Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) (Thomas Immel)
Thomas J. Immel is an associate research physicist at the Space Sciences Laboratory at University of California–
Berkeley (UCB). He is the principal investigator for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer mission. Currently, he is
the project manager for UCB’s National Science Foundation CubeSat for Ions, Neutrals, Electrons, and Magnetic
fields mission, to be launched in June 2012. His expertise is in upper-atmospheric and ionospheric physics and
magnetospheric–ionospheric coupling processes, and he has been a NASA guest investigator on both the Imager for
Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration and Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics
missions. Dr. Immel obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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