Professor Catriona Jackman

Professor Caitriona Jackman is an Honorary Professor at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS) where she holds a Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Future Research Leaders award and heads a group researching Planetary Magnetospheres.

At the heart of her research is Space Plasma Physics in our solar system and beyond, and she uses data from orbiting spacecraft and space telescopes including NASA’s Cassini at Saturn and Juno at Jupiter, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.  Professor Jackman has a BSc in Applied Physics from the University of Limerick (2003) and a PhD in Planetary Physics from the University of Leicester (2006).  She worked in the UK for 17 years before moving to DIAS in 2019.

She has held research positions at Imperial College London and University College London, and as Associate Professorship at the University of Southampton.  She has served on the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Solar System Advisory Panel, Royal Astronomical Society Council, and currently sits on the European Space Agency Solar System and Exploration Working Group.

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