Professor David Burgess

Teaching

Teaching

Advisees: Please contact me by email to arrange meetings if you have any questions.

Research

Research Interests:

See David Burgess’ research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Supervision

PhD Projects

Research areas available for PhD study include: solar wind plasma turbulence; shocks in collisionless plasmas, including the Earth’s bow shock and other heliospheric shocks; particle acceleration. Most projects involve using numerical self-consistent particle simulations, but data analysis work using spacecraft data is also possible.

The projects deal with how to apply fundamental properties of plasmas - which can exhibit a vast range of complex behaviour - to space and astrophysical situations. The research field relies on results and collaborations within international space missions.

Current PhD projects include "Effects of reconnection in turbulence" and "Spacecraft thruster effects for Solar Probe Plus."

Possible future projects include:

• Kinetic dissipation of turbulence in 3D
• Electron acceleration at shocks
• Particle acceleration and nonlinear waves at the Quasi-parallel shock
• Interstellar pick-up ions and waves in the solar wind

This list is not exhaustive! Please contact me for further details about these or other possible projects. See here for application details.

This is not an exhaustive list and I would be happy to discuss other project possibilities.