Margaret G. Kivelson

Margaret G. Kivelson, born in January nineteen twenty-eight, is a prominent American astrophysicist and planetary scientist, renowned for her contributions to space physics. As a distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles, she has dedicated her career to exploring the complexities of magnetospheres, particularly those of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn.

In addition to her role at UCLA, Kivelson has been a research scientist at the University of Michigan since two thousand ten. Her extensive research portfolio includes significant work on Jupiter's Galilean moons, where she has made groundbreaking discoveries that enhance our understanding of these celestial bodies.

Kivelson's expertise is exemplified by her leadership as the principal investigator for the magnetometer on the Galileo Orbiter, which collected invaluable data from Jupiter's magnetosphere over an eight-year period. She has also contributed as a co-investigator on the FGM magnetometer for the NASA-ESA Cluster mission and is actively involved in several other prestigious projects, including NASA's Themis mission and the Europa Clipper Mission.

With over three hundred fifty published research papers to her name, Kivelson is also a co-editor of the widely used textbook, 'Introduction to Space Physics.' Her ongoing participation in the Cassini magnetometer team and the European JUICE mission further solidifies her status as a leading figure in the field of space physics.