Bob Forsyth

I'm originally from the north-east of Scotland (born 1962) and spent my undergraduate and postgraduate years at the University of Aberdeen. My PhD involved study of the nightglow, very faint light emission from the upper atmosphere at night.

In 1989 I moved south to join the Space & Atmospheric Physics group at Imperial College in London, and very much outwards in research terms, joining the Ulysses magnetometer team in the year before launch. In 1996 I was appointed as a lecturer.

My research involves exploiting the magnetic field data coming from Ulysses, in conjunction with other data on the solar wind, with the aim of understanding how the Sun influences its surrounding environment, the heliosphere, which extends well out beyond the furthest planet and, of course, includes the Earth.

When I'm not in front of my computer, I like to get out walking as much as possible and have explored many of the long (and not so long) distance paths in easy reach of London. In common with many of the authors of this web site, I'm an addict of the Scottish mountains. My Munro tally was around 230 at the last count - my rate of progress slowed dramatically when I moved to London!