Jack Ireland

I’m a Senior Support Scientist working on the SOHO spacecraft at the Goddard Space Flight Centre.  I’m currently working on 2 projects – the mathematical modeling of spectrometers, and predicting weather on the sun using fractal dimensions and information of what’s already happened.  As well as this I also plan what the CDS instrument on SOHO does and report daily on the EIT data

At school in Scotland my favourite subject was English, and my first degree is in maths & physics. My PhD is on genetic algorithms for modelling the Earth’s magnetosphere. For recreation I play volleyball in the National Mall in Washington DC. I also like hiking and travelling to exotic places, most recently Russia, Swaziland and Peru. I’m learning Dutch too, but I'm not very good at it yet.