Norah Kaggwa Kwagala
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics and Technology
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Norah Kaggwa Kwagala is a researcher in the space science group at the Department of Physics and Technology. She obtained her PhD in space physics in 2018 from the University of Bergen at the Birkeland Centre for Space Science. She was also a guest student at the University Centre in Svalbard during her PhD.
She leads space weather related research and activities at UiB. This includes UiB’s contributions to the European Space Agency (ESA) Space Weather network, and representation of Norway to the World Meteorological Organisation Expert Team on Space Weather. This also involves collaboration with Norwegian entities like the Norwegian Space Agency, and the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT). She is currently leading an ESA consortium which focuses on physics-based global modelling of the near-Earth space environment, including development of a space weather forecasting capability. She also recently led a study to explore how the new EISCAT 3D radar can be utilized for space weather applications.
Her research interests include magnetospheric dynamics, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, modelling of space weather effects using global geospace models, and validation of space weather forecasts against measurements. One of her research ambitions is to understand how multi-scale coupling shapes the Earth’s space.
