Matt Taylor (scientist)
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| Born | Matthew Graham George Thaddeus Taylor 1973 (age 43–44) Manor Park, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Institutions | European Space Agency |
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| Thesis | MHD modelling of space plasmas |
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Matthew Graham George Thaddeus "Matt" Taylor (born 1973) is a British astrophysicist employed by the European Space Agency. He is best known to the public for his involvement in the landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission (European Space Agency)'s Philae lander, which was the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. He is Project Scientist of the Rosetta mission.
Taylor was born in Manor Park, London. He was born in 1973, and is the son of a bricklayer and worked alongside his father, on building sites, during his summer breaks from university.
He received a degree in physics from the University of Liverpool, as well as a Ph.D in space physics which focused on Magnetohydrodynamics modeling of astrophysical plasma in the magnetosphere from Imperial College London.
After completing his PhD, Taylor joined the Mullard Space Science Laboratory as a Cluster research fellow. This position led to his appointment as Cluster project scientist in 2005. He is an author on 70 publications, primarily on the topic of aurorae. In summer 2013, Taylor was assigned the role of Project Scientist for the Rosetta mission. Taylor's research has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Nature, the Journal of Geophysical Research,Geophysical Research Letters and the Annales Geophyisicae.
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