Rate My Professor Henrik Melin

Dr Henrik Melin is Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics at Northumbria University. He holds a PhD in Physics awarded in March 2006. His research centres on the atmospheres and ionospheres of the giant planets, with particular emphasis on infrared observations using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). He has led or contributed to multiple JWST programmes examining auroral activity, ionospheric structure, and atmospheric dynamics on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Melin has authored or co-authored more than eighty peer-reviewed articles, including recent publications in Nature Astronomy and Geophysical Research Letters that report the first JWST detections of infrared aurorae at Neptune and detailed vertical ionospheric profiles at Uranus. He previously held positions at the University of Leicester and is an STFC James Webb Space Telescope Fellow. His work has advanced understanding of planetary upper atmospheres through spectroscopic analysis of H₃⁺ emissions and related phenomena. Melin also supervises postgraduate researchers investigating outer-planet ionospheres and exoplanet atmospheric benchmarks.