Alexander Lozinski
Radiation Belt Scientist
Biography
07/2021 – present: Radiation Belt Scientist, British Antarctic Survey
2017 – 2021: PhD – “Modelling the Exposure of Satellites in Medium Eart Orbit to Proton Belt Radiation”, British Antarctic Survey and Clare College, University of Cambridge
09/2015 – 01/2017: Graduate Engineer, then Ground Systems Engineer, Avanti Communications PLC
2014-2015: MSc Physics, Imperial College London
2011-2014: BSc Geophysics, Imperial College London
Research interests
I am primarily interested in Earth’s proton radiation belt, and the exposure of orbiting satellites to trapped proton radiation. I also have an interest in numerical modelling, and am the developer of BAS-PRO, the British Antarctic Survey proton belt model.
My interests are tied together in the Sat Risk project, where I am working on implementing a real-time forecast of proton belt flux using BAS-PRO. This will be used to calculate the solar cell degradation of satellites in real time.
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2022
Lozinski, Alexander ORCID record for Alexander Lozinski. (2022) Modelling the exposure of satellites in medium Earth orbit to proton belt radiation. University of Cambridge, PhD thesis
2021
Lozinski, Alexander R. ORCID record for Alexander R. Lozinski, Horne, Richard B. ORCID record for Richard B. Horne, Glauert, Sarah A. ORCID record for Sarah A. Glauert, Del Zanna, Giulio, Claudepierre, Seth G.. (2021) Modelling inner proton belt variability at energies 1 to 10MeV using BAS‐PRO. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126. 22 pp. 10.1029/2021JA029777
Lozinski, Alexander R. ORCID record for Alexander R. Lozinski, Horne, Richard B. ORCID record for Richard B. Horne, Glauert, Sarah A. ORCID record for Sarah A. Glauert, Del Zanna, Giulio, Albert, Jay M.. (2021) Optimization of radial diffusion coefficients for the proton radiation belt during the CRRES era. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126. 19 pp. 10.1029/2020JA028486
2019
Lozinski, Alexander R. ORCID record for Alexander R. Lozinski, Horne, Richard B. ORCID record for Richard B. Horne, Glauert, Sarah A. ORCID record for Sarah A. Glauert, Del Zanna, Giulio, Heynderickx, Daniel, Evans, Hugh D.R.. (2019) Solar Cell Degradation due to Proton Belt Enhancements During Electric Orbit Raising to GEO. Space Weather, 17. 1059-1072. 10.1029/2019SW002213
2019
Space weather causes radiation damage to satellites
News 1 July, 2019