Advances in Space Research: Top Reviewers of 2014

Advances in Space Research: Top Reviewers of 2014

Advances in Space Research (ASR), as with any established scientific journal, insists on a rigorous peer-review process to maintain the integrity and quality of its published papers. An essential part of this process is the reviewer, spending his or her valuable time using unique expertise to evaluate the scientific quality of a manuscript and help the Editor make a fair and timely decision.

To further highlight the vital importance of reviewers to ASR quality, the Editors have selected their 10 top reviewers for the year 2014, taking into account criteria such as the number and the quality of the referee reports performed during this year. By publishing the names and short biographies of these selected reviewers in this issue of Space Research Today, we would like to acknowledge their valuable efforts. As an additional token of appreciation, these reviewers are offered an Amazon voucher by Elsevier, and their names will also be acknowledged on the journal homepage of ASR.

We also feel deeply obliged to all ASR reviewers who have contributed this past year who are not mentioned here, and we sincerely thank all of them for bringing the journal up to its current scientific standard.

Pascal Willis, ASR Editor-in-Chief Jos? Stoop, ASR Publisher (Elsevier)

Graham Appleby

Graham Appleby started his career in satellite geodesy as part of the team that developed the UK's satellite laser ranging observatory at the Royal Greenwich Observatory Herstmonceux in the early 1980s. Ten years later he transferred with the RGO from Herstmonceux to Cambridge and gained a PhD from Aston University on the SLR technique and orbital dynamics of high-altitude geodetic satellites. Since that time he has led the Herstmonceux geodetic observatory, now a Facility of the UK's Natural Environment Research Council, into new areas of research and development, including absolute gravimetry, GNSS, time-transfer and laser ranging at kHz rates. He is particularly interested in systematic effects at mm-levels in laser ranging and is currently exploring such effects in terms of implications for the scale of the ITRF. He is immediate past-chair of the Governing Board of the International Laser Ranging Service and is a member of the ILRS Central Bureau.

Survey Method (GSM) and its application for deriving cosmic ray density and anisotropy beyond the Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere using data of ground level network of neutron monitors. He and his Laboratory widely collaborate with scientific community from different countries: USA, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Japan, France, Israel, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria etc. And in the last years he works actively in the Space Weather Prediction Center of IZMIRAN.

Anatoly Belov

Anatoly V. Belov graduated Moscow State University in 1969 and started to work in the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN) in Cosmic Ray Department. He received his PhD degree in astrophysics from IZMIRAN, in 1980, and since 1986 he is a head of Cosmic Ray Variation Laboratory in IZMIRAN. His main research activity aimed on the study of solar-terrestrial relations and information on the space events provided by cosmic rays recorded at Earth surface. Majority of his publications involve the following topics: Forbush effects and their relation to different solar and interplanetary parameters; long-term modulation of cosmic rays; ground level solar cosmic ray enhancements (GLEs); geomagnetic effects in cosmic rays; cosmic ray anisotropy; space weather. One of his basic merit is developing version of Global

Ana G. Elias

Ana G. Elias received her Ph.D. in Physics from the National University of Tucuman, Argentina, in 1999. She works there now as a Researcher from the CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas) and as a Professor of Statistical Physics. Research interests have included: variability of the upper atmosphere, solar and geomagnetic activity, and stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO). Her research now is mainly focused in ionosphere long-term variations, and its connection to secular variations of the Earth's main magnetic field and increasing greenhouse gases concentration.

2008; Geo-Host Award 2010; the best oral report at conference of young scientists in the XVIII International Symposium "Atmospheric and Ocean Optics. Atmospheric Physics", Irkutsk, 2012; URSI Young Scientist Award 2014.

Maxim V. Klimenko

Maxim V. Klimenko, born in Kaliningrad, Russia on 4 April, 1982. He received a B.S. in Physics in 2004 and a Ph.D. Numerical Modeling in 2008 at Kaliningrad State University. Now he is a Senior Researcher at the West Department of Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (WD IZMIRAN) RAS and Associated Professor at the I. Kant Baltic Federal University. His primary research has been in the field of ionospheric electrodynamics and upper atmospheric dynamics. He studied the global ionospheric structure, its dynamics and ionospheric effects of magnetospheric substorms, storms, solar eclipses, solar flares, sudden stratospheric warming at different latitudes. He has over 37 papers in refereed journals (80% first author) and more than 35 papers in conference proceedings. He was an invited speaker in several international meetings and schools. He has a Diploma of: Yu.P. Maltsev competition for the excellent publication of the young Russian scientist in the field of magnetosphere physics (2007 ? 2008 and 2011-2012); finalist of Student paper competition at URSI General Assembly

