Michele Dougherty
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Michele Dougherty addressing the April 2015 meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Michele Karen Dougherty 1962 (age 54–55) South Africa |
| Residence | London |
| Alma mater | University of Natal (PhD) |
| Known for | Magnetometer instrumentation for the Cassini-Huygens mission |
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| Website | imperial |
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| Institutions | Imperial College London |
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Michele Karen Dougherty FRS (born 1962) is a Professor of Space Physics at Imperial College London. She is leading unmanned exploratory missions to Saturn and Jupiter and is Principal Investigator for J-MAG - a magnetometer for the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) of the European Space Agencies (ESA) due for launch June 2022.
Dougherty was educated at the University of Natal where she was awarded a PhD in 1989 for research on wave-particle interactions in dispersive and anisotropic media.
Amongst other important findings, her work led to the discovery of an atmosphere containing water and hydrocarbons around Saturn’s moon Enceladus — opening up new possibilities in the search for extraterrestrial life.
She is distinguished "for her scientific leadership of the international NASA-ESA-ASI Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons". As Principal Investigator of the operation, data collection and analysis of observations from the magnetic field instrument on board the Cassini spacecraft, she strongly contributed to improve our understanding of Saturn and the Moons of Saturn.
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