Ilya Usoskin

PhD

Professor
Space Physics

270 peer reviewed publications in international journals. The publications have been cited 9000 times, of which the most cited publication accounts for 550 citations. The author has a h-index of 50.00. (Web of Science)

Biography

Prof. Ilya Usoskin is the head of Oulu Cosmic Ray station and vice-Director of ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence, expert in cosmic-ray and heliospheric physics, solar physics and geophysics. He was graduated in 1988 as M.Sc. in Space Physics form Leningrad Polytechnics, obained a degree of Cand.Sci. in Astrophysics from A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Space Science from the University of Oulu in 2000. He worked as a postdoc at INFN (Milano) in 1997-1999, and as the head of Oulu Cosmic Ray Station since 2000.

Prof. Usoskin serves scientific community as an expert, being, in particular, a member of C4 (Astroparticle Physics) commission of IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), member of commission E3 of IAU (International Astronomical Union), member of Research Council of Russian Academy of Sciences, etc. He has several awards, most important being the Knighthood of the 1st class of the Order of Lion of Finland (2013) and Julius Bartels medal of European Geoscience Union (2018, and an award of the University of Oulu for outstanding contribution to research (2018). 

Personal webpage

Research interests

  • Cosmic rays
  • Solar Physics
  • Heliospheric Physics
  • Solar-terrestrial relations

Databases

Scientific merits

2019 - member, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
2018 - Julius Bartels medal of European Geophysical Union
2018 – Award of the University of Oulu for outstanding contribution in science
2013 - Knighthood, 1st class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland
2001 – INTAS Personal Prize Grant (YF 00-82) for Young Scientists
1997 - UNESCO/ICSU/TWAS Personal Award for Research in the Basic Sciences
1997 – Personal Prize Scholarship of the Nordic Council of Ministers in the field of Space Research

Professional and community activities

  • Member of the C4 commission (cosmic rays) of the IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics);
  • Team leader for AMS-02 experiment at CERN and MIT (2019-);
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Solar Physics journal (2009-2022)
  • Referee for many journals
  • Expert-evaluator of research proposals

Research groups

  • leader, Cosmic rays

Thesis supervisions

  • S. Koldobsky (expexted 2020) cosmic ray at Earth

  • P. Väisänen (expected 2020) cosmic ray variability

  • A. Artamonov (2017) atmospheric effects of solar radiation

  • E. Asvestari (2017) Imprints of long-term solar variability on cosmic rays and terrestrial archives

  • R. Leussu (2016) Historical sunspot observations and long-term solar activity

  • S. Poluianov (2016) Proxies for long-term cosmic ray variability

  • A. Abe Pacini (2015) Study of solar activity and climate dynamics using Beryllium isotopes

  • I. Virtanen (2013) Asymmetry of the heliospheric magnetic field

  • O. Yakovchuk (2012) temporal variability of solar and heliospheric activity

  • L. Zhang (2012) Solar active longitudes and their rotation

  • K. Alanko (2007) Models and applications of long-term heliospheric modulation of galactic cosmic rays

Keywords

Natural Sciences, Environment
Northern environment, environmental change
Antarctic
the Arctic
Space science, Astronomy
near-Earth space
solar effects on near-Earth space, atmosphere and climate
space climate
space weather