Karel Kudela

Prof. Karel Kudela graduated from Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1969 and joined in 1971 Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Acad. Sciences (IEP SAS) in Kosice. He has been involved in research of dynamics of energetic particles in space and in variability of low energy cosmic rays (CR) as a PI, Co-PI, Co-I or member of the teams working on analysis of suprathermal particle measurements on Russian and other satellites as well as PI of neutron monitor measurements at Lomnick? st?t. Contributed to description and understanding selected questions of energetic particle dynamics in magnetosphere and heliosphere, specifically to (i) confirmation of the first

response of solar neutrons observed on Earth during solar flare on the ground in 1982 and high energy solar gamma and neutron emissions observed later on satellites; (ii) scaling of time series of low energy CR measured by neutron monitors; (iii) relations between space weather effects and low energy CRs; (iv) characteristics of middle energy particle fluxes (above solar wind, below galactic CR) within the Earth's magnetosphere and its surrounding. In 1980 ? 2011 he has been head of Department of Space Physics of IEP SAS. He is now dedicated mainly to studies of quasi-periodic variations of CR; of dynamics of suprathermal particles within magnetosphere of Earth and in near interplanetary space, as well as of relations between CR and space weather. Chair of NC COSPAR in Slovakia, member of IAA and of the Learned Society of SAS.

Physical

Research

Laboratory,

Ahmedabad.

He has been deeply involved in rocket-

borne measurements of ion and neutral

composition in addition to radio probing of

the upper atmosphere and Optical

Aeronomy.

He pioneered the development of Day-

glow photometer in addition to indigenous

Development of scanning and imaging

spectrometers.

As the director of the Space Physics

Laboratory, in VSSC, Trivandrum, India,

from 1998-2010, he initiated the

ionospheric tomography studies from

Indian longitudes and radio beacon and

optical experiments for small satellites. He

has also been the principal scientist for the

CHACE payload on the Moon Impact

probe of Chandrayaan-1, and one of the

Co-investigators of the SARA experiment

on Chandrayaan-1. His current research

interests are the forecasting of L-band

scintillations in the equatorial region.

He had been a member of the COSPAR

bureau and

regional editor of the Journal of

Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics.

He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of

Sciences and of the National Academy of

Sciences.

R. Sridharan

Professor Rajagopal Sridharan graduated from Madurai University, in southern India in 1971 and immediately joined the

2004 he was visiting professor at the Solar Terrestrial Environment Laboratory at the University of Nagoya, Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan. His latest research is on reconstruction of the historical sunspot number series. He is team leader of an International Teams in Space Science (ISSI) workshop on `Longterm reconstruction of Solar and Solar Wind Parameters' and he is a member of the Organizing Committee of the International Astronomical Union Working Group `Coordination of synoptic observations of the Sun'.

Leif Svalgaard

Leif Svalgaard is a senior research physicist at the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, California, USA. While completing his geophysics studies at the University of Copenhagen, he discovered the influence of the interplanetary magnetic field polarity on the geomagnetic field in the polar regions (the SvalgaardMansurov effect) providing convincing evidence that the Earth's magnetosphere was permanently `open' to the solar wind. In 1972 he was invited to join the Institute for Plasma Physics at Stanford University. At Stanford he helped construct the Wilcox Solar Observatory to measure the sun's large-scale magnetic field. These measurements form the basis for the successful prediction of solar activity cycles from cycle 21 through to the present cycle 24. Svalgaard was a member of the NOAA/NASA expert panel for prediction of cycle 24 and with colleagues in 2004 predicted that cycle 24 would be the smallest in the past 100 years. Svalgaard developed new geomagnetic indices allowing determination of solar wind magnetic field strength and solar wind speed back to the 1830s, establishing a firm climatology for space weather. In

Pieter Visser

Pieter Visser is chair holder and head of the section Astrodynamics and Space missions at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. His primary fields of expertise are precise orbit determination of satellites and space geodesy. After receiving his PhD degree in 1992 in Delft, he spent one year as exchange visitor at the Center for Space Research of the

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