Margaret G. Kivelson

Dr. Margaret G. Kivelson, Ex Officio

Chair, Space Studies Board, National Space Academy of Sciences

Distinguished Professor of Space Physics, Emerita
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Margaret G. Kivelson is Distinguished Professor of Space Physics, Emerita, in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research professor in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Kivelson’s scientific interests are magnetospheric plasma physics of Earth, Jupiter and Saturn, interaction of flowing plasmas with planets and moons, and ultra-low frequency waves.  She is a Co-Investigator on NASA’s Themis mission, the Team Leader for the Magnetometer Facility Instrument on the Europa Clipper mission, and a team member of the magnetometer on the European JUICE mission to Jupiter. She was a member of Cassini’s magnetometer team until the mission ended in 2017.

Dr. Kivelson is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.  She is a the recipient of the Alfven Medal of the European Geophysical Union, the Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the Kuiper Prize of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, the Cassini Medal of the European Geophysical Union, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.  She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.  Dr. Kivelson has served recently on the National Academies’ 2019 Arctowski Medal Selection Committee, the Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sciences, and the Committee on NASA Science Mission Extensions.  Dr. Kivelson earned her PhD in physics from Radcliffe College.