Curriculum Vitae Michael John Thompson Michael J. Thompson, MA, PhD, FRAS Interim President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA Contact Details Work tel: +1 303 497 1652 E-mail: [email protected] Web: https://president.ucar.edu/ Home address: 5840 Flagstaff Road, Boulder, CO 80302, USA Home tel: +1 303 443 3816 Postgraduate Employment 2010 { National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Interim UCAR President (2015 { ) NCAR Deputy Director, and Chief Operating Officer (2013 { ) NCAR Associate Director (2010 { 2013) Director of the High Altitude Observatory (2010 { 2014) NCAR Senior Scientist (2010 { ) 2004 { 2015 University of Sheffield Professor of Applied Mathematics & Solar Physics Head of School of Mathematics & Statistics (2007 { 2010) Chair of School of Mathematics & Statistics (2005 { 2007) Head of Department of Applied Mathematics (2004 { 2007) 2001 { 2004 Imperial College London Professor of Physics Deputy Head of the Space & Atmospheric Physics Group (2003 { 2004) 1990 { 2000 Queen Mary, University of London Reader in Mathematics and Astronomy (1996 { 2000) Lecturer in Astronomy (1990 { 1996) SERC Postdoctoral Fellow (1990 { 1992) 1990 Institute for Theoretical Physics, Univ. California Santa Barbara Post-doctoral researcher 1988 { 1989 High Altitude Observatory, Boulder CO, USA Visiting scientist 1987 { 1988 Institute for Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark Post-doctoral researcher 1981 { 1983 Pafec Ltd., Nottingham, U.K. Management trainee Academic qualifications PhD (1988; University of Cambridge); MA (1985; University of Cambridge); Cert. Advanced Studies in Mathematics, with distinction (1984; University of Cambridge); BA Hons (1981; University of Cambridge). Professional Training Completed the UK Leadership Foundation in Higher Education Top Management Programme (TMP) in 2009-2010. Principal Administrative Duties 2015 { Interim President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 2013 { Deputy Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research 2013 { Chief Operating Officer of the National Center for Atmospheric Research 2010 { 2014 Director of the High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research 2010 { 2013 Associate Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research 2008 { 2010 Executive Board of the Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield 2007 { 2010 Head of School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sheffield 2005 { 2007 Chair of School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sheffield 2004 { 2007 Head of Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sheffield 2004 { 2010 Member of Senate, University of Sheffield 2003 { 2004 Deputy Head of Space & Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London 1999 { 2000 Director of Postgraduate Studies, Queen Mary University of London Professional Service 2012 University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy Visiting Committee 2010 { 2013 Danish Council for Independent Research: International Review Panel 2010 { 2012 Explorer, suborbital and other platforms working group: US Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics 2009 { 2013 International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Science Committee 2008 STFC ad-hoc panel on Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (Chair) 2006 { 2010 UK Solar Theory Committee (founder member) 2004 { 2007 PPARC Solar systems grants subpanel (Chair) 2004 { 2007 PPARC Astronomy grants panel 2004 { 2010 Conference of Professors of Applied Mathematics committee 2003 { Global Oscillations Network Group scientific advisory panel 1998 { 2004 PPARC Solar-B oversight panel (Chair from 2001) 1998 { 2000 Subject reviewer in Mathematics, Quality Assurance Agency Visiting Fellowships and Professorships 2006 { c.2010 Visiting professor, Imperial College London 2003 { 2010 Affiliate scientist, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder CO, USA 2003 Visiting researcher, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France 1994 { 1995 Visiting scholar, Cambridge Society of Bombay, India Research Interests Helioseismology; internal structure and physics of the Sun; solar internal rotation and dynamics; solar activity; solar dynamo; sunspot structure and active-region evolution; solar composition; convection. Aster- oseismology; stellar evolution; astrophysical fluid dynamics. Inverse problems. My main research interests are in the structure and dynamics of the interior of the Sun and other stars, and in helio- and asteroseismology. My early work was on the effect of rotation and magnetic fields, and this continues to be a major interest. I have worked extensively on the development, application and interpretation of inverse techniques in global and local helioseismology: major applications have been to studying the hydrostatic structure of the Sun