Dr. Jürgen Matzka
Building
H 1,
Room
213 (Büro)
Lindenstr. 7
14823
Niemegk
Building
A 42,
Room
229 (Büro)
Albert-Einstein-Straße 42-46
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
- Head of the Geomagnetic Observatory Niemegk
- Head of the working group „Geomagnetic Observatories“
Research Interests:
- Geomagnetism and space weather
- Geomagnetic observatories
- Scientific infrastructure and data
Career:
since 2014 senior scientist, GFZ Potsdam2010 – 2014 senior scientist, DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark
2007 – 2009 scientist, Danish Meteorological Institute
2001 – 2006 scientist, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Education:
2001 Dr. rer. nat., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München1997 DAAD scholarship, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
1997 Dipl.-Geophys., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Projects:
2018 – 2021 CAPES, Brazil, TODAY: Understanding the day-to-day variability of the equatorial electrojet and its longitudinal dependence (external participant and co-supervisor to G. B. Soares)
2017 – 2020 The Research Council of Norway, The mesospheric sodium layer as a remotely, optically pumped magnetometer for investigation of Birkeland currents (co-applicant)
2015 – 2019 DFG, Ma 2578/4-1. Quantifying solar flux and geomagnetic main field influence on the equatorial thermosphere-ionosphere system for timescales complementary to satellite missions 2013 – 2014 NSF, Award# Matzka/DTU. Magnetometer on Summit for the DTU Greenland Magnetometer Array
2013 – 2014 The Danish Council for Independent Research. ABZ-Mag: The Automatic aBsolute Z-Magnetometer
2013 – 2014 The Danish Council for Independent Research. GreenT: Greenland MagnetoTellurics
2012 – 2014 The Research Council of Norway. A combined global and local geomagnetic reference model for improving wellbore surveying accuracy (co-applicant)
2008 – 2012 The Danish Council for Independent Research. SAADAN: South Atlantic Anomaly Danish Magnetic Field Project
2005 – 2006 DFG, Ma 2578/3-1. Construction and geophysical interpretation of a Central European geomagnetic time series from historic sources
2004 – 2005 DFG, Ma 2578/2-1. Geomagnetic field variations and persistent non-dipole field contributions recorded by an approximately 130.000 years old lava sequence on Tristan da Cunha
2003 – 2005 DFG, Ma 2578/1-1. Microstructure of titanomagnetite in ocean basalt and consequences for its natural remanent magnetisation
Research Boards and Committees:
since 2024 Chair, INTERMAGNET Operations Committee
since 2024 Member, INTERMAGNET Executive Council
since 2023 Co-chair, IAGA Working Group V-OBS: Geomagnetic Observations
2019 - 2023 Chair, IAGA Working Group V-OBS: Geomagnetic Observations
2018 - 2022 Chair, SuperMAG Steering Committee, http://supermag.jhuapl.edu/
since 2018 Member, SuperMAG Steering Committee, http://supermag.jhuapl.edu/
since 2018 Member, IMAGE Science Council, IMAGE magnetometer network, space.fmi.fi/image/
since 2016 Member, Ultra Large Terrestrial International Magnetometer Array
2016 - 2020 Member, Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group
2015 - 2019 Co-chair, IAGA Working Group V-OBS: Geomagnetic Observations
since 2010 Member, INTERMAGNET Operations Committee
Reviewer for Acta Geophysica, Annales Geophysicae, Annals of Geophysics, Data Science Journal, Earth Planets Space, Elements, Environmental Pollution, EOS, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters, Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems, History of Geo- and Space Sciences, Journal of Applied Geophysics, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Marine Geology, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Remote Sensing, Science, Scientific Reports, Space Science Reviews, Space Weather