Here is a list of early career lecturers, postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students that would like to give seminars at institutes around the UK.
Please contact the Deputy Chair if you would like your name added (with a short description of your research) or removed from the list.
List of speakers (last update 24/10/2024):
- Alexander James (alexander.james@ucl.ac.uk), UCL MSSL
My research combines solar radio observations with numerical simulations to further understand how energetic electrons are accelerated and travel through the solar system. I also study the formation and eruption of magnetic flux ropes as CMEs, with particular interest in understanding the role of the torus instability. I am an expert in analysing photospheric magnetograms and extrapolating coronal magnetic field models of active regions to better understand solar eruptive activity.
- John Armstrong (j.armstrong.2@research.gla.ac.uk), University of Glasgow
I am interested in the chromospheric response to solar flares which I study through the analysis of optical/NIR imaging spectropolarimetry data. The main focus of my research is inversions and machine learning and how to use these two in tandem to learn about the flaring chromosphere.
- Ryan Campbell (rcampbell55@qub.ac.uk), Queen’s University Belfast
My research revolves around spectropolarimetry; understanding how Stokes profiles and subsequent use of inversion techniques can be used to provide insight on the physical conditions in the solar atmosphere. My main project involves working with data obtained from the largest solar telescope in Europe, GREGOR, revealing the temporal evolution of the small-scale magnetic field in the solar inter-network photosphere, with particular interest paid to analyzing the linear polarization signals.
- Ryan French (ryan.french.14@ucl.ac.uk), UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
My research interests include the release and transport of energy in solar flares. In particular, spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric signatures of magnetic reconnection dynamics.
- Dr Marie Gorman (M.N.Gorman@sussex.ac.uk), University of Sussex
I am interested in diatomic molecules in sunspots for magnetic field diagnostics: my background is in doing quantum chemistry calculations for diatomics in brown dwarf/exoplanet atmospheres.
- Dr Dmitrii Kolotkov (D.Kolotkov.1@warwick.ac.uk), University of Warwick
My research interests include theory and analysis of MHD waves and oscillations in the solar corona; MHD coronal seismology; nonlinear wave dynamics; theory and analysis of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares; theory of prominence oscillations; physics of solar radio bursts; analysis of non-stationary, nonlinear, and short-lived solar and stellar oscillatory signals with FFT, wavelets, and EMD; Hilbert-Huang Transform analysis; Bayesian analysis; Markov Chain Monte-Carlo method.
- Dr David Long (david.long@ucl.ac.uk), UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
My research focuses mainly on the initiation and evolution of global waves in the low solar corona and the evolution of plasma abundances and fractionation in the solar atmosphere associated with solar eruptions.
- Jack Reid (jr93@st-andrews.ac.uk), University of St. Andrews
My research interests include the structure and evolution of the Sun’s global magnetic field, with a particular focus on the production, formation, and eruption of filaments. Like many, I also work on the coronal heating problem, and investigate how turbulent magnetic fields release energy through recurring chains of small, reconnection-triggered heating events: Parker’s nanoflares.
- Dr David Stansby (d.stansby@ucl.ac.uk), UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
I am interested in making new discoveries through combining remote sensing observations of the Sun and in-situ measurements of the solar wind. In particular, I am currently working on understanding how the properties of different types of solar wind are controlled by processes occurring in the photosphere, chromosphere, and corona. https://www.davidstansby.com/
- Dr Stephanie Yardley (sly3@st-andrews.ac.uk),University of St. Andrews
My research focuses on using data-driven simulations to model the coronal evolution of active regions and the Sun’s global magnetic field. I am particularly interested in modelling the magnetic field evolution pre-eruption, prior to CMEs.