• Senior Lecturer in Physics, 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.

My additional research for student projects include off world living, and animal magnetosense.

• 2017–present Senior lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
• 2015–2016 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Leicester
• 2012–2014 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Otago
• 2011–2012 Postdoctoral associate, University of St Andrews
• 2010–2011 Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Cancer Research

• 2010 University of Wales, Aberystwyth, PhD: Space Physics
• 2006 University of Leicester, MPhys: Physics with Space Science and Technology

• 2022 Variability of ionospheric plasma: results from the ESA swarm mission, Advances in Space Research
• 2022 Electron density fluctuations from Swarm as a proxy for ground-based scintillation data: A statistical perspective, Advances in Space Research
• 2016 A model providing long-term data sets of energetic electron precipitation during geomagnetic storms, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
• 2016 Modeling magnetospheric X-ray emission from solar wind charge exchange with verification from XMM-Newton observations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
• 2016 Solar Wind Charge Exchange Efficiency: empirical and experimental O7, O8 and O/H values, Geophysical Research Letters
• 2015 An examination of lightning flash rate as a predictor of tropical cyclone winds, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
• 2015 Ethnic differences in Otitis Media and Grommet insertion among New Zealand children aged 0-14 years, New Zealand Medical Journal
• 2014 Characteristics of precipitating energetic electron fluxes relative to the plasmapause, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
• 2014 The effects and correction of the geometric factor for the POES/MEPED electron flux instrument using a multi-satellite comparison, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
• 2013 Determining the spectra of radiation belt electron losses: Fitting DEMETER electron flux observations for typical and storm times, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
• 2012 The trans-terminator ion flow at Venus at solar minimum, Planetary and Space Science
• 2012 Propagating disturbances in coronal loops: A detailed analysis of propagation speeds, Solar Physics
• 2010 Venusian bow shock as seen by the ASPERA-4 IMA instrument on Venus Express, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
• 2010 Transient structures and stream interaction regions in the solar wind: EISCAT interplanetary scintillation, STEREO HI observations and Venus Express ASPERA-4 in-situ measurements, Solar Physics
• 2010 In-situ observations of a co-rotating interaction region at Venus identified by IPS and STEREO, Solar Physics
• 2009 A solar storm observed from the Sun to Venus using the STEREO, Venus Express and MESSENGER spacecraft, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

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