Former MPhil/PhD Students

Following is a list of successful MPhil/PhD students and their thesis title

Lee Siddons

Supervisor: Prof. L. Wyatt
(now working at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory on data assimilation problems)

Data assimilation of HF Radar data into coastal wave models

Andrea Kerekes

Supervisor: Prof. R. von Fay-Siebenburgen

Andrea Kerekes thesis: Random effects on the solar f-mode

Dr Andrew Middleditch

February 2006, supervisor: Prof. L. Wyatt
(now working at Seaview Sensing Ltd.)

Spectral Analysis in High frequency Radar Oceanography

Dr. Jason Baxter

December 2006, supervisor: Dr. E. Winstanley
(Now working at Sheffield Hallam University)

Thesis: Existence and stability of solitons and black holes in su(N)
Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with a negative cosmological constant.

Dr. Phil Young

December 2006, supervisor: Dr. E. Winstanley

Thesis: Aspects of classical and semi-classical black holes in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter space

Indrani Roy

October 2006, Supervisor: Prof. R. von Fay-Siebenburgen
(Now at Imperial College, London as a Research Student)

MPhil thesis title: Magneto-acoustic gravity surface wave with parallel propagation with flow

Dr. Maria Dymova

September 2006, Supervisor: Prof M.S. Ruderman
(Now: PDRA at Centre for Plasma-Astrophysics, Katholieke Universitet Leuven (Belgium))

Thesis: Coronal Seismology: A novel approach of exploring the solar atmosphere

Dr. David Simpson

December 2005, Supervisors: Profs M. S. Ruderman, R. von Fay-Siebenburgen
(Now Dept. of Work and Pensions, Sheffield).

Thesis title: Absolute and convective instability of circularly polarized Alfven waves

Dr. Dean Morgan

November 2005, Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth Winstanley
(Now a Post-doc in the Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield)

Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and High-Energy Neutrinos

Dr Stuart James

June 2004, Supervisor: Prof R. von Fay-Siebenburgen

Thesis: Solar Spicules: A unique approach to modelling the solar atmosphere

Dr Miguel Stone Terra Homem

May 2004, Supervisor : Prof R. von Fay-Siebenburgen
(Now at ESA, Germany)

Thesis: Steady State MHD: Waves and Instabilities

Dr Youra Taroyan

Oct 2003, Supervisor : Prof R. von Fay-Siebenburgen
Thesis title : MHD Waves and Resonant Interactions in Steady State
(Now PDRA at University of Sheffield)

Dr Chris Wilford

July 2002, Supervisor: Prof R J Moffett and Dr J M Rees
Thesis: Mathematical Studies of the Terrestrial Ionosphere: Helium Ion Behaviour