Dr. Claire Foullon
Position: Senior Research Fellow - STFC Advanced Fellow in Heliophysics -
Supervision:
- Warwick-Monash joint PhD research in 'Dynamics of solar coronal eruptions' (starting Oct. 2013/Feb.2014)
- PhD project on 'Multi-spacecraft investigations of solar and heliospheric plasmas' (Oct. 2012)
Summer projects: No plans for 2013. For external opportunities, visit Space-at-Warwick network.
Past Teaching:
- 2012: STFC Advanced Summer School Lecture "Solar Wind and Heliosphere: Modern Research Frontiers"
- 2010: PX120 Electricity & Magnetism (weeks 6-10 year 2010-11)
Departmental Activities: Physics Pulse Champion.
Research Interests:
- Wave phenomena and magnetism in astrophysical and space plasma
- Remote and in-situ multi-spacecraft data analysis of solar-terrestrial plasmas
- Space weather: theory and applications
In the News:
- Knowle Astronomical Society Meeting Lecture [Flowing from the Sun: Modern Views of Heliospheric Research] (2012)
- Research Staff Profile [Warwick Learning and Development Centre] (2011)
- STFC Advanced Fellowship [Warwick People] (2011)
- New images show cloud exploding from Sun ripples like clouds on Earth [Press Release] [UKSP Nugget] [Nature Physics Research Highlight] (2011)
- Kelvin-Helmholtz waves and the magnetosphere [Cluster Education and Public Outreach videos] (2010)
- Multi-spacecraft study of the Heliospheric Current Sheet [2008 Nuffield Foundation summer student Nick Wardle] (2009)
- RHESSI and quasi-periodic pulsations [RHESSI Science Nugget] (2005)
- Space weather and manned Mars mission [Press Release] [National Geographic News] [Astronomy Now, Oct. 2005 Issue, p.15] (2005)
- EU's Marie Curie Actions RTDinfo Testimonials [Research: a vocation], [Momentum to move], [Balancing the gender equation] (2003)
Research Projects:
- Hinode Operation Plan (HOP): Long-term dynamics of prominences [HOP 183]
- Cluster Guest Investigator: Magnetopause Boundary Layer [AO]
- ISSI Team Leader: Flow-Driven Instabilities of the Sun-Earth System [ISSI]
Memberships and Affiliations:
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
(RAS) & Member of its Finance Committee. - Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) & Affiliations
- European Geophysical Union (EGU): Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) coordinator Solar-Terrestrial Sciences.
- Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Alumna (external user), Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London
Dr. Claire Foullon
Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics,
Department of Physics,
University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL,
United Kingdom
Office PS1.42
Tel: +44(0)2476 151862
Fax: +44(0)2476 150897
Email: Claire.Foullon[at]warwick.ac.uk
