Dr Manish Patel
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
Open University UK
United Kingdom
Biography
"2015 - : Senior Lecturer (Research) in Planetary Sciences 2011 - 2015: Lecturer in Planetary Sciences 2008 - 2011: UK Space Agency Aurora Fellow, PSSRI, The Open University. 2004-2008: Research Fellow, PSSRI, The Open University. 2003-2004: Beagle 2 Operations Research Assistant."
Research Interest
"Design of Optical Instrumentation for Planetary Investigations (ExoMars TGO UVIS, ExoMars lander UVIS/AEP, Beagle 2 ESS and UV sensors). Co-PI of the NOMAD instrument on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter 2016 mission Science Co-I on the ACS, AMELIA and DREAMS instruments on ExoMars TGO Co-I on the PanCam instrument on the ExoMars Rover Co-I for the JANUS instrument on JUICE Co-I on the SSP insturment in the Cassini-Huygens mission and the ESS instrument on Beagle 2 Astrobiological investigation of planetary environments. Radiative transfer modelling of UV and visible light through planetary atmospheres. Opacity studies of dust storms and dust devils. Environmental simulation of planetary/icy body surface environments. Hypervelocity impact investigations within the solar system. President of the Astrobiology Society of Britain"
