Group members

Academic staff
	Professor Giles Harrison Giles Harrison is professor of atmospheric physics. His research interests span atmospheric electricity, eclipse meteorology, volcanic plume electrification, solar-terrestrial relationships and novel weather measurements.
	Professor Mike Lockwood Prof. Lockwood has wide-ranging interests in solar-terrestrial physics from the solar corona to the upper atmosphere and in solar influences on global and regional climates. Currently working in constructing a space weather climatology that extends back over the past 400 year using models and analysis of space-age data.
	Professor Chris Scott Chris Scott studies the impact of the Sun and Solar wind on the Earth and its atmosphere. Research topics include; improving space-weather forecasting, the ionospheric enhancement in response to lightning; solar wind influence on lightning rates and long-term changes in the ionosphere. He has also been investigating the response of the ionosphere to solar eclipses.
	Professor Mathew Owens Mathew Owens is Professor of Space Physics. He is primarily interested in the solar wind and its space weather impact.
	Dr Keri Nicoll Dr Keri Nicoll is a NERC Independent Research Fellow investigating the effect of energetic particles on atmospheric processes. Her wide range of research areas include atmospheric electricity, ionisation and aerosol charging processes, instrument development, and airborne measurements from balloons and unmanned aircraft.
	Dr James O’Donoghue Dr James O’Donoghue is a STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow.
	Dr Luke Barnard Dr Luke Barnard is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow focussing on space weather forecasting. He is interested what we can learn about coronal mass ejections and the solar wind from Heliospheric Imager instruments, in particular using data assimilation and citizen science approaches.
Research staff
	Dr Matthew Lang Dr Matthew Lang is a postdoctoral researcher in space weather data assimilation. He works on developing data assimilation schemes for both the ambient solar wind and coronal mass ejections and investigates how this affects the performance of space weather forecasts.
	Dr Chitradeep Saha Dr Chitradeep Saha is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant. He is currently working on long-term solar magnetic activity reconstruction.
PhD students
	Renzo Lam Renzo’s project is titled ‘Probabilistic Assessment of Concurrent Space Weather Phenomena for Extreme Scenario Modelling’ and is supervised by Prof. Mathew Owens and Dr Luke Barnard.
	Sarah Watson Sarah’s project is titled “Solar wind interactions with planetary bodies” and is supervised by Prof. Chris Scott.
	Nathaniel Edward-Inatimi Nathaniel’s project is titled ‘Smarter Ensembles for Space Weather forecasting’ and is supervised by Prof. Mathew Owens and Dr Luke Barnard.
	Dechen Gyeltshen Dechen’s project is titled ‘The dynamics of coronal mass ejections between the Sun and Earth’ and is supervised by Prof. Mathew Owens and Dr Luke Barnard.