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People > Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty > Michael W. Liemohn

Michael W. Liemohn

Portrait of Michael W Liemohn

Professor Director of the University of Michigan Space Institute

Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

1436 CSRB

Climate & Space Research Building University of Michigan 2455 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143

liemohn@umich.edu

(734) 763-6229

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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: ^top

Fall Term 2020: CLIMATE/SPACE 551, Advanced Fluid Dynamics
Winter Term 2020: SPACE/CLIMATE 405-002, Data Analysis and Visualization for Geoscientists

Research Interests: ^top

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: ^top

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.

On the Meyers-Briggs personality test, I used to be an INTJ, but now I am an ENFJ, The Protagonist

 

Professional Service: ^top

Some recent/big service roles:

  • Director, University of Michigan Space Institute, 2019 – present
    • Space Institute 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
  • NASA Jack Eddy Steering Committee, 2018 – present
    • Jack Eddy Fellowship website
  • AGU Meetings Committee, 2017 – present
    • AGU Meetings Committee website
  • AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Executive Committee, 2013 – 2019
    • AGU SPA website
  • JGR-Space Physics Editor-in-Chief, December 2013 – 2019
    • JGR-Space physics website
    • AGU Journals website
    • JGR-Space Physics blog
  • NSF GEM Strategic Planning White Paper Task Force, 2012 – 2013
    • GEM program website
  • NAS/NRC Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics, SWMI Panel and Education Working Group, 2010-2011
  • Chair, NSF GEM Steering Committee, 2009 – 2011
  • Chair, CLaSP/AOSS Alumni & Friends committee, 20013 – 2018

 

Awards: ^top

  • 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 4 in progress (Sinh Trung from Physics, Alex Shane, Brian Swiger, and Agnit Mukhopadhyay)
  • 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: ^top

As of February 2020, author or co-author of 207 peer-reviewed publications in print, press, or submitted (57 first author) and 625 scientific presentations (86 invited).

Over my 6 years as EiC of JGR Space Physics, I wrote 300 posts at my blog: JGR-Space Physics blog

Please see my CV (link above) for more information about my publications and research activities.

My ISI Web of Science ResearcherID number is H-8703-2012.

My ORCID number is 0000-0002-7039-2631.

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