Current PhD Projects
Current PhD Projects
Space physics postgraduate students and their projects:
| Student | Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Omakshi Agiwal | Prof. Michele Dougherty |
Cassini: End of mission data analysis |
| Florence Concepcion Mairey |
Prof. Juliet Pickering |
New accurate atomic data for astrophysics applications - Fe II transition probabilities. |
| Emma Davies |
Dr. Bob Forsyth |
Large scale structure in the solar wind |
| Ewen Davies |
Prof. Michele Dougherty/ Dr. Adam Masters |
The Dynamics of Saturn’s High Latitude Magnetic Field Configuration |
| Joe Eggington | Dr. Jonathan Eastwood | Global Simulations of Planetary Magnetospheres |
| Nawapat Kaweeyanun | Dr. Adam Masters |
Modelling Ganymede's magnetosphere |
| Harry Manners | Dr. Adam Masters | The structure and dynamics of Jupiter's giant magnetosphere |
| Sadie Robertson | Dr. Jonathan Eastwood | Magnetic reconnection with Magnetospheric Multiscale |
| Alex Siddle | Dr. Ingo Müller-Wodarg | The Martian solar wind interaction |
| Ned Staniland | Prof. Michele Dougherty | Magnetospheric dynamics and global field modeling at Saturn. |
| Peter Stephenson | Dr. Marina Galand |
Cometary ionospheres |
Atmospheric physics postgraduate students and their projects:
| Student | Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Kelvin Choi | Dr. Helen Brindley | Building a Long-term Record of the Global Solar Energy Resource from Satellite Observations |
| Natasha Dansey | Dr. Arnaud Czaja/ Prof. Jo Haigh | |
| Goodwin Gibbins | Prof.
Jo Haigh and Valerio Lucarini |
Entropy Production in the Earth System |
| Fumi Hayashi | Dr. Arnaud Czaja | |
| Joanna Lester | Dr. Heather Graven/ Dr. Arnaud Czaja (Imperial) and Samar Khatiwala (Oxford) | Studying ocean circulation, acidification and CO2 uptake using models and tracers |
| Yi Li | Prof. Ralf Toumi | Regional ocean data assimilation and forecast |
| Minyi Liang | Dr. Arnaud Czaja | Extreme poleward heat transport to the high latitudes |
| Robbie Parks | Prof. Ralf Toumi | Seasonality of mortality: evaluating past trends and forecasting the effects of a changing climate |
| Grace Redmond | Prof. Ralf Toumi | |
| Amy Seales | Dr. Helen Brindley | 'Reducing uncertainty in climate predictions: Enhancing the science case for TRUTHS' |
| Peter Shatwell | Dr. Arnaud Czaja, David Ferreira (Uni of Reading), Greg Pavliotis (Imperial Maths) | A process study of heat uptake by the global ocean |
| Mohan Smith | Prof. Ralf Toumi |
Applications of AI to Catastrophic Weather Event Prediction |
| Chris Wells | Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis |
Recent Graduates
Here are some of our recent PhD graduates:
| Student | Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Alison Cobb | Dr. Arnaud Czaja | Ocean-atmosphere interactions in cyclones and their predictability |
| Ronan McAdam | Dr. Eric van Sebille | The connected ocean: comparing inter-ocean transport at the surface and at depth |
| Luke Phillipson | Prof. Ralf Toumi | Ocean data assimilation in the Angola Basin |
| Cesar Quilodran Casas | Prof. Ralf Toumi | Fast ocean data assimilation and forecasting using a neural-network reduced-space regional ocean model of the north Brazil current |
| Kieran Brophy | Dr. Heather Graven/ Prof. Juliet Pickering | Atmospheric studies of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion |
| Rebecca Thomas | Dr. Heather Graven/ Prof. Colin Prentice | Using atmospheric CO2 measurements to advance land carbon science |
| Sunil Varma | Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis/ Dr. Arnaud Czaja | |
| Christian Clear | Prof. Juliet Pickering | The Spectrum and Term Analysis of Singly-ionised Nickel (Ni II) |
| Kevin Heritier | Dr. Marina Galand |
Cometary ionosphere analysis from Rosetta multi-instrumental dataset |
| Lars Mejnertsen | Dr. Jonathan Eastwood/ Prof. Jerry Chittenden | The dynamics of the outer boundaries in global simulations of planetary magnetospheres |
| Gianluca Carnielli | Dr. Marina Galand | Variability of the ionospheric plasma around Ganymede |
| David Stansby | Prof. Tim Horbury | The solar wind in the inner heliosphere |