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Timothy L. Killeen

Tim Killeen
Tim Killeen sits at a wooden table and speaks to Tom Vilsack (unseen) with hands raised
Killeen in 2015
20th President of the University of Illinois System
Assumed office
18 May 2015
Preceded byRobert A. Easter
Personal details
Born
Timothy Laurence Killeen

1952 (age 71–72)
Cardiff, Wales
SpouseRoberta Johnson
Children5
EducationUniversity College London (BS, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsAtmospheric and space sciences
Atomic and molecular physics
Geoscience
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
University of Colorado, Boulder
National Science Foundation
State University of New York
University of Illinois System
ThesisPositron Collisions in Gaseous Media (1975)

Timothy Laurence Killeen (born 1952) is a British and American geophysicist, space physicist, professor, and university administrator.[1] Killeen took office as the president of the University of Illinois system in 2015. He has been the principal investigator on research projects for NASA and the National Science Foundation.[2] Killeen has authored more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as more than 300 other publications and papers.[3] He has served on various White House committees and task forces[4] and is a past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.[5][6]

  1. ^ President Timothy L. Killeen - Biography, retrieved 9 March 2023
  2. ^ "Timothy Killeen | Atmospheric Sciences at Illinois". atmos.illinois.edu. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Tim Killeen". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Prepared Statement by Timothy Killeen - House Science Committee Hearing on NASA Earth Sciences". www.spaceref.com. 28 April 2005. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  5. ^ President Timothy L. Killeen. Biography. University of Illinois.
  6. ^ Burns, A. G.; Killeen, T. L.; Wang, W.; Roble, R. G. (January 2004). "The solar-cycle-dependent response of the thermosphere to geomagnetic storms". Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 66 (1): 1–14. Bibcode:2004JASTP..66....1B. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2003.09.015. ISSN 1364-6826.

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