and its internal rotation. Publications Hirsch h-index of 52; 247 publications, including 3 authored/edited books; 26 papers with more than 100 citations (data updated mid 2015). Publication list attached. Professional Memberships Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (elect) Member of the American Astronomical Society Member of the American Meteorological Society Projects & Space Missions Involvement Co-investigator on HMI instrument on NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Chair of Network Activity, Helio- and Asteroseismology HELAS Network Chair of Kepler Asteroseismology Consortium activity in modelling solar-like stars (rotation, mixing and non-standard physics) Associate investigator on MDI instrument on Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Member of Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) Co-proposer/co-investigator of various space missions/instruments Principal Conferences Organised 2015 ISSI Workshop on Solar Magnetic Fields: From Measurements Towards Understanding (Convenor), Bern, Switzerland 2013 Synoptic Networks Workshop (Co-chair, SOC), Boulder, USA 2012 ISSI Workshop on Helioseismology and Solar Dynamics (Convenor), Bern, Switzerland 2009 HELAS Workshop on New Insights into the Sun (Co-chair, SOC), Ponte de Lima, Portugal 2009 HELAS Workshop on The Acoustic Solar Cycle (Co-chair, SOC), Birmingham, UK 2008 ISSI Workshop on Solar Magnetism (Convenor), Bern, Switzerland 2007 HELAS Workshop on Low-degree and Low-frequency modes (Chair, SOC), La Palma, Spain 2006 SOHO 18 / GONG 2006 / HELAS I: Beyond the Spherical Sun (Chair, SOC), Sheffield, UK 2002 Asteroseismology across the HR Diagram (Chair, SOC), Porto, Portugal 2001 New Developments in Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Co-organiser), Condom, France Postdoctoral Researchers and PhD Students Supervised K. Burke P. Gonzalez Morales D. Reese (now at University of Birmingham) S. Shelyag (now at Monash University) S. Zharkov (now at University of Hull) U. Mitra-Kraev P. Rajaguru (now at Indian Institute of Astrophysics) T. Corbard (now at Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur) I. Gonzalez Hernandez (deceased; formerly at National Solar Observatory) R. Howe B. Lapthorn S. Basu (now at Yale University) F. Pijpers M. Monteiro (now at Centre for Astrophysics, University of Porto) D. Evans Teaching I have taught a range of Applied Mathematics, Computing, Statistics and Astrophysics courses (e.g., Math- ematical & Computational Modelling, Statistical Inference, Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Cosmology) at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and have regularly received invitations to lecture at summer schools. PUBLICATIONS M. J. Thompson 1987 1. Problems in helioseismology, Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge (1987) 1988 2. Magnetic perturbations to stellar oscillation eigenfrequencies (with D. O. Gough), in Advances in Helio- and Asteroseismology, ed. J. Christensen-Dalsgaard & S. Frandsen (Reidel, Dordrecht), pp. 155 – 160 (1988) 3. On the implications of the symmetric component of the frequency splitting reported by Duvall, Har- vey and Pomerantz (with D. O. Gough), in Advances in Helio- and Asteroseismology, ed. J. Christensen-Dalsgaard & S. Frandsen (Reidel, Dordrecht), pp. 175 – 180 (1988) 4. Determination of the solar internal sound speed by means of a differential asymptotic inversion (with J. Christensen-Dalsgaard and D. O. Gough), in Seismology of the Sun & Sun-like Stars, ed. V. Domingo & E. J. Rolfe (ESA SP-286, Noordwijk, Holland), pp. 493 – 497 (1988) 5. Further progress on the helium abundance determination (with W. D¨appen and D. O. Gough), in Seismology of the Sun & Sun-like Stars, ed. V. Domingo & E. J. Rolfe (ESA SP-286, Noordwijk, Holland), pp. 505 – 510 (1988) 6. Evidence for a thin perturbative layer near the base of the solar convection zone, in Seismology of the Sun & Sun-like Stars, ed. V. Domingo & E. J. Rolfe (ESA SP-286, Noordwijk, Holland), pp. 321 – 324 (1988) 1989 7. Differential asymptotic sound-speed inversions (with J. Christensen-Dalsgaard and D. O. Gough), Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 238, 481 – 502 (1989) 1990 8. A comparison of methods for inverting helioseismic data (with J. Christensen-Dalsgaard and J. Schou), Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 242, 353 – 369 (1990) 9. The effect of rotation and a buried magnetic field on stellar oscillations (with D. O. Gough), Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 242, 25 – 55 (1990) 10. What are the observed high-frequency solar acoustic modes? (with P. Kumar, T. L. Duvall, J. W. Harvey, S. M. Jefferies, & M. A. Pomerantz), in Progress of seismology of the sun and stars, Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 367, 87 – 92, eds Osaki, Y. & Shibahashi, H., Springer, Berlin (1990) 11. A new inversion