Lyndsay Fletcher

Last updated

Lyndsay Fletcher

FRSE
Born (1968-12-03) 3 December 1968 (age 54)[ citation needed ]
Education Bellahouston Academy
Alma mater University of Glasgow (BSc, PhD)
Awards RAS Harold Jeffreys Lecturer 2011
Scientific career
Fields astrophysics
solar physics
solar flares
Institutions University of Glasgow
European Space Agency
Utrecht University
Lockheed Martin
Thesis H impact polarization as a solar and astrophysical particle diagnostic  (1993)
Website www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/staff/lyndsayfletcher and https://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/?p=123

Lyndsay Fletcher (born 1968) FRSE is a Scottish astrophysicist at the University of Glasgow [1] who specialises in solar flares. [2]

Contents

Early life and education

Fletcher attended Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow, and credits her high school physics teacher there with her enjoyment of physics. [3] She studied physics and astronomy at the University of Glasgow and graduated in 1989. [4] [5] She remained there for her graduate studies, earning a PhD in 1993. [4] [5]

Research and career

In 1993 Fletcher joined Utrecht University as a postdoctoral researcher. [5] She was then appointed a research fellow at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk in 1996, where she remained for two years working on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. [5]

In 1998 she joined Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto, California, using the Yohkoh and TRACE satellites to study flares and plasma jets from the sun. [3] [6] [7] [8] [9] She returned to Glasgow in 2000, becoming a lecturer later that year and a Professor in 2014. [2] She is an authority on solar flares, [10] [11] notably espousing the role of Alfvénic transport of energy. [12] In 2015 she was appointed the President of the International Astronomical Union Commission E2 on Solar Activity. [13] Between 2014 and 2016 she led the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project F-CHROMA, which included the citizen science project F-HUNTERS. [14] [15] She co-edited the book Solar and Stellar Flares, in 2017. [1] [16]

Public service

Fletcher was a member of the Royal Astronomical Society council from 2006 to 2009. [17] In 2011 she became the Geophysics Secretary, and in 2017 the Senior Secretary. [17] Fletcher has campaigned for diversity in physics [18] and supports the Institute of Physics Juno campaign. [19] [20] She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2017. [21] [22] She serves on the Science Working group for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. She is an advisor for the Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics at the University of Oslo and for the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics. [23] Fletcher has spoken at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, Glasgow Science Centre, British Astronomical Association and the Institute of Physics in Scotland. [24]

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include:

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Royal Astronomical Society</span> British learned society and charity

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society and charity that encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science. Its headquarters are in Burlington House, on Piccadilly in London. The society has over 4,000 members ("Fellows"), most of them professional researchers or postgraduate students. Around a quarter of Fellows live outside the UK.

Annette Mairi Nelson Ferguson FRSE is a Scottish observational astrophysicist who specialises in the area of galaxy evolution. She is a professor at the Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh, and holds the Personal Chair in Observational Astrophysics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Campbell Brown</span> Scottish astronomer (1947–2019)

John Campbell Brown was a Scottish astronomer who worked primarily in solar physics. He held the posts of Astronomer Royal for Scotland, the Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, and honorary professorships at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen.

Eric Ronald Priest is Emeritus Professor at St Andrews University, where he previously held the Gregory Chair of Mathematics and a Bishop Wardlaw Professorship.

Sir James Hough is a British physicist and an international leader in the search for gravitational waves.

Andrew Christopher Fabian is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He was Director of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2018. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge from 1982 to 2013, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. He served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michele Dougherty</span> Space physicist at Imperial College London

Michele Karen Dougherty is a Professor of Space Physics at Imperial College London. She is leading unmanned exploratory missions to Saturn and Jupiter and is Principal Investigator for J-MAG – a magnetometer for the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, due for launch in April 2023.

Christine Tullis Hunter Davies is a professor of Physics at the University of Glasgow.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catherine Heymans</span> British astrophysicist

Catherine Heymans is a British astrophysicist, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and a professor at the University of Edinburgh based at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louise Harra</span> British physicist

Louise Harra is a Northern Irish physicist, born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. She is the Director of the World Radiation Centre of the Physical Meteorological Observatory in Davos (PMOD/WRC) and affiliated professor at the Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics of ETH Zurich.

Andrew Collier Cameron is a British astronomer specialising in the discovery and characterisation of exoplanets. He is a founding co-investigator of the WASP project and served as the head of the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of St Andrews between 2012 and 2015 where he is currently a professor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sheila Rowan (physicist)</span> Professor of Physics, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government

Sheila Rowan is a Scottish physicist and academic, who is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and director of its Institute for Gravitational Research since 2009. She is known for her work in advancing the detection of gravitation waves. In 2016, Rowan was appointed the (part-time) Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government.

Moira Mary Jardine is a British astrophysicist with an interest in young stars, particularly the structure of their magnetic fields and coronae, and the mechanisms by which they interact with their disks and planets. She was promoted to a Personal Chair in 2012, making her the first female professor of Physics at the University of St Andrews.

Ineke De Moortel is a Belgian applied mathematician in Scotland, where she is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of St Andrews, director of research in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at St Andrews, and president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Her research concerns the computational and mathematical modelling of solar physics, and particularly of the sun's corona.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emma Bunce</span> British physicist

Emma J. Bunce is a British space physicist and Professor of Planetary Plasma Physics at the University of Leicester. She holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Her research is on the magnetospheres of Saturn and Jupiter. She is principal investigator (PI) of the MIXS instrument on BepiColombo, was deputy lead on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer proposal, and co-investigator on the Cassini–Huygens mission.

