Margaret kivelson biography

Education

• A.B, A.M., Ph.D., Radcliffe College, Harvard University

Professional Service

Kivelson has been  a Harvard Overseer and a Councillor of the National Academy of Sciences. She has served on numerous advisory committees including the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council and on scientific Visiting Committees at Harvard, various campuses of the University of California and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is serving on. the Steering Committee for the Decadal Survey () of Planetary Sciences. She lectures on space research to K students and other general audiences.  She has been active in efforts to identify the barriers faced by women as students, faculty and practitioners of the physical sciences and to improve the environment in which they function.

Research Interests

Theory and data analysis of fields and particles in the solar system: properties of the internal magnetic fields of moons and planets, investigation and interpretation of fundamental magnetohydrodynamic processes in planetary magnetospheres and in the solar wind.

Professor Kivelson’s research investigations are in the areas of solar terrestrial physics and planetary science with a focus on the particles and magnetic fields of interplanetary space and the wave excitations that couple them.  Her interests extend from Earth to Jupiter, Saturn and Jupiter’s Galilean moons.  The Web of Science shows more than citations to her research papers.

Among her most heavily cited papers are a paper announcing the discovery of cavity mode oscillations in the magnetosphere (“Global compressional oscillations of the terrestrial magnetosphere – The evidence and a model,” J. , ,   citations) and papers with D. J. Southwood developing the theory (“Resonant ULF waves: A new interpretation,”  Geophys. Res. Lett., , citations; “Coupling of global magnetospheric MHD eigenmodes to field line

Margaret Galland Kivelson (born October 21, ) is an American space physicist, planetary scientist, and distinguished professor emerita of space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. From to the present, concurrent with her appointment at UCLA, Kivelson has been a research scientist and scholar at the University of Michigan. Her primary research interests include the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Recent research has also focused on Jupiter's Galilean moons. She was the principal investigator for the magnetometer on the Galileo Orbiter that acquired data in Jupiter's magnetosphere for eight years and a co-investigator on the FGM (magnetometer) of the earth-orbiting NASA-ESA Cluster mission. She is actively involved as a co-investigator on NASA's Themis mission, the magnetometer team leader for NASA's Europa Clipper Mission, as a member of the Cassini magnetometer team, and as a participant in the magnetometer team for the European JUICE mission to Jupiter. Kivelson has published over research papers and is co-editor of a widely used textbook on space physics (Introduction to Space Physics).

Early life and education

Kivelson was born in New York City on October 21, Her father was a medical doctor and her mother had an undergraduate degree in physics. Kivelson knew in high school that she wanted to pursue a career in science, but was unsure whether she would be successful with the career. Her uncle advised her to become a dietitian knowing that pursuing a physical science career as a woman would be hard, but she ignored this advice and began to study physics. Kivelson was accepted into Radcliffe College, Harvard's women's college in , obtained her A.B. degree from Radcliffe in , completed her master's degree in , and was awarded her Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in

Career

Kivelson completed her PhD thesis "Bremsstrahlung of High Energy Electrons' in Her thesis provided an expression for the

Chair, Space Studies Board, National Space Academy of Sciences

Distinguished Professor of Space Physics, Emerita
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Margaret G. Kivelson is Distinguished Professor of Space Physics, Emerita, in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research professor in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Kivelson’s scientific interests are magnetospheric plasma physics of Earth, Jupiter and Saturn, interaction of flowing plasmas with planets and moons, and ultra-low frequency waves.  She is a Co-Investigator on NASA’s Themis mission, the Team Leader for the Magnetometer Facility Instrument on the Europa Clipper mission, and a team member of the magnetometer on the European JUICE mission to Jupiter. She was a member of Cassini’s magnetometer team until the mission ended in

Dr. Kivelson is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.  She is a the recipient of the Alfven Medal of the European Geophysical Union, the Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the Kuiper Prize of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, the Cassini Medal of the European Geophysical Union, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.  She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.  Dr. Kivelson has served recently on the National Academies’ Arctowski Medal Selection Committee, the Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sciences, and the Committee on NASA Science Mission Extensions.  Dr. Kivelson earned h

American geophysicist, planetary scientist (born )

Margaret Galland Kivelson (born October 21, ) is an American space physicist, planetary scientist, and distinguished professor emerita of space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. From to the present, concurrent with her appointment at UCLA, Kivelson has been a research scientist and scholar at the University of Michigan. Her primary research interests include the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Recent research has also focused on Jupiter's Galilean moons. She was the principal investigator for the magnetometer on the Galileo Orbiter that acquired data in Jupiter's magnetosphere for eight years and a co-investigator on the FGM (magnetometer) of the earth-orbiting NASA-ESA Cluster mission. She is actively involved as a co-investigator on NASA's Themis mission, the magnetometer team leader for NASA's Europa Clipper Mission, as a member of the Cassini magnetometer team, and as a participant in the magnetometer team for the European JUICE mission to Jupiter. Kivelson has published over research papers and is co-editor of a widely used textbook on space physics (Introduction to Space Physics).

Early life and education

Kivelson was born in New York City on October 21, Her father was a medical doctor and her mother had an undergraduate degree in physics. Kivelson knew in high school that she wanted to pursue a career in science, but was unsure whether she would be successful with the career. Her uncle advised her to become a dietitian knowing that pursuing a physical science career as a woman would be hard, but she ignored this advice and began to study physics. Kivelson was accepted into Radcliffe College, Harvard's women's college in , obtained her A.B. degree from Radcliffe in , completed her master's degree in , and was awarded her Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in

Career

Kivelson completed her Ph