{"id":68,"date":"2017-01-18T22:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.1.5\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2024-05-09T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:04:02","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/verscharen.com\/?page_id=68","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education
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2009-2012<\/td>PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS)<\/a> and Technical University Braunschweig (TUB)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003-2007<\/td>MSc (Diplom) in Physics, University of Bonn<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/h4>\n

Fellowships and Awards
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2023<\/td>MAPS Faculty Education Award for Individual Excellence, UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences<\/A><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2019<\/td>Fellow of the Higher Education Academy<\/A> (FHEA)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>MSSL Team Achievement Award for the successful delivery of the Solar Orbiter Solar Wind Analyser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017-2022<\/td>Ernest Rutherford Fellowship<\/A> from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>Award for the best talk by an early-career author at the 71st Annual Meeting of the German Geophysical Society (DGG)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009-2012<\/td>Fellowship and full stipend from the Max Planck Society (MPG)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>Book and membership award from the German Physical Society (DPG)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001-2003<\/td>Admission to the FFF project at the University of Bonn<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/h4>\n

Research Experience
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since 2022<\/td>Associate Professor in Space Plasma Physics at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019-2022<\/td>Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Space Plasma Physics at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017-2022<\/td>STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017-2021<\/td>Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012-2017<\/td>Research Scientist at the University of New Hampshire<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007-2009<\/td>Research Assistant at the University of Bonn<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/h4>\n

Teaching Experience
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since 2023<\/td>Chair of the Board of Examiners for the programme Space Science and Engineering at UCL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2023<\/td>Recognised Practitioner in Advising (RPA), UK Advising and Tutoring (UKAT)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>Deputy Chair of the Board of Examiners for the programme Space Science and Engineering at UCL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2020<\/td>Module lead for the Lecture \"Space Plasma and Magnetospheric Physics\" at UCL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2018<\/td>Group Project \"MSc in Space Science and Engineering\" at UCL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019-2020<\/td>Lecture \"Planetary Atmospheres\" at UCL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2018<\/td>Organisation of annual training weeks for PhD students of the London NERC DTP<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2018<\/td>Supervision of undergraduate student research projects at UCL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2017<\/td>Supervision and co-supervision of MSc student Individual Projects at UCL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018-2021<\/td>Co-supervision of PhD student at University of Delaware<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2017<\/td>Supervision and co-supervision of PhD student research projects at MSSL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2017<\/td>Personal Tutor of MSc students at UCL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>Supervision of undergraduate student research project at UNH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013-2014<\/td>Supervision of undergraduate student senior thesis at UNH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008-2009<\/td>Teaching Assistant for the recitations to the lecture \"Stars and Stellar Evolution\" at the University of Bonn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>Teaching Assistant for the physics lab course for medicine students at the University of Bonn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005-2008<\/td>Lecturer for the preparatory mathematics course for FFF physics students at the University of Bonn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/h4>\n

Engagement
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Reviewing for journals<\/td>Acta Physica Polonica A; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Astrophysics and Space Science; Atmosphere; Central European Journal of Physics; Chinese Physics Letters; Earth, Planets and Space; Entropy; Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences; Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of Computational Physics; Journal of Geophysical Research; Journal of Plasma Physics; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Nature; Nature Astronomy; Nature Communications; New Journal of Physics; Physics of Plasmas; Planetary and Space Science; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA; Science; Solar Physics; The Astronomical Journal; The Astrophysical Journal; The Astrophysical Journal Letters; The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series; The European Physical Journal Plus; Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Naturforschung A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reviewing for organisations<\/td>Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung; ARCHER2 GPU Embedded Computational Science and Engineering (eCSE) Support; Basic Plasma Science Facility; Comisi\u00f3n Nacional de Investigaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica y Tecnol\u00f3gica; Czech Science Foundation; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing (DiRAC); European Research Council (ERC); Israel Science Foundation (ISF); Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Narodowe Centrum Nauki; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO); Programma di Ricerca Spaziale di Base (PRORIS); Royal Astronomical Society; Royal Society; Royal Society Te Apārangi; Rymdstyrelsen - Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2026-2028<\/td>Member of the Solar System and Exploration Working Group (SSEWG)<\/A>, European Space Agency<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2024<\/td>Member of the Science Advisory Committee of the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024-2026<\/td>Member of the ISSI Team \"Excitation and dissipation of kinetic-scale fluctuations in space plasmas\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>Member of the ISSI Forum \"Towards building a European Heliophysics Community\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2023<\/td>Registered STEM Ambassador with STEM Learning UK<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2023<\/td>Working Group member of COST Action CA21126: Carbon molecular nanostructure in space (NanoSpace)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023-2026<\/td>Member of the DiRAC Resource Allocation Committee (RAC), UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023-2026<\/td>Member of the Solar System Advisory Panel (SSAP), UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023-2026<\/td>Member of the ISSI Science Committee<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2022<\/td>Head of Group of the Space Plasma Physics Group at MSSL<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022-2024<\/td>Member of the ISSI Team \"Ion kinetic instabilities in the solar wind in light of Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter observations\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2021<\/td>Member of the Fellowship Support Group at MSSL<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2021<\/td>Mentor for applicants for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) at UCL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021-2022<\/td>Member of the ISSI Team \"Heliospheric energy budget: from kinetic scales to global solar wind dynamics\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2020<\/td>Chair of the Solar Orbiter Science Working Groups<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2020<\/td>Member of the Departmental Teaching Committee (DTC) at MSSL<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2020<\/td>Member of the PhD student intake panel at MSSL<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2020<\/td>Departmental Digital Education Lead at MSSL<\/a> during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2020<\/td>Associate Editor for Stellar and Solar Physics, specialty section of Frontiers in Physics<\/a> and Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences<\/A><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020-2021<\/td>Member of the Online Teaching Task Force at the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences<\/a> and at MSSL<\/a> during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020-2021<\/td>Member of the ISSI Team \"Exploring The Solar Wind In Regions Closer Than Ever Observed Before\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020-2021<\/td>Topic Editor of the Frontiers Research Topic \"New Challenges in Space Plasma Physics: Open Questions and Future Mission Concepts\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2019<\/td>Member of the Student Support Working Group at the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2019<\/td>Member of the \"Computer Services Steering Committee\" at MSSL<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/h4>\n

