Rate My Professor David Miles

Miles serves as principal investigator for NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, featuring two satellites launched on July 23, 2025, to investigate solar energy, mass, and momentum transfer to near-Earth space. He leads the magnetic field instrument on the Cassiope/e-POP spacecraft, now extended as Swarm-Echo by the European Space Agency, and was instrument principal investigator for the digital fluxgate magnetometer on the Ex-Alta-1 CubeSat. His lab has supplied fluxgate magnetometers for sounding rockets including ICI-4, ICI-5, Maxidusty-1b, and ACES-II, alongside contributions to ICI-5bis and the student-led OCHRE mission. Miles' publications have garnered over 749 citations. Notable works include "Swarm in situ observations of F region polar cap patches created by cusp precipitation" (Geophysical Research Letters, 2015), "The CASSIOPE/e-POP magnetic field instrument (MGF)" (Space Science Reviews, 2015), "A miniature, low-power scientific fluxgate magnetometer: A stepping-stone to cube-satellite constellation missions" (Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2016), and "Alfvénic dynamics and fine structuring of discrete auroral arcs: Swarm and e-POP observations" (Geophysical Research Letters, 2018). His leadership in instrumentation and missions enhances understanding of magnetospheric processes and supports space weather prediction.