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Professor of Space Environment Physics, University of Reading

Mike Lockwood is a Professor of space environment physics at the University of Reading. After completing his PhD in ionospheric physics at Exeter University, UK, he studied the aurora using the EISCAT radars in northern Scandinavia and a wide variety of ESA and NASA speacecraft. He has also investigated space weather effects on humankind's operation systems and the effects of radiation on humans in space. He has determined the long-term variability of the Sun and helped define the implications for space weather and its relevance to Earth's tropospheric climate.

Experience

  • 2009–2023
    Professor, University of Reading
  • 2005–2008
    Professor, University of Southampton
  • 1981–2005
    Individual Merit Scientist, Space Science and Technology Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • 1990–2000
    Guest Lecturer, University Courses on Svalbard, Norway
  • 1984–1985
    Research Associate, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, USA
  • 1980–1981
    Higher Scientific Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farborough
  • 1978–1979
    Research Associate, Auckland University, New Zealand

Honours

2006 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society. 1990 COSPAR (ICSU Committee on Space Research) Zel'dovich Award for Commission C (Ionospheric Physics). 1990 URSI (International Union of Radio Science) Issac Koga Gold Medal. 1998 Royal Astronomical Society Chapman Medal. 2003 Institute of Physics Charles Chree (now renamed the Appleton) Award and Prize. 2012 European Geosciences Union Julius Bartels Medal. 2015 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.