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Michael W. Liemohn

Michael W. Liemohn

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Contact

liemohn@umich.edu(734) 763-6229

Location

1420 Climate & Space Research Building 2455 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143

Additional Title(s)

  • Director, University of Michigan Space Institute

Primary Website

  • University of Michigan Space Institute

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  • Curriculum vitae

  • Education
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  • Biography
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Education

  • Ph.D., M.S., Atmospheric and Space Science, University of Michigan, 1997
  • B.S., Physics and Math, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1992

Teaching

  • Fall Term 2021: CLIMATE/SPACE 551, Advanced Fluid Dynamics
  • Winter Term 2021: SPACE/CLIMATE 423, Data Analysis and Visualization for Geoscientists

Professional Service

Some recent/big service roles:

  • Director, University of Michigan Space Institute, 2019 – present
    • University of Michigan Space Institute website
  • Co-Chair, AGU Partnership Task Force, 2020 – present
    • AGU website
  • U-M ADVANCE office STRIDE committee, 2019 – present
    • ADVANCE office website
    • STRIDE committee website
  • NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee, Chair (2018-present; member since 2014)
    • HPAC website
  • NASA Science Committee, member, 2018 – present
    • Science committee website
  • AGU Meetings Committee, 2017 – present
    • AGU Meetings Committee website
  • AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Executive Committee, 2013 – 2019
    • AGU SPA website
  • Editor-in-Chief, JGR-Space Physics, December 2013 – December 2019 (6 years)
    • JGR-Space physics website
    • AGU Journals website
    • JGR-Space Physics blog
  • Chair, NSF GEM Steering Committee, 2009 – 2011
    • GEM program website

Research Interests

Plasma transport in the ionosphere and magnetosphere of the Earth and other solar system bodies.

  • Energetic particle transport in the Earth’s inner magnetosphere
  • Electron and ion transport in the Mars space environment
  • Kinetic theory and modeling
  • Interactions between hot and cold plasma components
  • Plasmaspheric dynamics and modeling
  • Ring current dynamics and modeling
  • Global magnetospheric dynamics and modeling
  • Mars pick-up ion sources, motion, and fate
  • Solar wind and photoelectrons in the strong crustal field region of Mars
  • Plasma wave excitation and wave-particle interactions
  • Giant planet plasma dynamics
  • Solar wind electron physics

Biography

  • I had a postdoctoral position at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center before returning to the University of Michigan as an Assistant Research Scientist in late 1998. I then became tenure-track faculty in 2006.
  • PhD committees chaired or co-chaired:  11 successfully defended (Xiaohua Fang, Jichun Zhang, Xia Cai, Raluca Ilie, Shannon Curry, Roxanne Katus, Shaosui Xu, Lois Smith, Blake Johnson, Abigail Azari, Alicia Petersen) and 6 in progress (Sinh Trung from Physics, Alex Shane, Brian Swiger, Agnit Mukhopadhyay, Kaitlin Doublestein, and Erika Hathaway)
  • Prospective PhD students: I typically have 3 or 4 PhD students at any one time, which means that I take a new grad student most years.  My current projects span global magnetospheric magnetospheric dynamics, energetic particle transport, and MI-coupling for the space environments of not only Earth but also other planets.
  • Prospective undergrad researchers: I typically have 1 or 2 undergrad students working on directed research projects, via SPACE 499. After a term or two, if the working relationship is mutually agreeable, then I will sometimes continue supporting an undergrad researcher as an hourly employee.

Awards

  • U-M College of Engineer Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award, 2019
  • U-M College of Engineering Monroe-Brown Foundation Education Excellence Award, 2018
  • Outstanding Research Scientist Award, University of Michigan, 2002
  • Refereed papers for leading peer-reviewed journals in space science and proposals for many agencies

Publications

  • As of October 2021, author or co-author of 223 peer-reviewed publications in print, press, or submitted (60 first author) and 666 scientific presentations (87 invited).
    • Please see my CV (link above) for more information about my publications and research activities.
  • Over my 6 years as EiC of JGR Space Physics, I wrote 300 posts at my blog: JGR-Space Physics blog
  • My ISI Web of Science ResearcherID number is H-8703-2012.
  • My ORCID number is 0000-0002-7039-2631.


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