Please find below 4 fully-funded PhD adverts in the areas of Solar Physics and Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial (MIST), for PhD opportunities within the Solar Physics research group at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK). The Solar Physics group is a large and successful research group, and our long-term programme is to understand all aspects of the solar-terrestrial connection. Evidence of the group’s success includes funding from STFC (including an Ernest Rutherford Fellow), NERC, Leverhulme Trust, Royal Astronomical Society, the US Air Force, and a UKRI Future Leader Fellow. The group also plays multiple roles in the UKRI SWIMMR (Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk) programme in support of the UK Met Office.
The 4 PhD opportunities are:
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• Oscillatory Reconnection: the physics of time-dependent, wave-generating reconnection
supervised by Professor James McLaughlin
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• Can a star’s internal oscillations power their coronae
supervised by Dr Richard Morton
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• Energy transfer in Earth’s Radiation Belts through global electromagnetic waves
supervised by Professor Jonathan Rae
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• The substorm source of Earth’s outer radiation belt
supervised by Professor Clare Watt
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Deadline is 7 January 2021, and the PhD starting date is anticipated to be March 2021.
For informal questions, please contact the relevant supervisor, and/or contact Professor James McLaughlin james.a.mclaughlin@northumbria.ac.uk .
Details on the research group can be found here : https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/mathematics-physics-and-electrical-engineering/research/solar-physics/