PhD Defence: Studies of Ionospheres of Earth and Mars

Huge congratulations to our colleague and friend Dr Maxime Grandin, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at SGO yesterday. His work entitled "Multi-Instrument and Modelling Studies of the Ionospheres of Earth and Mars" was done at Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu and at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP), University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse leading to a double PhD degree in physics.

The opponents were Dr Mervin Freeman, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK, and Dr Ronan Modolo, LATMOS, University of Versailles, France. Prof Anita Aikio, University of Oulu, served as custos.