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2006– present
Assistant Research Physicist at UC Berkeley, working in the Space Sciences Laboratory
2004 – 2006
National
Research Council Resident Research Associate
Awards
Outstanding student paper award at the fall 2002 meeting of the American
Geophysical Union
Recipient of the 2000 Imperial College Callendar prize (for all round
excellence)
Education and Qualifications
2000 – 2003
PhD. (Space Plasma Physics), Imperial College
London, UK.
- Thesis
title ‘The Terrestrial Foreshock as Observed by the Multi-spacecraft
Cluster Mission’
- Supervisor:
Professor André Balogh.
- Summary
of Research: To
use in-situ measurements of the near Earth space environment, made by the 4
spacecraft CLUSTER mission, to (a) examine current problems in the structure
of the solar wind and its interaction with the terrestrial bow shock and to
(b) study non-linear phenomena generated by particle reflection at the bow
shock leading to the formation of the foreshock.
- Worked in the Space
and Atmospheric Research Group, part of the Physics
Department.
1996
– 2000
Master of Science (MSci Physics with a Year in Europe), 1st
Class with honours, Imperial College London, UK.
- 3rd
Year Placement: L' Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de
la ville de Paris, (ESPCI, Paris), France.
- Optional
Courses Studied: Mathematical Methods, Modeling Methods and Statistics,
Statistical Physics, Chaos Theory, Materials and Solid Mechanics, General
Relativity, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Astrophysics, Space Physics
with Advanced Study.
1989 – 1996
The King’s School, Worcester, UK.
This page was last updated on
August 4 2006.
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