2020 – present: Radiation Belt Scientist
British Antarctic Survey
Part of the Sat-Risk project developing a real-time space weather forecasting system and researching radiation belt dynamics.

2019-2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Researching and modelling the development of volcanic plumes in the atmosphere.

2015 – 2019: PhD – Laminar Analogues of Atmospheric Phenomena
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge
Researching geophysical models of atmospheric vortices and thermals.

2011 – 2015: BA and M.Eng
University of Cambridge

Research interests

At BAS my main research interests are:

• Earth’s radiation belts
• The development of radiation belt models and their use in space weather forecasting

More widely I am interested in the modelling geophysical phenomena, and constructing simplified mathematical models of more complex phenomena to explore the underlying physics.
Previously this has included:

• Volcanic plumes and mesoscale atmospheric simulations
• Microphysics models
• Atmospheric Vortices
• Thermals
• Synthetic radar simulations

1. Sat Risk

   The Sat-Risk project, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), has the goal of ‘developing a real-time system to forecast radiation exposure to satellites for a range of different orbits, and quantify the risk of damage or degradation‘.

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