Michael W. Liemohn

Office:

1436 SRB

Phone:

(734) 763-6229

Fax:

(734) 647-3083

Email:

liemohn@umich.edu

[ Link to website ]

Education:

Ph.D., M.S., Atmospheric and Space Science, University of Michigan, 1997

B.S., Physics and Math, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1992

Research:

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

Personal Introduction

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 both Earth and Mars.

Specializations and Research Interests

• 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

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

• PhD committees chaired or co-chaired:  4 successfully defended (Xiaohua Fang, Jichun Zhang, Xia Cai, and Raluca Ilie) and 4 in progress (Shannon Curry, Roxanne Katus, Blake Johnson, and Shaosui Xu)
• Awarded National Research Council Resident Research Associateship at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

• Awarded NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship
• Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union
• Refereed papers for leading peer-reviewed journals in space science and proposals for many agencies

Professional Service

• NSF GEM Strategic Planning White Paper Task Force, 2012 - 2013
• NAS/NRC Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics, SWMI Panel and Education Working Group, 2010-2011
• Chair, NSF GEM Steering Committee, 2009 - 2011
• NASA Living With a Star TR&T Steering Committee, 2007 - 2009
• Chair, NASA Geospace Management and Operations Working Group (G-MOWG), 2005 - 2007
• Research Area Coordinator, NSF GEM Program, Inner magnetoshpere/Storms Campaign, 2003 - 2009
• Chair, AOSS Graduate Program committee, 2009 - present
• Chair, Graduate student recruitment committee, AOSS Department, 2006 - present

Publications

As of February 2013, author or co-author of 131 peer-reviewed publications in print, press, or submitted (45 first author) and 398 scientific presentations (69 invited).

Please see my CV (link above) or my detailed work website (also a link above) for more information about my publications and research activities.

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