Team Members – Quantifying Space Weather Impacts caused by Extreme Solar Energetic Particle Events

Name	Institute/Location	Expertise
Simon Thomas (Lead)	IRAP, France	Analysis of observations in the solar wind & ionosphere. Quantify risks from worst-case scenarios.
Stephanie Yardley (Co-lead)	Northumbria University, UK	Observational analysis & data-driven magnetic field modelling, and magnetic connectivity of SEP source regions.
David Brooks	GMU, US/JAXA, Japan	Tracing SEP events back to their source regions by applying and adapting his composition diagnostic technique to Hinode/EIS and SolO datasets.
Du Toit Strauss	North-West University, South Africa	Modelling of energetic particles in the heliosphere, with a focus on the interactions with solar wind transients. Contribute to selection of SEP and GLE events.
Nicolas Wijsen	KU Leuven, Belgium	To run PARADISE SEP test-particle model this for each of the events analysed in the study.
Laura Rodriguez-Garcia	ESAC/ESA, Spain	To analyse spacecraft observations within the inner heliosphere for each of the SEP events.
Mathew Owens	University of Reading, UK	Giving historical context to SEP and GLE events from results of recent studies. Model heliospheric magnetic field using HUXt data assimilation scheme.
Ilya Usoskin	University of Oulu, Finland	Provide expertise in defining extreme events & help to direct the methodology to apply this to SEP hazards.
Monika Szelag	Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland	Evaluate the influence each SEP event has on the chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere using methodology from recent study.
François Trompier	IRSN, France	Investigate the radiation doses from SEP events in the atmosphere to evaluate the impacts to aviation using observations and the Sievert PN tool.
Karen Aplin	University of Bristol, UK	Investigating the impact of SEP events on atmospheric electricity on Earth and other planets.
Jingnan Guo	University of Science and Technology of China, China	Provide expertise on SEP transport and impacts at the planets, providing her methodology utilised in recent studies focussed on Mars