Former Group Members



Geraint Jones
(15/05/2005 - 16/03/2007)


Currently at MSSL

  • Saturn's magnetosphere
  • Comet - solar wind interactions
  • ASPERA-3 (Mars Express) and ASPERA-4 (Venus Express) data

E-mail ghj@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)1483 204 263 (direct) 
Tel +44 (0)1483 204 100 (switchboard) 
Tel +44 (0)1483 278 312 (fax) 
Description of work at MPS
  • Cassini MIMI/LEMMS
  • Magnetosphere of Saturn and its interactions with the planet's moons

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  • 3D-structure of the solar atmosphere
  • Coupling photosphere - chromosphere
  • Determination of photospheric and chromospheric magnetic fields
  • Stokes polarimetry
  • Zeeman diagnostics
  • Hanle diagnostics
  • Inversion techniques
  • Planetary magnetospheres (Cassini-MIMI, Galileo-EPD)

E-mail lagg@mps.mpg.de
Tel +49 (0)5556 979 465 (direct) 
Tel +49 (0)5556 979 6465 (fax) 
Description of work at MPS
  • Planetary Plasmas
  • Solar Physics

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Cornelia Martinecz
(01/01/2006 - 31/12/2008)


Currently at the University of Bremen
(Institut für Umweltphysik/Fernerkundung)

  • Remote sensing of aerosols, clouds and trace gaces using synergy of AATSR, MERIS and SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT

Description of work at MPS
  • Venus Express (ASPERA-4)
  • Solar wind - atmosphere interaction at Venus
  • Escape processes
  • Plasma and neutral gas enviroment in the near-Venus space
  • Pickup ions at Venus

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Jens Kleimann
(xx - 2007)


Currently at Auroral Observatory, University of Tromsø

E-mail Jens.Kleimann@uit.no
Tel +47 (0) 776 45159 (direct) 
Tel +47 (0) 776 45580 (fax) 
Description of work at MPS
  • MHD simulations of Solar Wind flow
  • MHD simulations of Solar Wind/Magnetosphere interaction of Mars and Titan

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Aikaterini Radioti
(01/2003 - 08/2006)


Currently at the Laboratoire de Physique Atmospherique et Planetaire

  • Study of the diffuse aurora emissions at Jupiter and Saturn
  • Their precipitation mechanisms based on images analyses from the HST and energetic particle data from Galileo and Cassini spacecraft

E-mail a.radioti@ulg.ac.be
Tel +32 43669772 
Description of work at MPS
  • Composition of Jovian magnetosphere
  • Ion sources and sinks
  • Ion acceleration processes and transport mechanisms

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Ana Teresa Tomás
(02/2002 - 12/2005)


Currently at GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

  • Observations of ionospheric and thermospheric modifications during solar eclipses
  • Impact on the geomagnetic field

E-mail tomas@gfz-potsdam.de
Description of work at MPS
  • Galileo/EPD
  • Jovian Magnetosphere
  • Energetic Particle characteristics and their relation to auroral emissions

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Luciano Rodriguez
(04/2002 - 10/2005)


Currently at the Royal Observatory of Belgium

  • Analysis of in-situ solar wind data
  • Study of CMEs/ICMEs
  • Preparation of STEREO visualisation tools

E-mail rodriguez@oma.be
Tel +32 2 373 0327
Description of work at MPS
  • Ulysses/EPAC+SWICS
  • Plasma, magnetic field and energetic particles in Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs)

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Jiufu Lim
(02/2004-11/2004)


E-mail jiufu@hotmail.com
Description of work at MPS
  • Cassini/MIMI, Kronian Magnetosphere

 
 
 
Konrad Sauer
(Staff member)


E-mail sauer@mps.mpg.de Description of work at MPS
  • Comparative Magnetospheres
  • Solar wind induced escape processes at Mars
  • Nonlinear coherent structures in space plasmas

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