Professor Sandra Chapman

Sandra Chapman

Sandra Chapman is primarily but not exclusively a plasma physicist working on problems in astrophysics and in the laboratory. She is currently Professor of Physics in the Space and Astrophysics at the University of Warwick. Here is a brief biography

As well as a number of STFC, EPSRC and EC funded research programmes, her work has been recognised and supported by:

Awards and Honours

2024 European Geosciences Union Hannes Alfvén Medal
2022 Royal Astronomical Society Chapman Medal
2021 Lloyd’s of London Science of Risk Prize (Climate Change)
2020 Ed Lorenz Lecture, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union
2014 Royal Astronomical Society James Dungey Lecture
1994 COSPAR/Russian Academy of Sciences Zeldovich Medal, Commission D
1993 European Geophysical Society Young Scientists' Publication Award

Research Fellowships

2023 International Space Science Institute Johannes Geiss Fellow, ISSI, Bern
2017 Fulbright-Lloyd’s of London Scholarship, Boston University
2003 Radcliffe Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard
2003 NESTA Dream Time Fellow; Warwick, Harvard, and Antarctica (BAS)
1995 PPARC Lecturer Research Fellow, Warwick
1995 Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellow, Warwick
1989 Royal Society/JSPS Fellow, Geophysical Institute, Kyoto University
1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, QMW, London, Kyoto University, Sussex University

Visiting Scholar Positions

2025 High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Visiting Researcher
2012-15, 2021-24 Adjunct Professor in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Tromso
2019 High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Visiting Researcher
2016 Senior Researcher Guest Scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact (PIK)
2013-14 Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
2004 Visiting Professor, University of Uppsala Centre for Dynamical Processes and Structure Formation
1998 Visiting Professor in Physics, RASC, Kyoto University