Julie Currie

Dr. Julie Currie is a Lecturer in the School of Science at RMIT University, specializing in Geospatial Science and Ionospheric Physics. Her research focuses on space weather, ionospheric modeling, and plasma dynamics, with applications to GNSS positioning and satellite drag prediction. She leads the RMIT University’s practical space weather prediction laboratory and supervises postgraduate research on data assimilation in thermosphere-ionosphere models and neural network-based ionospheric forecasting.

Her teaching interests span Space Science, Magnetosphere dynamics, and radiowave propagation. Recent research highlights include analyzing ionospheric effects of volcanic eruptions (e.g., Hunga Tonga), geomagnetic storm impacts, and developing novel indices for quantifying equatorial plasma bubble occurrences. She collaborates widely, using COSMIC satellite data and incoherent scatter radar observations to advance understanding of upper atmospheric phenomena.

Key contributions include improving GNSS accuracy through ionospheric corrections, mitigating lunar dust contamination for spacesuit design, and modeling geomagnetically induced currents threatening power grids. Her work bridges theoretical physics, applied geomatic engineering, and practical space weather forecasting infrastructure.