2003:

Postdoctoral research associate, Imperial College London.

1993 - 1997:

PPARC PhD studentship at UCL-MSSL

Current Ph.D. Students

Kim Birkett (Primary Supervisor, 2012-present)

Yudish Ramanjooloo (Primary Supervisor, 2012-present; Secondary Supervisor, 2010-2012)

Tom Nordheim (Secondary Supervisor, 2011-present)

Jamie Jasinski (Secondary Supervisor, 2011-present)

Aaron Stinson (Secondary Supervisor, 2011-present; based at Armagh Observatory)

Past Ph.D. Students

Dr Sheila Kanani (Primary Supervisor, 2007-2012)

Taught Courses

2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012: Planetary Atmospheres
(PHASM312 / 4630 / SPCEG011 / SS4), with Prof. Andrew Coates.

Contact

E-mail: ghj at mssl.ucl.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1483 204 263 (or 204 100 for switchboard)

Postal address:

This page last modified 3 May, 2013 by Geraint Jones