Nickolay Ivchenko gets the professorship

This is a well-deserved position due to Nickolay’s decades long dedication to teaching, space instrument development (ASK cameras, Spider I&II, Syster etc.) and scientific contributions to ionospheric and small-scale auroral physics. Nickolay built up the space track at the Electromagnetic, Fusion and Space Engineering masters programme from scratch, as well as the student workshop in the basement of our building. It used for practical activities in many space and electrical engineering student projects. During the last ten years, Nickolay has led one successful REXUS team after the other (ESA student rocket experiment). He is course leader of Elektroproject II (a large obligatory bachelor course) and several masters courses about space physics and instrumentation. In addition he has supervised countless projects, bachelor and master thesis students and several PhD students. I am sure, I forgot at least half of what he has done else for KTH students and the Swedish Space Community since he started in the 1990s as a young PhD student in our group.