Ph D Students
At the minute I am supervisor for four PhD students - Fatima Rubio da Costa (joint with Universita di Catania, on the SOLAIRE network), Jingnan Guo (joint with Max Planck Institute Lindau, on the SOLAIRE network) Fraser Watson and David Graham.Iain Hannah graduated in July 2005, went west to Berkeley, but has now returned to a research assistant position in Glasgow. Brian Hamilton graduated in July 2006 and headed east to the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh. Laura Bone joined our solar colleagues at MSSL and is now training as a patent attorney. Jennifer Pollock graduated in July 2008, and is working at Selex Galileo in Edinburgh. Colin Gill finished his Masters and started a PhD in the Institute for Gravitational Research here in Glasgow. Robert McKay graduted in July 2009 and now works at Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory at the University of Strathclyde. Hazel Bain graduated in July 2010 (photo by Iain Hannah) and is now a postdoc at U. C. Berkeley.| Iain Hannah | Numerical and analytical studies of dynamical chaos of charged particles in steady reconnecting X-type neutral points; analysis of RHESSI microflare statistics |
| Brian Hamilton | Development of CUEBIT algorithm for fast simulation of charged particle trajectories; numerical studies of electron and proton acceleration in non-steady reconnection |
| Laura Bone | Multiwavelength studies of signatures of fast particles in solar flares, using RHESSI, radio and EUV data |
| Jennifer Pollock | Development of stochastic simulations of charged particle transport in collisional media, application to RHESSI data. |
| Robert McKay | Interfacing MHD and test-particle simulations of reconnection, numerical studies of electron and proton acceleration in non-steady reconnection |
| Craig MacLachlan | Low temperature plasma, specifically cold plasma instabilities and Alfven ionisation |
| Hazel Bain | RHESSI flare spectroscopy, observations and modeling of flare microwave emission. |
| Fatima Rubio da Costa | UV and EUV flare observations, and related modelling (joint with Francesca Zuccarello at Catania). |
| Colin Gill | Use of active contours for automatic detection and tracking of flare ribbons. |
| Fraser Watson | Automated sunspot detection using mathematical morphology, sunspot evolution and relationship to flaring activity. |
| Jingnan Guo | Studies of thermal and non-thermal electrons using RHESSI data, and test particle simulations of particle acceleration in fields derived from MHD simulations (joint with Max Planck Lindau). |
| David Graham | Hinode/EIS diagnostics during solar flares. |
Prospective students can find out about Ph.D. projects being offered by me and other members of the Glasgow University Astronomy and Astrophysics Group by clicking here.
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