Michael Hesse#
| Membership Number: | 4991 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Director of Science, NASA Ames Research Center
- 2017 - 2020 Professor of Space Physics, University of Bergen, Norway
- 2012 - 2016 Director of the Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
- 2006 - 2011 Chief, Space Weather Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
- 1999 - 2012 Director of the Community Coordinated Modeling Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
- 1993 - 2016 Senior Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
- 1991 - 1993 Principal Scientist, Hughes System Corporation, Lanham, MD,USA
- 1988 - 1991 Post-doctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA
- 1985 - 1988 Research Associate, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Magnetospheric dynamics
- Space plasma theory
- Paricle-in-cell plasma simulations
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Space weather
- Magnetic reconnection
Honours and Awards
- 2017 NASA Distinguished Service Medal
- 2016 NASA Group Achievement Award, Magnetospheric Multiscale mission
- 2010 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 2007 NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
- 2004 NASA Group Achievement Award, Community Coordinated Modeling Center
- 2002 Space Science Achievement Award, Goddard Space Flight Center
- 1998 NASA Group Achievement Award, Polar Electric Fields
- 1988 Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
