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Congratulations to Dr Anne-Marie Broomhall and Dr Ravi Desai for securing STFC funding

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:21:00 GMT

Congratulations to Dr Anne-Marie Broomhall and Dr Ravi Desai for winning STFC funding in the latest grant period. Anne-Marie has secured continuation of her work using helioseismology to understand the Sun's magnetic activity through an STFC 3-year small award with postdoctoral support. Ravi is part of a UK consortium studying the Van Allen radiation belts who have won a 5-year STFC large award, with postdoctoral support and collaboration with the Warwick's RSE team.

This success comes on the heels of a 5-year STFC large award won last year by Prof Tony Arber, Dr Erwin Verwichte, Dr Keith Bennett and Warwick’s RSE team, as part of a UK consortium developing the next generation solar modelling code, SAMS. Tony and Erwin will be supported by two postdoctoral fellows in the coming years.

Sihui Zhong wins the RAS Keith Runcorn thesis Prize 2024!

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:24:45 GMT

Warmest congratulations to Sihui Zhong, who has been awarded the RAS Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize 2024 for her PhD thesis titled “Decayless Kink Oscillations of Solar Coronal Loops”, completed under the supervision of Professor Valery Nakariakov.

Congratulations to Sihui Zhong who won the Physics Winton Thesis Prize 2025!

Thu, 15 May 2025 10:41:27 GMT

Very well done!

Congratulations to Rebecca Meadowcroft who won Warwick Physics 2024 PhD Poster Prize!

Sat, 18 May 2024 04:14:25 GMT

Congratulations to Yu Zhong with the MSc thesis

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:41:41 GMT

Yu Zhong 's MSc thesis "Observational Study of Super-exponential Decay in Kink Oscillations of Coronal Loops" is recommended to pass with minor corrections. The MSc project was supervised by Val Nakariakov, and the examiners were Dr Anne-Marie Broomhall and Prof David Jess (QUB). Well done!

Susumu Matsumoto has successfully passed his MSc thesis

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:52:42 GMT

Susumu Matsumoto has under the supervision of Dr Erwin Verwichte completed their MSc thesis entitled "Analysis of oscillations and thermal limit cycles in coronal bright points". The examiners were Dr Anne-Marie Broomhall and Prof Huw Morgan (Aberystwyth). Well done!

Congratulations to Valery Nakariakov, awarded the 2024 RAS Chapman medal

Sun, 14 Jan 2024 13:10:04 GMT

Sandra Chapman gains the Hannes Alfvén Medal

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:48:00 GMT

Congratulations to Professor Sandra Chapman who has been awarded the EGU Hannes Alfvén Medal for her pioneering work in understanding plasma processes!

Congratulations to Dr Shahbaz Chaudhry who has sucessfully defended his PhD thesis

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:26:18 GMT

You can find details of his thesis work here:

S. Chaudhry, S. C. Chapman, J. Gjerloev, C. D. Beggan, Global dynamical network of the spatially correlated Pc2 wave response for the 2015 St. Patrick’s Day storm, J. Geophys. Res. doi:10.1029/2022JA031175 (2023)

Valery Nakariakov joins the SCOSTEP Bureau

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:53:00 GMT

Valery Nakariakov joins the Bureau of the Scientific Committee on the Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) as Representative of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).