By winning the fellowship make Heyns one of the twenty nine (29) early career scientists drawn from around the world that were announced Schmidt Science Fellows the year 2022.
Heyns was named Schmidt Science Fellow in recognition of his outstanding performance and contribution to advance discovery and driving innovation that improves the quality of life for all.
According to Schmidt Science Fellowship, Dr. Michael Heyns research interests:
focused on improving the operational modeling of geomagnetic fields and geomagnetically induced currents for utilities. He plans to harness computational physics to help us better understand the fundamental phenomena underlying space weather events, such as solar storms. He also aims to increase the resilience of modern infrastructure in the face of extreme space weather events.
Becoming a Schmidt Science Fellow eligible Heynes to a series of supports, professional mentoring and a stipend of up to the sum $200,000 ($100,000/year) to pursue research that has to do with his PhD program, thereby helping him to full potential as a future scientific leader.
Heyns is a member of Space and Atmospheric Physics at the Department of Physics, ICL.
He was an alumni of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town where he earned his PhD. He was part of the University of Cape Town (UCT) SpaceLab and of the National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme (NASSP).
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