CV for Sheila Kirkwood Version 20 February 2008
full name: Prof. Sheila Catherine Kirkwood
address: Atmospheric
Physics Programme, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Box
812, S-98128 Kiruna, SWEDEN
telephone: fax:
email: Sheila.Kirkwood@irf.se www: http://www.irf.se//program/afp/
Abeyhill, Leith Academy and James Gillespies High schools, Edinburgh
1974 BSc
(hons) Geophysics, Edinburgh University
1978 PhD
in geophysics (seismology), Edinburgh University
Title Õ Seismic surface waves and anisotropic alignments in the oceanic
upper mantleÕ
1990 PhD
in Space Physics, UmeŒ University : Title Õ
Electrodynamics of the auroral E regionÕ
1991 Reader
(docent) in space physics (UmeΠUniversity)
1998 - Professor
of Atmospheric Physics, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna
assistant lecturer in Physics, Ahmadu Bello
University, Nigeria
part-time
physics lecturer at Napier Technical College, Edinburgh
research
scientist in geophysics, Edinburgh University, Scotland
research
scientist in ionospheric physics Lancaster University, England
staff
scientist at EISCAT radar facility, Tromsš, Norway
NFR senior research fellow at IRF Kiruna
('sŠrskildforskare')
1987-present staff scientist at Swedish Institute of Space Physics
(IRF), Kiruna
1996-
head of the Atmospheric Physics Programme at IRF
1998 - Professor
of Atmospheric Physics
2001- head
of the Geophysical Observatory at IRF
Recent
External Appointments
member of Swedish IGBP/WCRP committee (KVA)
associate editor J. Atmos.
Sol. Terr. Phys.
associate
editor J. Geophys. Res.
2001 - member
of Swedish Space Board reference group for Atmospheric Research
2003 chairman
of the board of Kiruna Science Center (Laboteket)
member
of the board of WIPS (Women in Physics in Sweden)
2004 - member
of Swedish IGBP/WCRP committee (KVA)
2008-
Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Geosciences
(ledamot,
Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, klass V, Geovetenskaper)
Other
Member of Swedish Antarctic expeditions
SWEDARP2003 , SWEDARP2007/08