Academic responsibilities:

• Programme Director, Physics of the Environmental BSc

Research Interests:

• The heliospheric magnetic field
• The source of the slow solar wind
• Empirical and physics-based space-weather forecasting
• Reconstructions of long-term solar variability

Externally funded research projects:

• Current: What determines the open solar magnetic flux? (STFC funded)
• Current: Solar wind forecasting from L5 (ESA funded)
• Current: Space Weather Empirical Ensemble Package (STFC SWIMMR)
• Finished: Creation/destruction of heliospheric magnetic flux (STFC funded)
• Finished: Solar wind data assimilation (NERC funded)
• Finished: Space Weather Impact on Ground-based Systems (NERC funded)
• Finished: Driving Space Weather forecasts with real data (NERC funded)
• Finished: The heliosphere and space weather under space-climate change (STFC funded)
• Finished: Geomagnetic, sunspot and cosmogenic nuclide reconstructions of the solar magnetic field (Leverhulme funded)

Current postdoctoral & graduate student supervision

• Dr Stephanie Yardley. Studying inner heliosphere solar wind and solar connections.
• Anna-Marie Frost. Studying solar wind formation through in situ observations.
• Lauren James. Studying the evolution of coronal mass ejections in the heliosphere. Co-supervised with Prof Chris Scott
• Harriet Turner. Studying solar wind forecasting through data assimilation.
• Sarah Watson. Solar Wind Interactions with Planets and Minor Planetary Bodies. Co-supervised with Prof Chris Scott

Former postdoctoral & graduate student supervision

• Dr Allan Macneil Analysing solar wind electron observations of the inner heliosphere.
• Dr Luke Barnard Working on solar wind model initiation using heliospheric imager data and space climate reconstructions.
• Dr Matthew Lang Developing data assimilation techniques for the solar wind.
• Austin Jones Studying the link between thunderstorm activity and the ionosphere. Co-supervised with Prof Chris Scott
• Dr Teo Bloch Applying machine learning to space physics problems. Co-supervised with Dr Clare Watt
• Dr Carl Haines Characterising geomagnetic disturbances. In conjunction with EDF Energy.
• Dr Bingkun Yu Working on lightning effects on the ionosphere
• Dr Nachiketa Chakraborty Looking at causal inference problems in space weather science
• Dr Shannon Jones Working on coronal mass ejections using Heliospheric Imager observations. Co-supervised with Prof Chris Scott
• Dr Maria Valdivieso da Costa Digitising and processing historical thunder observations
• Dr Sarah Bentley Working on solar wind driving of magnetospheric wave power and its effects on the radiation belts. Co-supervised with Dr Clare Watt
• Dr Mai Mai Lam Working on space-troposphere coupling and space influences on the global atmospheric electric circuit
• Dr Adam El-Said Testing the "Enlil" solar wind model initialised with Heliospheric Imager data
• Dr Kim Tucker-Hood (co-supervised with Dr Chris Davis and Prof David Jackson through a Met Office CASE award). Working on solar storm forecasting from heliospheric imager data
• Dr Simon Thomas Analysing ground-based neutron monitor data

Other interests

• Co-investigator for the Solar Orbiter magnetometer experiment
• Associate Editor for Solar Physics
• Elected member of MIST council
• Former Associate Editor for Journal of Geophysical Research (Space)