Jeremy Bloxham
Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics
My research is focused on understanding the dynamics of planetary interiors, especially the mechanism by which planets generate magnetic fields.
Jeremy Bloxham received his BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1982, and his PhD in Geophysics (also from Cambridge) in 1986. He joined the faculty at Harvard in 1987, after two years as a postdoc at Harvard. He chaired the Department from 2000 to 2006 and served as Dean of Science from 2006 to 2018. He received the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 1994 and the Chapman Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2007 and an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge in 2008.
Jeremy Bloxham’s work initially focused on using changes in Earth’s magnetic field over the last few centuries to place constraints on the dynamics of Earth’s core. Later, his group developed one of the first dynamically self-consistent numerical models of magnetic field generation by dynamo action in Earth’s core. Later, inspired by the extraordinary magnetic field measurements by Voyager 2 from Uranus and Neptune, his work moved in a planetary direction. Since then he has published papers on each planet, with the exception of Venus. For the last twenty years, his major focus has been NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter, for which he is a Co-Investigator and Science Team Member.
Contact
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