Meeting Organisation
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2026-2027<\/td>Member of the Scientific Committee of the 7th European Conference on Plasma Diagnostics (ECPD), Space and Astrophysical Plasmas Group, Pisa, Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>Convenor of the ISSI Forum \"Exploring the Synergies between Space and Laboratory Plasma Physics\"<\/A>, ISSI, Bern, Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>Member of the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) or the \n\" target=_blank>\"In situ heliospheric science meeting (or how does 'the Sa\u00f4ne-Rh\u00f4ne' the heliosphere?)\"<\/A>, Lyon, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>Co-convener of the session \"Solar Orbiter: how does the Sun create and control the heliosphere?\", EGU General Assembly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024-2026<\/td>Member of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the conference \"Solar Wind 17\"<\/A>, Bath, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024-2025<\/td>Chair of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and member of the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) for the 2025 M-MATISSE Community Workshop<\/a>, University College London, London, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024-2025<\/td>Organiser of the RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting Space-weather science from the fifth Lagrange point<\/a>, Royal Astronomical Society, London, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>Co-convener of the session \"Solar Orbiter: connecting the Sun and the inner heliosphere\", EGU General Assembly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023-2024<\/td>Member of the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) for the IAU Symposium 390: \"A multi-point view of the Sun: advances in solar observations and in space weather understanding\", Cape Town, South Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>Convener of the session \"Solar Orbiter: Sun-Inner Heliosphere Connections\", AGU Fall Meeting
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2022-2024<\/td>Lead organiser and convener of the ISSI Workshop \"Electron-kinetic physics: the next frontier in space and astrophysical plasmas\"
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2022<\/td>Convener of the session \"Solar Orbiter: Up-Close View of the Sun and Inner Heliosphere\", AGU Fall Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>Organiser of the Royal Society Theo Murphy meeting Turbulent dissipation in space plasmas<\/a>, Eastwood Hall, Eastwood, Nottingham, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>Co-convenor of the session \"Turbulence in space plasmas: from injection to dissipation\", EGU General Assembly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>Organiser of the session \"Wave-particle Interactions in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas\", RAS National Astronomy Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>Convenor of the session \"Turbulence and Waves in Space Plasmas\" at the EGU General Assembly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Convenor of the session \"Linking the Sun to the Heliosphere - the Solar Orbiter Mission\", RAS National Astronomy Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2018<\/td>Organiser of the \"London Space Plasma Meeting\" in collaboration with Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018-2020<\/td>Organiser of the SHINE Working Group \"Ion and Electron Distributions in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Physics\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Organiser of the session \"Really, What is Turbulent Dissipation?\", SHINE Workshop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Convener of the session \"Frontiers of Solar Wind Physics: Collisions and Velocity Space\", AGU Fall Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Organiser of the session \"Dissipation in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Processes\", SHINE Workshop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Organiser of the session \"Disentangling Expansion Effects and Collisional Relaxation in the Solar Wind\", SHINE Workshop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Primary convener of the session \"Non-Maxwellian Distribution Functions in Space Plasmas\", AGU Fall Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Organiser of the session \"Kinetic Range Physics in the Solar Wind: Turbulence and Waves with Implications for the Turbulent Dissipation Challenge\", SHINE Workshop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>Organiser of the session \"What is the Role of non-Maxwellian Ion Distributions in the Solar Wind?\", SHINE Workshop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>Organiser of the session \"The Role of Electron Thermodynamics for the Multi-Scale Evolution of the Solar Wind\", SHINE Workshop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>Organiser of the session \"The Contribution of Electron Microphysics to the Evolution of the Solar Wind\", SHINE Workshop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/h4>\n

Memberships in Professional Organisations
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since 2026<\/td>Member of the Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2023<\/td>Full Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2023<\/td>Member of the European Physical Society (EPS)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2022<\/td>Member of UK Advising and Tutoring (UKAT)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2022<\/td>Member of the Institute of Physics (IoP)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2020<\/td>Member of the Space Universities Network (SUN)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2019<\/td>Member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS)<\/A><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2018<\/td>Individual Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2017<\/td>Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2013<\/td>Member of the Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (DGG)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2008<\/td>Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2008<\/td>Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2007<\/td>Member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Extraterrestrische Forschung (AEF)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
since 2001<\/td>Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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