Professor Dr. Jeremy Bloxham

Biography

Jeremy Bloxham is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics at Harvard University. His research focuses on understanding the dynamics of planetary interiors, particularly the mechanisms by which planets generate magnetic fields. Bloxham received his BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1982 and his PhD in Geophysics from Cambridge in 1986. He joined the faculty at Harvard in 1987, following two years as a postdoctoral researcher. He chaired the Department from 2000 to 2006 and served as Dean of Science from 2006 to 2018. His significant contributions to the field have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 1994 and the Chapman Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in 2001. In 2007, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in London and became an Honorary Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 2008. Bloxham's work has historically concentrated on using changes in the Earth's magnetic field over centuries to place constraints on the dynamics of the Earth's core, and he has developed dynamically self-consistent numerical models for magnetic field generation via dynamo action within the Earth's core. His research has expanded to include planetary dynamics, inspired by extraordinary magnetic field measurements from Voyager 2 at Uranus and Neptune, and he has been a major focus on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter as a Co-Investigator and Science Team Member.

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