Anders Eriksson, PhD, scientist

Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Box 537, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
Visiting address: Room 14142, Ångström Laboratory, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, Uppsala
tel: +46184715945, fax: +46184715905, home: +4618513043, mob. +46701713029
http://space.irfu.se/aie, Anders.Eriksson@irfu.se
Member of Space Plasma Physics research programme

• This page:
• Science projects
• Teaching
• Outreach
  
• Publications

Science projects

• Cluster. Much of what I do is related to our Electric Fields and Waves instrument (EFW) on ESA's four Cluster satellites.
  
• With PhD student Erik Engwall, I work on cold plasma and electric field measurements.
• Every week, I plan the operations of the EFW instrument on Cluster.
• With Yuri Khotyaintsev and Per-Arne Lindqvist, I work on the EFW part of the Cluster Active Archive
  
• With Reine Gill and the WEC data working group, I work on the Isdat data access system
• Rosetta. This is ESA's comet hunter, launched in 2004 for arrival at comet Churyomov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
  
• Principal Investigator for LAP, the Rosetta Langmuir probe instrument.
• Operations and archiving issues with Reine Gill.
• Mars flyby data analysis with Niklas Edberg (PhD student at the University of Leicester)
  
• With project student Jonny Jansson, I work on obtaining useful density estimates also in tenuous plasmas.
  
• Comet ion tail encounters (originally a student project with Sofie Spjuth).
• Cassini. Our Langmuir probe returns great data from Saturn and Titan.
• As yet, I have mostly been involved in data interpretation issues.
• Freja, Viking and Astrid-2. The data from our previous instruments are still very useful.
• Investigations of lower hybrid cavities.
  
• Upcoming hardware projects:
  
• Swarm. We develop a Langmuir probe system for each of ESAs three Swarm spacecraft, to be launched in 2010. With Reine Gill and others, I work on instrument design, performance and data analysis issues.
• MMS (Magnetospheric Multi-Scale Mission), a NASA mission of four spacecraft for which we and the Space Physics group at KTH provide an electric field instrument.
  
• Development of miniaturized space instrumentation.
  

Teaching at Uppsala university

• Space Physics I (Rymdfysik I, 3 p), course start in January
• Compendium "Waves in Space Plasmas"
• Litterature course (autumn 2004)
  
• Student supervision
• Supervised theses
  
• Undergraduate student projects (Examensarbeten)
• Guide to writing student project reports

Outreach

• I answer questions on "rymdforskning" (space research-- a broad topic!) on Rymdforums frågelåda (in Swedish) since 2006
  
• Other recent (2008) outreach activities:
• "Levande frågelåda" at Uppsala University for Malmaskolan's 6th grade (12 Feb 2008)
  

Publications

• Publications list
• Supervised theses
  

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