Minna Palmroth#
Membership Number: | 6334 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2022 |
Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Homepage(s): | https://blogs.helsinki.fi/palmroth/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0003-4857-1227 |
Twitter: | @MinnaPalmroth |
Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/minna-palmroth-aa1a154/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - 2025 Director, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space
- 2017 - present Professor in computational space physics, University of Helsinki
- 2013 - 2016 Research professor in space research, Finnish Meteorological Institute
- 2011 - 2016 Head of Department, Earth Observation, Finnish Meteorological Institute
- 2008 - 2013 Academy Research Fellow, Academy of Finland and Finnish Meteorological Institute
- 2005 - 2008 Academy of Finland Post-doctoral researcher, Finnish Meteorological Institute
- 2003 - 2005 Postdoctoral researcher, Finnish Meteorological Institute
- 2004 Visiting scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
- 1999 - 2003 PhD student, Finnish Meteorological Institute
Fields of Scholarship
- Space physics
- High-performance computing
- Space plasma simulations
- Solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere interactions
- Space weather
Honours and Awards
- 2022 J.V. Snellman Prize for outreach and communications, University of Helsinki
- 2021 Member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
- 2018 Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2018 Member, Finnish Academy of Technological Sciences
- 2016 Väisälä prize for scientific achievements, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2008 ERC Starting Grant