Imperial College London

ProfessorTimothyHorbury

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Professor of Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

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

 
 
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Location

 

6M65Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

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

Coburn JT, Verscharen D, Owen CJ, et al., 2024, The Regulation of the Solar Wind Electron Heat Flux by Wave-Particle Interactions, Astrophysical Journal, Vol:964, ISSN:0004-637X

Rojo M, Persson M, Sauvaud JA, et al., 2024, Electron moments derived from the Mercury Electron Analyzer during the cruise phase of BepiColombo, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol:683, ISSN:0004-6361

Matteini L, Tenerani A, Landi S, et al., 2024, Alfvénic fluctuations in the expanding solar wind: Formation and radial evolution of spherical polarization, Physics of Plasmas, Vol:31, ISSN:1070-664X

Laker R, Horbury TS, O’Brien H, et al., 2024, Using Solar Orbiter as an Upstream Solar Wind Monitor for Real Time Space Weather Predictions, Space Weather, Vol:22

Louarn P, Fedorov A, Prech L, et al., 2024, Skewness and kurtosis of solar wind proton distribution functions: The normal inverse-Gaussian model and its implications, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol:682, ISSN:0004-6361

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