PhD Students
Current PhD Students (Principal Supervisor)
Sophie Boswell
Start of PhD: September 2022
Topic: Collisionless Current Sheets
Kate Mowbray
Start of PhD: September 2020
Topic: Solar flare particle acceleration
Lilli Nadol
Start of PhD: September 2020
Topic: Applications of magnetohydrodynamic equilibria to coronal magnetic field modelling
Current PhD Students (Second Supervisor)
Ann Vaseekar
Start of PhD: September 2020
Topic: Global Solar Magnetic Fields
Principal Supervisor: Prof D Mackay
Former PhD Students (Principal Supervisor or substantial contribution to supervision)
Callan Noble (supervised jointly with Clare Parnell)
Start of PhD: September 2017
Thesis submitted: 10 February 2022
Title of Thesis: Solar Cycle Variation of Photospheric and
Chromospheric Magnetic and Ultraviolet Emission Features Observed by the Solar
Dynamics Observatory
Teri Love (supervised jointly with Clare Parnell)
Start of PhD: September 2017
Thesis submitted: 4 October 2021
Title of Thesis: An Investigation of the Magnetic Field Structure of Flaring
Solar Active Regions Using Global Magnetic Field Models and Automated Techniques
Daniel Chambers (supervised jointly with Clare Parnell)
Start of PhD: February 2017
Thesis submitted: 27 May 2021
Title of Thesis: Numerical experiments on reconnection in magnetic field
configurations containing null points and separators
Alexei Borissov
Start of PhD: September 2014
Thesis submitted: 26 March 2018
Title of Thesis: Theoretical models of charged particle acceleration motivated by solar flares
Start of PhD: September 2013
Thesis submitted: 24 March 2017
Title of Thesis: Theory of one-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell equilibria:
with applications to collisionless current sheets and flux tubes
Jonathan Hodgson
Start of PhD: September 2012
Thesis submitted: 17 June 2016
Title of Thesis: On the theory of symmetric MHD equilibria with anisotropic pressure
Solmaz Eradat Oskoui
Start of PhD: April 2010
Thesis submitted: 20 January 2014
Title of Thesis: New Aspects of Particle Acceleration in Collapsing Magnetic Traps
Start of PhD: October 2008
Thesis submitted: 1 June 2012
Title of Thesis: Equilibrium and Stability Properties of Collisionless Current Sheet Models
Keith Grady
Start of PhD: October 2007
Thesis Submitted: 23 November 2011
Title of Thesis: Solar Flare Particle Acceleration in Collapsing Magnetic Traps
Nasser Al-Salti (supervised together with Gunnar Hornig, University of Dundee)
Start of PhD: January 2006
Thesis submitted: February 2010
Title of Thesis: Aspects of Three-dimensional MHD: Magnetic Reconnection and Rotating Coronae
Michael G Harrison
Start of PhD : October 2005
Thesis submitted: February 2009
Title of Thesis: Equilibrium and Dynamics of Collisionless Current Sheets
Francois-Xavier Bocquet
Start of PhD : March 2001
Thesis submitted: March 2005
Title of Thesis: Investigations of Current Build-up in Topologically Simple Magnetic Fields
Paul D Wood
Start of PhD : September 2001
Thesis submitted : October 2004
Title of Thesis : Elements of Solar Activity - Particle Acceleration and Filament Formation
Richard D Ryan
Start of PhD : September 1998
Thesis submitted : August 2002
Title of Thesis : Investigations of Rotating Magnetospheres
Zaharenia Romeou
Start of PhD: October 1998
Thesis submitted: February 2002
Title of Thesis: On the Application of Numerical Continuation Methods to Two- and Three-dimensional Solar and Astrophysical Problems
Gordon J D Petrie
Start of PhD: September 1997
Thesis submitted: September 2000
Title of Thesis: Three-dimensional Equilibrium Solutions to the Magnetohydrodynamic
Equations and their Application to Solar Coronal Structures