Employment

01/2010 - present: Research Fellow, Imperial College London, UK

• STFC Advanced Fellowship (2009 application round)
• Resident in the Space and Atmospheric Research Group in the Blackett Laboratory

01/2006 - 01/2010: Assistant Research Physicist, UC Berkeley

• Academic research appointment in the Space Sciences Laboratory (Space Physics Research Group)
• Exceptional Principal Investigator Status

01/2004 - 12/2005: Resident Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA

• Postdoctoral fellowship competitively awarded by the National Academies of Science/ National Research Council
• Resident in the Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics, Advisor: Dr. David Sibeck

10/2003- 12/2003: Research Associate, Imperial College London, UK

Education  

10/2000 - 09/2003: PhD. (Physics), Imperial College London, UK (Space and Atmospheric Group, Physics Department)

• Thesis title 'The Terrestrial Foreshock as Observed by the Multi-spacecraft Cluster Mission', Supervisor: Professor André Balogh

09/1996 - 07/2000: 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

Service to the Community

Professional Affiliations:

• American Geophysical Union (Member)
• Institute of Physics (Member)
• Royal Astronomical Society (Fellow)

I have reviewed articles submitted to: Nature Physics, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Annales Geophysicae, Advances in Space Research and Space Science Reviews.

Conferences and Meetings:

• 03/2009: Member of the Organizing Committee, THEMIS workshop at LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• 12/2008: Session Convener, Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Session SM03 (Processing of solar wind from L1 to the magnetopause)
• 06/2008: Session Convener, GEM meeting, Zermatt, UT
• 12/2007: Session Chairman, Fall meeting of the Americal Geophysical Union, Session SM11 (Multipoint Investigations of Magnetospheric Processes)
• 09/2007: Member of the Organizing Committee, STAMMS-2 Conference, Orleans, France

Awards

03/2009: 2008 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for JGR-Space Physics

12/2008: Included in the 2009 edition of 'Who's Who in America'

03/2008: Invited to contribute to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society's Triennial Issue 'Visions of the Future' in Astronomy

09/2005: Outstanding contribution to the ESA Cluster mission award

05/2003: Awarded Resident Research Associateship by the National Academies/ National Research Council

12/2002: Outstanding student paper award at the fall 2002 meeting of the American Geophysical Union

10/2000: Recipient of the 2000 Imperial College Callendar prize (for all round excellence)