Chris Goddard successfully defended his PhD thesis on 21 May. He is employed as a PDRA on the British Council project we hold with Ivan Zimovets, till the end of March, 2019.

Petra Kohutova successfully defended her PhD thesis on Magnetohydrodynamic Oscillations in Solar Coronal Rain on Monday 14 May 2018. The thesis examiners were Profs Duncan Mackay (St Andrews) and Tony Arber. In her thesis, Petra investigated oscillatory phenomena in cooling loops in the solar corona in observations from space-born instruments and ground-based observatory and modeled them using MHD simulations with the Lare code. Petra's supervisor was Dr Erwin Verwichte. From her PhD work, she produced four refereed articles as a first author and she contributed to two more as a co-author.

A picture of the "diamond ring" effect, taken by Chloe Pugh. The chromosphere really exists!