RAS Research Fellowships Name Institution Research Dates Fundamental Physics with Dr Thomas Collett University of Portsmouth gravitational lensing March 2020 - March 2021 When subduction stops: understanding tectonic process in October 2018 - September Dr Amy Gilligan University of Aberdeen post-subduction settings 2021 Superluminous supernovae: a comprehensive observational & University of Edinburgh/ theoretical study of nature's October 2018 - September Dr Matt Nicholl University of Birmingham brightest fireworks 2021 Accurate Astrophysics for the Next October 2017 - September Dr Elisa Chisari University of Oxford Era of Cosmology 2020 Nature vs Nurture: the effect of Dr Joanna Eberhardt (nee stellar irradiation on atmospheric October 2016 - September Barstow) UCL evolution 2019 Explaining the Onset of Explosive Magnetic Reconnection in the in the Solar Corona & its Links to the Generation of Solar Energetic October 2016 - September Dr Peter Wyper Durham University Particles 2019 Detecting and constraining the Epoch of Reionisation using foreground removal and state-of- October 2015 - December Dr Emma Chapman Imperial College London the-art simulations 2018 Probing solar system processes March 2016 - February Dr Ben Rozitis Open University using extreme asteroids 2019 Precision cosmology of axions and October 2015 - December Dr David J E Marsh Kings College London moduli 2017 Liverpool John Moores Dr Richard Parker University The Origin of the Galactic Field March 2014 - March 2017 Royal Holloway, Deciphering the sedimentary September 2013 - August Dr John Armitage University of London record: tectonic vs climate change 2016 The Goldilocks hypothesis of planetary magnetospheres: discovering a balance between internally- and externally-driven University of Leicester / dynamics at Jupiter, Mercury and March 2013 - February Dr Sarah Badman Lancaster University Saturn 2016 University of The Dynamics of Young Star October 2012 - September Dr Nick Wright Hertfordshire Clusters 2015 Cosmology, Dark Energy Theories (Theoretical, Phenomenolgical, February 2012 - January Dr Baojiu Li University of Durham Numerical & Statistical Studies) 2015 Interaction between Exoplanets and the Winds of their Host Stars (Numerical Modelling & Magnetic October 2011 - September Dr Aline de Almeida Vidotto University of St Andrews Shield) 2014 University College London / University of Energy Release from January 2013 - December Dr Caitriona Jackman Southampton Magnetospheres 2013 University of Cambridge Mapping the Star-Forming History November 2010 - October Dr Benjamin Davies / Liverpool John Moores of Galaxies 2013 High Precision Dark Universe Cosmology with 3D Gravitational January 2011 -September Dr Thomas Kitching University of Edinburgh Lensing 2011.