John L. Culhane#
| Membership Number: | 2101 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 Emeritus Professor of Physics, University College London
- 1993 - 2003 Head, Department of Space and Climate Physics of UCL
- 1983 - 2003 Director, Mullard Space Science Laboratory of UCL
- 1981 - 2006 Professor of Physics, University College London
- 1976 - 1981 Reader in Physics, University College London
- 1975 - 1983 Deputy Director, Mullard Space Science Laboratory of UCL
- 1970 - 1976 Lecturer in Physics, University College London (UCL)
- 1969 - 1970 Research Scientist and Member of the Research Laboratory, Lockheed Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, California
- 1967 - 1969 Lecturer in Physics, University College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Space instrumentation
- Solar physics
- X-ray astronomy
- EUV/X-ray spectroscopy
Honours and Awards
- 1970 Elected Member of the International Astronomical Union (commissions 10, 44, 48)
- 1985 Elected Fellow, Royal Society of London
- 1991 - 1994 Elected Vice-president, ESA Space Science Programme Committee
- 1991 Elected Full Member of the International Academy of Astronautics
- 1993 Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Wroclaw
- 1996Elected Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2001 Elected Member Academia Europea
- 2005 Royal Aeronautical Society, Specialist Silver Award and Geoffrey Pardoe Space Prize
- 2007 Awarded Gold Medal in Astronomy of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 2008 Elected Fellow of University College London
