Matt Taylor

Space Plasma Physicist

 

Main Research Fields

My current position at ESTEC is a Heliophysics Project Scientist, where i am looking to draw synergies across directorate boundaries in the area of Heliophysics. In this role, i am also the Chair of the ESA Heliophysics Working Group, more details can be found here:

https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esa-heliophysics/terms-of-reference

I am the D/SCI Study Scientist for the Plasma Observatory M7 candidate mission. 

I am also a support scientist for the D/SCI Cluster misison.

I also support the D/EOP Swarm mission.

My main scientific interests in the part have focused on space plasmas, particularly at the Earth's magnetosphere and boundary layer dynamics, using multi-mission data sets.


Keywords

Heliophysics, Magnetosphere

Project/mission at ESA

Plasma Observatory, Cluster, Swarm, also used to be involved in LOP-Gateway, Rosetta, Double Star