Professor Andrew Hillier

My research interests are based in Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Though most of this work is performed in the context of the solar atmosphere, I also work in more fundamental MHD areas. I work to combine analytic results with simulations and analyse of observations to give a balanced understanding of the dynamics we can observe in the solar atmosphere. I have worked a lot of the beautiful flows, instabilities and waves that can be seen in solar prominences in the observations by the Hinode Satellite. I am also working on how the low ionisation, due to the cool temperatures of many astrophysical systems, changes dynamics in MHD and on more fundamental fluid dynamics problems involving fluid mixing by instabilities. Please see my publications list for my resent results in these areas. 

 

A key part of my research is my role as PI for the Solar Atmospheric Modelling Suite (SAMS for short) project. In this project, joint with researchers at Cambridge, Sheffield and Warwick, we will be developing the next generation modelling tool for the solar atmosphere. This project was funded by STFC as a flagship project for their new Large Award scheme.

If you are interested in doing a Ph.D. or a postdoc in any of the above areas please email me directly. For self-funded students I offer specific projects in partially ionised MHD and in turbulent mixing in MHD.