Ian Whittaker
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Ian Whittaker is a senior lecturer in physics at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. He completed his PhD in 2010 looking at the interaction of the Sun with the upper atmosphere of Venus. Since then he has held six postdoctoral positions, covering medical imaging, solar physics, the Earth's radiation belts, lightning in tropical cyclones, X-ray astronomy, and X-ray observations of the Earth's magnetopause. He currently teaches at Nottingham Trent University, where he am responsible for astrophysics lectures, laboratory supervision, tutorials, and student projects. He is very strongly interested in space science outreach, encouraging students and the public to take an interest in how our planet interacts with the solar system.
