Richard Horne#
| Membership Number: | 6634 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.bas.ac.uk/profile/rh/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0412-6407 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-horne-frs-3391882/?originalSubdomain=uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Distinguished Research Scientist (Individual Merit band 1), British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
- 2014 - present Member of the Executive Team, BAS
- 2004 - 2022 Individual Merit Scientist (Merit bands 3 and 2), BAS
- 2005 - 2009 Principal Investigator, Sun Earth Connections Programme, BAS
- 2000 - 2005 Principal Investigator, MRS Programme, BAS
- 1990 - 1999 Head, Theory and Modelling Programme, BAS
- 1984 - 1990 Senior Scientific Officer, BAS
- 1981 - 1984 Higher Scientific Officer, Rutheroford Appleton Laboratory
Fields of Scholarship
- Wave propagation and space weather
- Wave-particle interactions
- Hazard risk assessments of the impact of severe space weather on the growing number of satellites in orbit
- Development of better systems to forecast radiation exposure to satellites during magnetic storms
- Transport, acceleration and loss of high energy charged particles in the external magnetic field of the Earth and planets
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society
- 2021 Fellow of Royal Society
- 2020 International Kristian Birkeland Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate of European Geophysical Union
- 2020 Appleton Prize of International Union of Radio Science
- 2020 Doctor of Science, University of Cambridge
- 2017 Fellow of International Union of Radio Science
- 2016 ESA Award, “Outstanding contribution to the CLUSTER and Double Star missions”
- 2014 EU Commission Success Story, SPACECAST Project
- 2014 Lloyds Science of Risk Prize
- 2013 Fellow, St Edmund’s College Cambridge
- 2011 Fellow of American Geophysical Union
- 2009 Honorary Professor, University of Sheffield
- 2005 NASA Group Achievement Award, for contributions to CLUSTER’s exploration of Geospace
- 2005 ESA Award, for “Outstanding contribution to CLUSTER’s exploration of Geospace”
