Roderick Heelis, Ph.D. School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Cecil H. and Ida Green Chair
in Systems Biology Science
and Director of the William B. Hanson
Center for Space Sciences
Dr. Heelis is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and longtime expert on the ionosphere — the portion of the Earth’s atmosphere charged by solar radiation. His research interests range from planet-star interaction to the differences among planets with magnetic fields, and more.
Heelis researches and designs instruments for space weather stations. In 2008, his team saw the successful launch of the Communication and Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) under the Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI), a two-year mission to discover how neutral gas motions and charged particle motions are related.
He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Sheffield.
News Coverage
Noted UTD Space Scientist Roderick Heelis Named Fellow of American Geophysical Union
UT Dallas Professor's Experiment Blasts into Space
Space Scientists Study Sun's Effect on Temperature in the Ionosphere
Space Storms Disrupt GPS, Satellite Radio Signals (Earth & Sky)
Project Helps Fill Out Picture of Earth's Ionosphere
Updated: July 1, 2009
