Dr. Michelle Thomsen

Dr. Thomsen received a PhD in Physics in 1977 from the University of Iowa. She was a Visiting Scientist at Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie before she joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1981. She was the Space Physics Team Leader of the LANL Space and Atmospheric Sciences Group and Director of the LANL Center for Space Science and Exploration and NASA Program Manager. She has been Associate Editor of Geophysical Research Letters and a member of the Editorial Board of Space Science Reviews. She has served in numerous capacities for the American Geophysical Union. She has been a member and Chair of numerous NASA committees, including chairing the Sun-Earth Connections Advisory Subcommittee and Earth-Sun Systems Subcommittee and being a member of the Heliophysics Advisory Subcommittee. Dr. Thomsen was Chair of the Panel on Solar-Wind/Magnetospheric Interactions, Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey Committee, National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board, 2011-2012. She joined the permanent science staff of PSI in 2013.