Philippa K. Browning is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. She specialises in the mathematical modelling of fusion plasmas.

Douglas Walter Noble Stibbs FRSE FRAS (1919–2010) was a 20th century Australian astronomer and astrophysicist, remembered for his work at St Andrews University where he held the Napier Chair in Astronomy for 30 years. The Prof Walter Stibbs Lectures at Sydney University are named in his honour.

Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi is a Hungarian solar scientist and professor of physics at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory of University College London. She also maintains affiliations with Solar and Stellar Activity Research Team at Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Space Research Laboratory (LESIA) of Paris Observatory. She has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Solar Physics since 2005 and has served in leadership roles within the International Astronomical Union.

Sarah Anna Matthews is a British physicist. She is professor and head of solar physics at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL). She is also chairperson of UK Solar Physics.

Norna Robertson is a lead scientist at LIGO at California Institute of Technology, and professor of experimental physics at the University of Glasgow. Her career has focused on experimental research into suspension systems and instrumentation to achieve the detection of gravitational waves.

References

  1. 1 2 Lyndsay Fletcher publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 "Prof Lyndsay Fletcher". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Lyndsay Fletcher". multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Professor Lyndsay Fletcher CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Merseyside Astronomy Day 21st March 2009: Lyndsay Fletcher". astro.ljmu.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  6. ↑ Anon (2018). "Lyndsay Fletcher - Solar Guides - Sun|trek". suntrek.org. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Lyndsay Fletcher". solar.bnsc.rl.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "Lyndsay Fletcher Bio". passporttoknowledge.com. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  9. ↑ Alexander, David; Fletcher, Lyndsay (1999). "High-resolution Observations of Plasma Jets in the Solar Corona". Solar Physics. 190 (1/2): 167–184. Bibcode:1999SoPh..190..167A. doi:10.1023/a:1005213826793. ISSN   0038-0938. S2CID   117001613.
  10. ↑ Anon (2018). "Living with a Star with Professor Lyndsay Fletcher at Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow South Side | What's On Glasgow". whatsonglasgow.co.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  11. ↑ Fletcher, Lyndsay; Dennis, Brian R.; Hudson, Hugh S.; Krucker, Sam; Phillips, Ken; Veronig, Astrid; Battaglia, Marina; Bone, Laura; Caspi, Amir (2011). "An Observational Overview of Solar Flares". Space Science Reviews. 159 (1–4): 19–106. arXiv: 1109.5932 . Bibcode:2011SSRv..159...19F. doi:10.1007/s11214-010-9701-8. ISSN   0038-6308. S2CID   21203102.
  12. ↑ Fletcher, Lyndsay; Hudson, Hugh (2008). "Impulsive Phase Flare Energy Transport by Large-Scale Alfvén Waves and the Electron Acceleration Problem". Astrophysical Journal. 675 (2): 1645. arXiv: 0712.3452 . Bibcode:2008ApJ...675.1645F. doi:10.1086/527044. S2CID   55835420.
  13. ↑ "Lyndsay Fletcher". iau.org. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "People - F-CHROMA". fchroma.org. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  15. ↑ Fletcher, Lyndsay; Berlicki, Arkadiusz; Awasthi, Arun Kumar; Gronkiewicz, Dominik (2016). "Recruiting flare hunters for citizen science". Astronomy & Geophysics. 57 (6): 6.21–6.23. Bibcode:2016A&G....57f6.21F. doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atw220. ISSN   1366-8781.
  16. ↑ Fletcher, Lyndsay (2017). Solar and Stellar Flares - Observations, Simulations, and Synergies. Springer. ISBN   9789402409345.
  17. 1 2 "Prof. Lyndsay Fletcher - Senior Secretary". ras.ac.uk. Royal Astronomical Society . Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  18. ↑ "Prof Lyndsay Fletcher - insight by PhySoc". www.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  19. ↑ "Course: Project Juno". my.supa.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  20. ↑ Anon (2018). "Champions extol the virtues of Juno". iop.org. London: Institute of Physics . Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  21. ↑ Fletcher, Lyndsay (2016), "Solar Flares and Superflares", youtube.com, retrieved 26 September 2018
  22. 1 2 "Professor Lyndsay Fletcher FRSE". rse.org.uk. Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh . Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  23. ↑ "Prof. Lyndsay Fletcher". academia-net.org. Academia Net. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  24. ↑ "Cosmic Threats to Earth Public Lecture Event" (PDF). Institute of Physics. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  25. ↑ "Elite shortlist shines a light on inspiring work across the country". heraldscotland.com. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  26. ↑ "University of Glasgow - University news - Suffrage Science awards for Glasgow physicists". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  27. ↑ "News". hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  28. ↑ Anon (2011). "Dr Lyndsay Fletcher: Harold Jeffreys Lecture". Astronomy & Geophysics. 52 (1). doi:10.1111/j.1468-4004.2011.52145_11.x. ISSN   1468-4004.
  29. ↑ Clarke, David (2013). Reflections on the Astronomy of Glasgow. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN   9780748678921.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.