Prof. Ferdinand Plaschke helds the W3 professorship for geophysics at our institute since October 1st, 2021. He will lead the working group "Space Physics and Space Sensors", which will take part in missions to explore the plasma environments of planets, moons and small bodies in the Solar System and scientifically evaluate the resulting measurement data. In his research, he focuses on waves, structures and plasma jets that arise within and near planetary magnetospheres through interaction with the solar wind.
Ferdinand Plaschke studied physics in Braunschweig and received his doctorate in 2011 with a thesis on surface waves on the outer boundary layer of the earth's magnetic field, the so-called magnetopause.
After a year and a half at the University of California Los Angeles, he worked in Graz from the beginning of 2013 to September 2021, mainly at the Institute for Space Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, but also briefly at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, as well as an external lecturer at the Technical University of Graz and at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt. Since August 1st, 2021, he has completed his habilitation in “Space Physics” at Graz University of Technology.
From Graz he accepted the call to TU Braunschweig in July 2021 and was on 24.9.2021 appointed Professor of Geophysics by the President, Prof. Angela Ittel.
We are pleased that Ferdinand landed at the IGEP and wish him an exciting and insightful research.