Dr. Jonathan Eastwood is a research fellow in the Blackett laboratory and a member of the space and atmospheric physics research group. He currently holds a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Advanced Fellowship, awarded in 2009. Previously, Dr. Eastwood worked at the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD.

Dr. Eastwood conducts research into the basic properties of collisionless plasmas, by analyzing satellite observations of such plasmas in space - particularly those that form the Earth's magnetosphere, the solar wind, the solar corona and Mars' mini-magnetospheres.

This research is also of practical importance, because ultimately, it helps us to understand and predict Space Weather. Space weather research is our effort to understand how the conditions in space near the Earth are affected by the Sun, and how this affects human life, technology and society.

For more detailed information about his research, please visit Dr. Eastwood's research group webpage