Apr/2012 – present

Research Assistant
Space Weather and Atmosphere Group
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jan/2013 – present

PhD Student, Physical Sciences
Electron acceleration and loss caused by wave-particle interactions in space plasmas
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Open University, United Kingdom

Oct/2004 – Feb/2012

Student – ‘Diplom’ (German degree)
Physics and Physical Technologies
Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

Oct/2007 – Mar/2009

Student Research Assistant
Fabrication and classication of integrated-optical waveguide samples
Institute of Optical Technologies, Clausthal University of Technology

Oct/2007 – Mar/2011

Tutor
Exercise courses ‘Experimental Physics I and II’
Clausthal University of Technology

Oct/2003 – Aug/2004

Alternative civilian service (‘German Zivildienst’)
Care and education of mentally disabled children

Kersten, T., R. B. Horne, S. A. Glauert, N. P. Meredith, B. J. Fraser, and R. S. Grew (2014), Electron losses from the radiation belts caused by EMIC waves, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 119, 8820–8837, doi:10.1002/2014JA020366

Meredith, N. P., R. B. Horne, T. Kersten, B. J. Fraser, and R. S. Grew (2014), Global morphology and spectral properties of EMIC waves derived from CRRES observations, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 119, 5328–5342, doi:10.1002/2014JA020064

Horne, R. B., T. Kersten, S. A. Glauert, N. P. Meredith, D. Boscher, A. Sicard-Piet, R. M. Thorne, and W. Li (2013), A new diffusion matrix for whistler mode chorus waves, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, 6302–6318, doi:10.1002/jgra.50594

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

1. SPACESTORM

   SPACESTORM is a collaborative project to model space weather events and find ways to mitigate their effects on satellites.

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