Minna Palmroth


Minna Palmroth is a professor in computational space physics at the University of Helsinki; her particular area of interest is magnetospheric physics.

Life

Palmroth is from Sahalahti, a small village near Tampere, Finland. She studied physics at the University of Helsinki, graduating in 1999 with her first degree and in 2003 with a post-graduate degree. From 2013 to 2016 she was a researcher at the Earth Observation Programme of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. In January 2018 she was appointed director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space.