Former Group Members

This is an incomplete list of former group members and, if known, their current institution. If you have further information or want to see your own name on this list contact CJ Donnelly.

Dr. Adrian Barker
Dr. Adrian Barker
Research Interests:
I am interested in the orbital evolution of short period extrasolar planets; particularly to any possible magnetic and/or tidal interactions between these planets and their host stars.
PhD Thesis: Tidal interactions between planets and stars
Current Institution: Northwestern
Personal Website: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~bav577/
Dr Aurélien Crida
Dr Aurélien Crida
Research Interests:
Planetary Migration; Planet Formation; Exoplanets; Protoplanetary Discs
Current Institution: Nice
Personal Website: https://www.oca.eu/crida/index.html
Dr Jonathan Dawes
Dr Jonathan Dawes
Research Interests:
Nonlinear dynamics, symmetric bifurcation theory, pattern formation, applications.
Current Institution: University of Bath
Personal Website: http://people.bath.ac.uk/jhpd20/
Dr Sebastien Fromang
Current Institution: Service d'Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France
Personal Website: http://sebastien.fromang.free.fr/index.html
Dr Pascale Garaud
Current Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Personal Website: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~pgaraud
Dr Steve Houghton
Current Institution: University of Leeds
Personal Website: http://www.stevehoughton.co.uk/
Dr Laurène Jouve
Dr Laurène Jouve
Research Interests:
MHD Simulations, Solar and Stellar Dynamos, Magnetix Flux Emergence
Current Institution: Toulouse
Dr Zoe Leinhardt
Dr Zoe Leinhardt
Research Interests:
My research interests focus on the formation and evolution of planets and small bodies, such as asteroids and comets through the use of numerical simulations.
Current Institution: University of Bristol
Personal Website: http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/zoe/Zoe/Welcome.html
Dr Geoffroy Lesur
Dr Geoffroy Lesur
Research Interests:
I'm interested in turbulence in astrophysical accretion discs, astrophysical fluid simulations and planet formation processes.
Current Institution: Grenoble
Personal Website: http://ipag.osug.fr/~glesur/
Dr Mark Miesch
Current Institution: High Altitude Observatory
Personal Website: http://www.hao.ucar.edu/people/photo_dir/miesch.php
Dr Francois Rincon
Current Institution: Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees
Personal Website: http://www.francois-rincon.org/
Professor Alastair Rucklidge
Current Institution: University of Leeds
Personal Website: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~alastair/
Dr Lara Silvers
Dr Lara Silvers
Current Institution: City University London
Personal Website: http://www.city.ac.uk/sems/our%20staff/maths/Lara.html
Professor Jim Stone
Current Institution: Princeton University
Personal Website: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~jstone
Professor Steve Tobias
Current Institution: University of Leeds
Personal Website: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~smt/

Former Students

Dr Michal Branicki
Current Institution: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Personal Website: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~branicki/mb_home/Home.html
Dr. Barbara Ferreira
Dr. Barbara Ferreira
Research Interests:
Accretion discs around black holes
PhD Thesis: Variability of black-hole accretion discs: a theoretical study
Current Institution: European Geosciences Union
Dr. Min-Kai Lin
Dr. Min-Kai Lin
Research Interests:
Planetary migration driven by co-orbital flows, migration in self-gravitating discs.
PhD Thesis: Dynamical instabilities in disc-planet interactions
Current Institution: CITA - University of Toronto
Personal Website: http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~mklin924/
Dr. Peter Mann
Research Interests:
Mean field dynamos based on sunspots emergent from the solar tachocline.
PhD Thesis: Nonlinear flux transport dynamos
Current Institution: (not recorded)
Dr Claire Postlethwaite
Current Institution: University of Auckland
Personal Website: http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~claire/index.html
Dr. Hanno Rein
Dr. Hanno Rein
Research Interests:
I am interested in planet formation, accretion discs, turbulence and numerics.
PhD Thesis: The effects of stochastic forces on the evolution of planetary systems and Saturn's rings
Current Institution: IAS, Princeton
Personal Website: http://sns.ias.edu/~rein/
Dr. Katy Richardson
Dr. Katy Richardson
Research Interests:
My research is on fluctuations in mean field dynamos, I am also interested in Sunspots and the Solar dynamo.
Current Institution: The Met Office
Dr. Mark Rosin
Dr. Mark Rosin
Research Interests:
I work on weakly magnetised plasmas, specifically on how instabilities in these plasmas affect the transport properties in galaxy clusters.
PhD Thesis: Instabilities and transport in magnetized plasmas
Current Institution: UCLA
Personal Website: http://damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/msr35/
Dr Neil Roxburgh
Current Institution: (not recorded)
Dr Mike Tildesley
Current Institution: University of Warwick
Personal Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/michael_tildesley/
Dr. Tsung-Lung Long Tsai
Dr. Toby Wood
Dr. Toby Wood
PhD Thesis: The solar tachocline: a self-consistent model of magnetic confinement
Current Institution: UCSC
Personal Website: http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~tsw25/
Dr. Tobias Heinemann
PhD Thesis: The dynamics of spiral density waves in turbulent accretion discs
Current Institution: IAS, Princeton
Dr Joel Miller
Current Institution: University of British Columbia
Personal Website: http://www.mathmodeling.cdc.ubc.ca/members_joel.htm
Dr Jennifer Siggers
Current Institution: Imperial College London
Personal Website: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.siggers