Current PhD Projects
Current PhD Projects
Space physics postgraduate students and their projects:
| Student | Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Nawapat Kaweeyanun | Dr. Adam Masters | Modelling Ganymede's magnetosphere |
| Harley Kelly | Dr. Martin Archer/Dr. Jonathan Eastwood | Surface waves above the magnetic poles & Probing the nonlinear dynamics of turbulence in space plasmas |
| Ronan Laker | Prof. Tim Horbury | Investigating the Solar Wind in the Inner Heliosphere |
| Adrian LaMoury | Dr. Heli Hietala | Structure formation at shock waves and its space weather impacts |
| Harry Lewis | Dr. Julia Stawarz | Probing the nonlinear dynamics of turbulence in space plasmas |
| Zoe Lewis | Dr. Marina Galand |
Emissions from the coma of comet 67P |
| Jacob Parrott | Dr. Ingo Mueller-Wodarg | A Novel Analysis Technique for Martian Mutual Radio Occultation |
| Tom Woolley | Dr. Lorenz Matteini/Prof. Tim Horbury | Physics of the Inner Heliosphere |
| Sophia Zomerdijk-Russell | Dr. Adam Masters | Getting to grips with Mercury’s dynamic space environment as the Bepicolombo mission flies to the innermost planet |
Atmospheric physics postgraduate students and their projects:
| Student | Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Katie Blackford | Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis | The role of peat fires shaping future atmospheric composition the carbon cycle and climate |
| Liam Blyth | Dr. Heather Graven | Air pollution: Sources and sinks of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere |
| Philipp Breul | Dr. Arnaud Czaja/Dr. Paulo Ceppi | What determines the ability of the jet stream to shift in response to external forcing? |
| Alexander Brunmayr | Dr. Heather Graven | Regional Carbon Cycle Modelling |
| Milan Ding | Dr. Juliet Pickering | Laboratory Astrophysics: New Atomic Data for Astrophysics Applications |
| Michaela Flegrova | Prof. Helen Brindley | Quantifying the radiative impacts of African landscape fires |
| Fumi Hayashi | Dr. Arnaud Czaja | |
| George Horner | Dr. Edward Gryspeerdt/Prof. Helen Brindley | The impact of aerosol on convective clouds |
| Alexander Kuhn-Regnier | Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis | Predicting the ecological impact of future fire activity on a global scale |
| Jamie Matthews | Dr. Arnaud Czaja | The Gulf Stream as a modulator of blocking and European temperatre extremes |
| Rebecca Murray-Watson | Dr. Edward Gryspeerdt/Prof. Helen Brindley | Investigating the impact of aerosols on mixed-phase clouds |
| Sanjeevani Panditharatne | Prof. Helen Brindley | Understanding how Earth is losing its cool: A study in support of the FORUM satellite mission |
| Eric Schoenrock | Dr. Heather Graven | Estimating and attributing regional methane emissions using innovative atmospheric measurements |
| Beltran Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha | Prof. Helen Brindley | Truths & Forum |
| Pietro Salvi | Dr. Paulo Ceppi | Improving our understanding of radiative forcing in climate modelling |
| Marie Shaylor | Prof. Helen Brindley | Diagnosing dust-climate interactions in observations to test Earth System Models |
| Carl Thomas |
Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis/Dr. Peer Nowack | Using machine learning to constrain the atmospheric dynamics contritubtion to regional climate change |
| Enoch Tsui | Prof. Ralf Toumi | Climate Physics |
| Laura Warwick | Prof. Helen Brindley | Investigating the impact of IR surface emissivity knowledge & uncertainties on cllimate & weather forecasting timescales |
| Chris Wells | Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis | Human health co-benefits from climate change mitigation |
Recent Graduates
Here are some of our recent PhD graduates:
| Student | Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Omakshi Agiwal | Prof. Michele Dougherty | Cassini: End of mission data analysis |
| Kelvin Choi | Dr. Helen Brindley | Building a Long-term Record of the Global Solar Energy Resource from Satellite Observations |
| Alison Cobb | Dr. Arnaud Czaja | Ocean-atmosphere interactions in cyclones and their predictability |
| Florence Concepcion Mairey | Prof. Juliet Pickering | New accurate atomic data for astrophysics applications - Fe II transition probabilities. |
| Natasha Dansey | Dr. Arnaud Czaja/ Prof. Jo Haigh | |
| 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 |
| Goodwin Gibbins |
Prof. Jo Haigh and Valerio Lucarini |
Entropy Production in the Earth System |
| Nawapat Kaweeyanun |
Dr. Adam Masters |
Modelling Ganymede's magnetosphere |
| Joanna Lester |
Dr. Heather Graven/ Dr. Arnaud Czaja 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 |
| Ronan McAdam | Dr. Eric van Sebille | The connected ocean: comparing inter-ocean transport at the surface and at depth |
| Robbie Parks | Prof. Ralf Toumi | Extreme poleward heat transport to the high latitudes |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Alex Siddle | Dr. Ingo Müller-Wodarg | The Martian solar wind interaction |
| Sadie Robertson | Dr. Jonathan Eastwood | Magnetic reconnection with Magnetospheric Multiscale |
| Ned Staniland | Prof. Michele Dougherty | Magnetospheric dynamics and global field modeling at Saturn. |
| Peter Stephenson | Dr. Marina Galand | Cometary ionospheres |
| 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 |