
David Knudsen
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
PhD - Space Plasma Physics
Cornell University, 1990
BSc - Electrical Engineering
Iowa State University, 1985
Contact information
Location
Location
: SB605C
Research and teaching
Research areas
- Physics of the Aurora
- Space Plasma Instrumentation
- Space Plasma Physics
Project-Related Responsibilities
- Lead scientist: ESA Swarm Canadian Electric Field Instruments (2013 launch)
- PI: Canadian ePOP Suprathermal Electron Imager (2013 launch)
- Mission Scientist: GEODESIC sounding rocket mission (Feb 2000 launch)
- Co-I: Canadian OEDIPUS-C (1995), NASA Cusp (Dec 2002), NASA JOULE (Mar 2003), NASA JOULE II (2007), and JAXA S-520-23 (2007) sounding rockets