Stan Cowley

Stanley William Herbert Cowley FRS ^[6] (born 1947)^[7] is a British physicist, Emeritus Professor of Solar Planetary Physics at the University of Leicester.^[8][9][10]

Stan Cowley FRS
Stan Cowley in 2016
Born	Stanley William Herbert Cowley 1947 (age 77–78)
Education	Caludon Castle School
Alma mater	Imperial College London (PhD)
Awards	Chapman Medal (1991) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2006)
Scientific career
Fields	Solar-planetary physics[1]
Institutions	University of Colorado University of Leicester
Thesis	Self-consistent models of magnetic neutral sheets (1972)
Academic advisors	James Dungey[2]
Doctoral students	Emma Bunce[3] Nicola Fox[4] Caitriona Jackman[5]
Website	le.ac.uk/people/stanley-cowley

Education

Cowley was educated at Caludon Castle School, Coventry, and Imperial College, London, graduating with first class honours in physics in 1968. He was awarded a PhD by Imperial in 1972 for research supervised by James Dungey.^[2]

Career and research

Cowley had a visiting Scholarship at the University of Colorado in 1972–73 before returning to Imperial, where was appointed a Lecturer in 1982, Reader in 1985 and Professor in 1988. He was appointed Head of the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group at Imperial in 1990 before moving in 1996 to the University of Leicester as Head of the Radio and Space Plasma Physics group.^[11]

Cowley's primary research interest is the physical processes that shape the outer plasma environments of Earth and the magnetised planets.^[1][11]

Cowley's former doctoral students include Emma Bunce,^[3] Nicola Fox,^[4] and Caitriona Jackman.^[5]

Honours and awards

• 2011: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)^[6]
• 2006: Awarded the Julius Bartels Medal by the European Geosciences Union
• 2006: Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for Geophysics
• 1995: Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
• 1991: Awarded the Chapman Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society

Emma Bunce and Stan Cowley in 2006