After a wonderful year of living in Munich and working at the Institute for Plasma Physics there, I decided to return to my first love: dense, magnetised plasmas. Since April 1st I’ve been working again as a post doc at Imperial College London, in the MAGPIE Group.
The Aurora is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the solar system, and it is intrinsically linked to an elegant and ubiquitous process called Magnetic Reconnection.
Experiments on MAGPIE are expensive in terms of time and equipment – at best we can achieve one experiment a…
I’ve already done some preliminary experiments on passing a large electrical current through some pencil leads to turn them into…
My previous post achieved unprecedented popularity, probably due to a quirk of the Facebook newsfeed deciding it was high priority that…
I’ve spent the last week and a bit helping to fix one of the four capacitor banks in MAGPIE. It’s…
MAGPIE is currently undergoing maintenance as the college install new lighting to replace the ageing fluorescent tubes we currently have.…
This morning, at 10:30 am, I fired my first shot on MAGPIE. I wrote about the goals of this first series…
You’ve probably tried to capture the perfect photo of someone running or jumping, only to miss the action by a…