Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
I completed my PhD in 2010 looking at the interaction of the Sun with the upper atmosphere of Venus. Since then I have held six postdoctoral contracts, covering medical imaging, solar physics, the Earth's radiation belts, lightning in tropical cyclones, X-ray astronomy, and X-ray observations of the Earth's magnetopause.
I currently teach at Nottingham Trent University, where I am responsible for astrophysics lectures, laboratory supervision, tutorials and student projects. I am very strongly interested in space science outreach, encouraging students and the public to take an interest in how our planet interacts with the solar system.
Scientists have started steering lightning with lasers – here's how
Jan 24, 2023 07:36 am UTC| Science
Lightning may look beautiful but every year it kills thousands of people, does huge amounts of damage to buildings and infrastructure, and causes power outages. The only protection we have is lightning rods, which were...
Oct 19, 2022 08:52 am UTC| Science
Virgin Orbit, a US company which provides launch services for satellites, has announced that the first orbital space mission from the UK will blast off from Cornwall. The rocket, which will carry nine satellites, along...
Ax-1: why the private mission to the International Space Station is a game changer
Apr 05, 2022 11:57 am UTC| Science
Its not long since billionaires were competing to get to the edge of space. Now, the first set of private citizens are getting ready to take a SpaceX shuttle up to the International Space Station (ISS). Unlike the short...
Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin: can they be more than 'space' joyrides for millionaires?
Jul 18, 2021 10:33 am UTC| Business
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the edge of space on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on 12 July. The event was hailed as the start of space tourism, narrowly...
SpaceX astronaut launch: here's the rocket science it must get right
May 29, 2020 14:17 pm UTC| Science
Two NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, will make history by travelling to the International Space Station in a privately funded spacecraft, SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule. It will also be...
Four graphs that suggest we can't blame climate change on solar activity
Jan 28, 2020 08:44 am UTC| Nature
The past decade (2010-2019) was the hottest on record and five of the top 10 warmest single years have all occurred since 2015, according to reports released by the UK Met Office and the World Meteorological...
Space milestones: here are the missions to look forward to in 2020
Jan 06, 2020 17:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Last year was an excellent year for space exploration, with the icing on the Christmas cake the first ever image acquired of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope. This year, 2020, is set to be interesting too....
Will AI tech like ChatGPT improve inclusion for people with communication disability?