Mathew Owens

Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London

Schools

  • Imperial College London

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Biography

Imperial College London

Research interests:

  • The heliospheric magnetic field
  • The source of the slow solar wind
  • Empirical and numerical space-weather forecasting
  • Reconstructions of long-term solar variability
  • Long-term trends in thunderstorm occurrence
  • More information can be found here. A list of publications is available here.

Externally funded research projects:

  • Current: What determines the open solar magnetic flux? (STFC funded)
  • Current: Solar wind forecasting from L5 (ESA funded)
  • Current: Space Weather Empirical Ensemble Package (STFC SWIMMR)
  • Finished: Creation/destruction of heliospheric magnetic flux (STFC funded)
  • Finished: Solar wind data assimilation (NERC funded)
  • Finished: Space Weather Impact on Ground-based Systems (NERC funded)
  • Finished: Driving Space Weather forecasts with real data (NERC funded)
  • Finished: The heliosphere and space weather under space-climate change (STFC funded)
  • Finished: Geomagnetic, sunspot and cosmogenic nuclide reconstructions of the solar magnetic field (Leverhulme funded)

Current postdoctoral & graduate student supervision

  • Anna-Marie Frost. Studying solar wind formation through in situ observations.
  • Lauren James. Studying the evolution of coronal mass ejections in the heliosphere. Co-supervised with Prof Chris Scott
  • Harriet Turner. Studying solar wind forecasting through data assimilation.
  • Sarah Watson. Solar Wind Interactions with Planets and Minor Planetary Bodies. Co-supervised with Prof Chris Scott
  • Dr Luke Barnard Working on solar wind modeling and assimilation of Heliospheric Imager data.
  • Dr Stephanie Yardley Working on sources of slow solar wind.

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