Funded PhD studentship in Solar Physics at the University of Glasgow

A fully funded PhD studentship for a UK/EU student is available at the University of Glasgow in solar flare physics. The project title is “Connections between solar flare characteristics and their underlying magnetic drivers” and will be using some of the latest solar data to investigate EUV/X-ray flare signatures relative to their magnetic properties derived from magnetograms. The primary supervisor will be Dr. Iain Hannah, the secondary Prof. Lyndsay Fletcher, within the Astronomy & Astrophysics group in the SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, UK.

The PhD studentship will start between 1st August to 1st October 2015 for 3 years and has funding, from the University of Glasgow, for the fees (of a UK or EU student) and annual stipend (currently about £14,000).

Applicants should have (by the start date) at least a second class degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject and ideally some experience of solar data analysis – coding in IDL, SolarSoft and/or Python.

Applications need to be made by Monday 15th June 2015 through the University of Glasgow’s postgraduate research opportunities page: http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/opportunities/howtoapplyforaresearchdegree/

Additional information on the application procedure is available on the School’s website: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/research/postgraduate/

For more information please feel free to contact Dr Hannah at iain.hannah@glasgow.ac.uk