Mike Lockwood


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	Shortcut to	►publications & on–line reprints

	Analysis of	►areas I have published in (as classifired by WoS, August 2023)

	Memoir	★ Advice to young scientists: 'In praise of mistakes' (2022)

	Q & A profile	►interview published in A & G (2015)

	Online talks	★ 2026 RAS President's address: Solar influences on Earth: Past, Present & Future
		★ 2026 UoR 'Masterclass' Seminar: Space Junk
		★ 2025 UoR 'Masterclass' Seminar: Great Auroral Events
		★ 2020 MIST seminar: Semi-annual and Universal Time Variations in the Magnetosphere

	Work Address 1:	🌈►Department of Meteorology ►Space and Atmospheric Electricity group (SPATE) University of Reading Earley Gate P.O. Box 243 Reading Berkshire RG6 6BB U.K.
	Telephone:	+44 (0)118 378 5572
	Fax:	+44 (0)118 378 8905
	P.A.:	+44 (0)118 378 8968
	E-mail:	m.lockwood "at" reading.ac.uk

	Work Address 2:	★RAL Space STFC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton DIDCOT Oxfordshire OX11 0QX U.K

	Also	Visiting Honorary Professor at ★Space & Atmospheric Physics Imperial College, London

	D-o-B:	★1954

	Changes in	►my lifetime
	Refereed publications	(includes 2 under review)
	★h-index	from ★Web-of-science : (from 18539 cites^†, May 2026) ^† ('all databases' search using ORCID number 0000-0002-7397-2172 with Researcher ID G-1030-2011 but without IPCC reports)
	★ h-index	from ★Google Scholar : (from 45751 cites, May 2026)
	Orcid ID	★orcid.org/0000-0002-7397-2172
	ResearcherID	G-1030-2011


	Publication	►History Graph
	Education	►Details
	Family tree	►by academic supervisor (silly but fun)
	Post-Doc	►Experience
	Service on	►Committees

		2019-2022 Editor-in-Chief ★Proceedings of the Royal Society A ►Q and A interview as new editor (2019) ► Editorial (2019)

	Learned Societies:	Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) Elected President, Royal Astronomical Society (2023) Fellow, Institute of Physics (FInstP) Chartered Physicist (CPhys) Member, American Geophysical Union Member, European Geoscience Union Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS)

	International Awards:	1990 The ★Zel'dovich Award for Commission C (Ionospheric Physics). Awarded by ★COSPAR (The Committee on Space Research, of the International Council for Science ★ICSU ). 1990 The ★Issac Koga Gold Medal. Awarded by ★URSI (The International Union of Radio Science). 1998 The ★Chapman Medal. Awarded by the ★Royal Astronomical Society, London 2003 The Charles Chree (now renamed the Appleton) Award and Prize. Awarded by the Institute of Physics, London. 2006 Elected as a Fellow of the ★Royal Society of London 2012 The ★Julius Bartels Medal. Awarded by the ★European Geosciences Union 2015 The ★Gold Medal of the ★Royal Astronomical Society

		►Publications
		►Presentations
	►A few general-interest presentations (Powerpoint or pdf files)
	►PhD thesis, Saas-Fe Book and Review Papers
	►Other
	►Miscellaneous
	★Wikipedia page