Professor Manuel Grande

Postal Address Head of Solar System Physics Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences University of Wales Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3BZ Wales UK Telephone UK: (0)1970-622624 Fax UK: (0)1970-622826 Email: m.grande@aber.ac.uk Room Number 306

Personal Profile

Head of Solar Systems Physics in Aberystwyth
Visiting Research Professor: Plantetary and Space Sciences Research Institue, Open University
Honarary Professor, Astrophysics Group, University of Warwick

Research interests

• Lunar and Martian exploration
• Planetary Magnetospheres
• Geomagnetic Storms and Substorms
• Principal Investigator of C1XS on Chandrayaan-1 and D-CIXS on SMART-1
• Co-PI of the SIXS solar monitor on the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter
• Co-I on Cassini, Huygens, Rosetta, Mars Express, Venus Express, Selene, BepiColombo, Cluster, Polar and others

Recent Lectures