[Physstaff] Alan Phelps

[Erling Riis]

Dear All,



We have received the great news that Alan Phelps has been awarded the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award (PSAC) 2017 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of Plasma Science.



"For ground-breaking and influential contributions to the field of plasma science, including plasma diagnostics, plasma waves, plasma-surface interactions, beam instabilities, ionospheric plasmas, magnetospheric science and novel microwave radiation sources."



In the 30 year history of the PSAC award Alan is the only UK based plasma scientist to be awarded this prize



Alan Phelps will be presented with the PSAC 2017 prize at the 44th International Conference on the Plasma Science, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA from the 21 to 25th of May 2017.



Many congratulations!



Erling


===============================================================
Professor Erling Riis
Head of Department
Department of Physics,               tel: 0141-5483490
Strathclyde University,
John Anderson Building,             e-mail: e.riis at strath.ac.uk<mailto:e.riis at strath.ac.uk>
Glasgow, G4 0NG
UK


The Department is a partner in SUPA, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://phys.strath.ac.uk/pipermail/physstaff/attachments/20161111/58584b72/attachment.html