CV Minna Palmroth

Title Academy research fellow

E-mail minna.palmroth@fmi.fi

Postal address PL 503, 00101 Helsinki

Street address Erik Palménin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki; huone 2B20a

Phone number +358 9 1929 4696

Fax +358 9 1929 4603

Fields of expertise

• Space plasma physics
• Energy circulation within the magnetosphere and ionosphere
• Solar wind coupling to magnetosphere and ionosphere
• Numerical modelling and model diagnostics, data analysis
• Project management

On-going scientific projects

• Project leader, Quantifying energy transfer in space plasma, European Research Council (Starting grant), 2008-2013
• Project leader, Quantifying energy transfer in space plasma, Academy of Finland, 2008-2013
• Project co-leader, European Cluster Assimilation Technology, European Union 7th Framework Programme, 2011-2013
• Project co-leader, Shocked plasmas in near-Earth space, Academy of Finland, 2011-2014
• Chair, Chair, Division of Astrophysics and space physics, Finnish Physical Society, 2007 -
• Liaison officer for education, outreach and media, Division for Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, European Geophysical Union, 2008 -

University and other degrees

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Sep 11, 2003. Major: Physics, minors in mathematics, computer sciences and geophysics. Thesis: Solar wind - magnetosphere interaction as determined by observations and a global MHD simulation

Previous professional appointments

• Post-doctoral researcher, Academy of Finland, 2005 - 2008
• Visiting scientist, Imperial college, Lontoo, UK, 2007
• Visiting scientist, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA, 2004
• Scientist,Finnish Meteorological Institute 1999 -, in Academy of Finland projects: Solar wind–magnetosphere energy and information transport, Simulations and their Applications in Space Plasmas, Mathematical Methods and Modelling

Links

• http://helios.fmi.fi/~minna/

List of publications

http://helios.fmi.fi/~minna/Publications/