Our deadline for expressions of interest in fellowships (STFC Ernest Rutherford, Royal Society URF, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships) at QMUL is 8 July this year. Please get in touch asap if interested. qmul.ac.uk/spcs/astro/abo… seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cfp/news/4748/… seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cfp/news/4749/…

Congratualtions Jesse!

Our AGU (American Geophysical Union) session on "Turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and non-thermal particles in space plasma" is open for abstract submissions. Deadline: 31 July 2024 23:59 EDT. #AGU24 #AGU2024 agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

New preprint on @arXiv from QMUL Space & Astrophysical Plasma Physics PhD student Jack McIntyre, providing evidence from #ParkerSolarProbe for the existence of the helicity barrier in the solar wind, which may alter how turbulence heats space and astrophysical plasmas arxiv.org/abs/2407.10815

If anyone's interested in applying for a RAS Fellowship to work in QMUL Space & Astrophysical Plasma Physics please get in touch ras.ac.uk/awards-and-gra…

Davide Manzini presents his work on energy partition in turbulent heating at this year's MIST meeting in Birmingham

Myself and QMUL Space & Astrophysical Plasma Physics are now on Bluesky: @chkchen.bsky.social and @qmspaceplasma.bsky.social, feel free to follow there if you like.

Congratulations to Dr Jack McIntyre who passed his PhD viva today, examined by Dr Lorenzo Matteini and Dr Heli Hietala, and supervised by Christopher Chen

Congratulations to Dr Jack McIntyre for a successful PhD viva. Bottle number two is now in the collection!

Today I asked my class to produce an aesthetically pleasing image of trajectories by using their knowledge of particle motion in electromagnetic fields combined with their collective artistic sensibility. Here’s the result! (using spacephysics.ucla.edu)

The next round of UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships is open. If anyone is interested in applying at QMUL Space & Astrophysical Plasma Physics, please get in touch. Our internal deadline is 17 March, so make sure to get in touch well before then to discuss an application. #UKRIFLF ukri.org/opportunity/fu…

We are offering summer internship placements for undergraduate students this year, including various topics in space plasma physics. Application deadline 27 March. More details here: qmul.ac.uk/spcs/astro/tea…

Shiladittya Mondal presents his work on near-Sun electron scale turbulence at the Parker Four conference

Congratulations to Florian Koller for being awarded a European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship to continue working in the QMUL Space & Astrophysical Plasma Physics group qmul.ac.uk/spcs/news-an..…

If anyone's interested in applying for a MSCA Fellowship in QMUL Space & Astrophysical Plasma Physics please let me know asap (to meet our internal deadlines) …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdo…

Our deadline for expressions of interest in fellowships (STFC Ernest Rutherford, Royal Society URF, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships) at QMUL is 8 July this year. Please get in touch if interested. qmul.ac.uk/spcs/astro/abo…

New AGU Space Weather Journal paper from Pauline Simon at QMUL Space & Astrophysical Plasma Physics, studying ensemble averaging for solar wind forecasting, including a new method to improve predictions of the spectral (multi-scale) nature of the solar wind, co-authors Christopher Chen, M. Owens, C. Sishtla agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

Jack McIntyre's paper on PSP measurements of the helicity barrier is now published in Physical Review X

Our AGU (American Geophysical Union) session on "Turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and non-thermal particles in space plasmas" is open for abstract submissions. Deadline: 30 July 2025 (23:59 EDT/03:59 UTC). #AGU25 #AGU2025 agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prel…