Michele Dougherty

Michele Dougherty

Michele Karen Dougherty (born 1962) is a British scientist. She is professor of space physics at Imperial College London and the sixteenth Astronomer Royal. She is leading uncrewed exploratory missions to Saturn and Jupiter, and is principal investigator for J-MAG – a magnetometer aboard the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. She has been elected to serve as President of the Institute of Physics from October 2025 and was appointed to Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council in September 2024. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Michele Dougherty is the 854th most popular physicist, the 460th most popular biography from South Africa and the 5th most popular South African Physicist.

Michele Dougherty is a British space scientist known for her work in planetary science, particularly her research on the magnetic fields of celestial bodies, including Saturn's moon Enceladus. She is a principal investigator for the Cassini mission and has made significant contributions to our understanding of the interactions between planetary atmospheres and magnetic fields.