About this site

ork - what I actually do

Access to my Curriculum Vitae, which also contains a short publication list.

Since 1999 I've been employed at the Danish National Space Center. First in the communication and public outreach group, and later as a Ph.D. stipendiary in the Solar System Physics Group. Here I've worked with data from the Danish Ørsted Satellite, which measures the Earth's magnetic field. This satellite was launched, as the first Danish satellite ever, on February 23, 1999 from Vandenberg Airforce Base in California.

People in the Solar System Physics Group cover a broad spectrum of scientific topics, from plasma physics to the study of the Earth's interior. My work so far has been to study the interaction between the Solar Wind and the Earth's magnetic field.

I submitted my Ph.D. dissertation for assessment to the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen primo October 2005. It was successfully defended January 18, 2006. Opponents were: Anja Andersen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK; Hermann Lühr, GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, DE, Göran Marklund, Stockholm University, SE. The thesis is available for download, size approx. 113 MB.

Title: Electric Currents in the Polar Magnetosphere

Download thesis.

While doing science is challenging, my strengths and enthusiasm really lie more in working for or with science. Either in the function of channeling science out to the public, i.e. a communication and outreach position, or to help establish environments that may induce creativity, make the work prosper, and people thrive, i.e. an organizing or project managing position.

Read more about the Small Satellite Programme and the Ørsted satellite.

And there is a lot of information - in Danish - on the popular science site RUMMET.DK, to which I developed two extensive themes about GPS and tele communication, respectively.

The Danish Meteorological Institute has also plays a big part in the Ørsted Project. Read here more about their solar-terrestrial physics research.

Relevant links include:

World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Copenhagen
High Altitude Observatory, a division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which is managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
National Geophysical Data Center, Solar-Terrestrial Physics program
SDAC - Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
PIXIE - Polar Ionosphere X-ray Imaging Experiment
The Geomagnetic Field - Frequently Asked Questions
Basics about exploring the Aurora

Write me at ams@gfy.ku.dk