Dr Keith Yearby

Keith Yearby attained his PhD in the Physics department at the University of Sheffield in 1982, using Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio waves to study the earth's magnetosphere. He then spent two years operating the VLF experiments at the British Antarctic Survey base Halley, before returning to work in VLF research at Cambridge and Sheffield. In 1989 he joined the Space Instrumentation Group within Automatic Control and Systems Engineering to work on the development of the Digital Wave Processor (DWP) instrument for the ESA/NASA Cluster mission. Other space instrumentation projects have included hardware and software support for the DWP instrument on the Russian Mars 96 mission, design and construction of electronics for a Faraday Cup instrument on the Varient mission, and the design and manufacture of a DWP instrument for the Chinese Double Star mission. Although based on the Cluster DWP, the Double Star instrument includes the hardware and software for a new spectrum analyser for magnetic field fluctuations.