ProfessorTimothyHorbury

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Physics

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 7676t.horbury Website

Location

6M65Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Member of the Space and Atmospheric Physics group

Principal Investigator of the Solar Orbiter magnetometer

Science lead of the IMAP magnetometer

Science lead of the HelioSwarm magnetometer

Science team member, FIELDS and SWEAP on Parker Solar Probe

PhD projects

I will be offering a STFC-funded PhD project starting in October 2024 on solar wind physics; please get in touch if you are interested.

UROP opportunities

I am not offering any UROP placements this summer.

Research interests

Waves and turbulence in plasmas
Solar wind structures
Novel data analysis techniques
Particle acceleration and propagation

Teaching

Assessor, MSci projects

Publications

Journals

Trotta D, Pezzi O, Burgess D, et al.Trotta D, Pezzi O, Burgess D, Preisser L, Blanco-Cano X, Kajdic P, Hietala H, Horbury TS, Vainio R, Dresing N, Retinò A, Marcucci MF, Sorriso-Valvo L, Servidio S, Valentini F close, 2023, Three-dimensional modelling of the shock-turbulence interaction, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol:525, ISSN:0035-8711, Pages:1856-1866

Horbury T, Bale S, mcmanus M, et al.Horbury T, Bale S, mcmanus M, Larson D, Kasper J, Laker R, Matteini L, Raouafi N, Velli M, Woodham L, Woolley T, Fedorov A, Louarn P, Kieokaew R, Durovcova T, Chandran B, Owen C close, 2023, Switchbacks, microstreams and broadband turbulence in the solar wind, Physics of Plasmas, Vol:30, ISSN:1070-664X

Livi S, Lepri ST, Raines JM, et al.Livi S, Lepri ST, Raines JM, Dewey RM, Galvin AB, Louarn P, Collier MR, Allegrini F, Alterman BL, Bert CM, Bruno R, Chornay DJ, D'Amicis R, Eddy TJ, Ellis L, Fauchon-Jones E, Fedorov A, Gershkovich I, Holmes J, Horbury TS, Kistler LM, Kucharek H, Lugaz N, Nieves-Chinchilla T, O'Brien H, Ogasawara K, Owen CJ, Phillips M, Ploof K, Rivera YJ, Spitzer SA, Stubbs TJ, Wurz P close, 2023, First results from the Solar Orbiter Heavy Ion Sensor, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol:676, ISSN:0004-6361

Zhu X, He J, Duan D, et al.Zhu X, He J, Duan D, Verscharen D, Owen CJ, Fedorov A, Louarn P, Horbury TS close, 2023, Non-field-aligned Proton Beams and Their Roles in the Growth of Fast Magnetosonic/Whistler Waves: Solar Orbiter Observations, Astrophysical Journal, Vol:953, ISSN:0004-637X

Chen L-J, Spence H, Klein K, et al.Chen L-J, Spence H, Klein K, Matthaeus W, Lavraud B, Szabo A, Roberts OW, Génot V, Verscharen D, Horbury T, Retino A, Alexandrova O, Reynolds C, Halekas J, Dors I, Arzamasskiy L, Contel OL, TenBarge J, Forsyth C, Jian L, Galvin A, Schekochihin A, Maruca BA close, 2023, Plasma turbulence: Challenges and next transformative steps from the perspective of multi-spacecraft measurements, Vol. 55, Issue 3 (heliophysics 2024 Decadal Whitepapers)

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