Richard Morton

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I am a UKRI Future Leader Fellow at Northumbria University, interested in all things celestial! I have the wonderful job of browsing beautiful images of the Sun from satellites and telescopes. This is with a view to understand how energy is transferred through stars atmospheres in order to power the hot chromospheres, coronae and stellar winds. My research group work on analaysing data from new and unique instruments that can provide interesting insights into magnetohydrodynamic waves in the Sun's atmosphere, in particular working with the Coronal MultiChannel Polarimeter, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, & Solar Orbiter.

I graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2008 with a MPHYS Mathematics and Physics degree and remained at Sheffield to complete my PhD in Applied Mathematics/Solar Physics. I accepted my first position as a research scientist there. In 2012 I was appointed as Anniversary Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University and I was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship in June 2014 to continue my research.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    UKR Future Leader Fellow, Northumbria University, Newcastle
  • 2020–present
    Associate professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
  • 2014–2017
    Leverhulme Trust Fellow, Northumbria University, Newcastle
  • 2012–2014
    Anniversary Research Fellow, Northumbria University, Newcastle
  • 2011–2012
    Postdoctoral research associate, Sheffield University

Education

  • 2011 
    Sheffield University, PhD

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    Revealing the Pattern of Solar Alfvenic Waves
    Role:
    Principle Investigator
    Funding Source:
    UKRI
  • 2014
    The Solar Regulator
    Role:
    Principle Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Leverhulme Trust

Professional Memberships

  • Royal Astronomical Society
  • Institute of Physics

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