I did a Masters degree in Natural Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge after which I was awarded a PhD in Space Plasma Physics from the University of Leicester in 2002. After graduating I was awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, USA in the Advanced Study Program where I continued my research in ionospheric and magnetospheric physics.

I returned to the UK in 2004 to work in the Earth and Ocean Sciences Dept at the University of Liverpool as a member of the GEOSPACE consortium working on the characterisation of the contamination of geomagnetic field models by electrical currents in the ionosphere and magnetosphere.

I moved to Lancaster University in 2007 to work on the Rainbow All Sky Camera auroral imaging system in Iceland and the Faeroe Islands.

I’ve been working at BAS as a radiation belt modeller since 2012 investigating the role of wave particle interactions in the acceleration of electrons in the Radiation Belts of Jupiter and Saturn.

Research interests

My primary research involves modelling of the radiation belts of Jupiter and Saturn with complementary interests in Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Space Weather.

• Woodfield, E., Glauert, S., Menietti, J., Horne, R., Kavanagh, A., & Shprits, Y. (2022). Acceleration of electrons by whistler-mode hiss waves at Saturn (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/c6202511-d70b-45ae-9b72-ff30f4888f5f

• Ross, J., & Meredith, N. (2020). Electromagnetic ion cyclotron electron diffusion coefficients calculated from CRRES data using a new approach (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/be8af49f-cdf1-443a-9c78-6a59c9d5be68

• Woodfield, E., Glauert, S., Menietti, J., Averkamp, T., Horne, R., & Shprits, Y. (2019). Rapid electron acceleration in low density regions of Saturn’s radiation belt by whistler mode chorus waves (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/ae5116a5-fc16-464c-9c26-e395f897a8e4

1. PRESCIENT

   PRESCIENT supports long-term, strategically important measurements and capabilities for the wider science community.

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2. Space Weather Observatory

   Assessing Space Weather impacts

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3. Electron Acceleration in the Radiation Belts of Earth, Jupiter & Saturn

   This project explored the radiation belts of the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn to help set new research goals for future spacecraft missions to the planets and develop computer models that will be of direct use to the space insurance, satellite construction and satellite service industries.

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5. PlanetBelt3

   PlanetBelt3 will be looking at the radiation belts of Saturn in this project, to include important newly recognised transport processes.

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1. Mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras is solved

   The 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras has been solved. For the first time, scientists have seen the entire mechanism at work – and it could be a […]

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2. A new way to create Saturn’s radiation belts

   A team of international scientists from BAS, University of Iowa and GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences has discovered a new method to explain how radiation belts are formed around […]

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