Professor Valery Nakariakov
Position: Full Professor
ORCID: 0000-0001-6423-8286
ResearcherID (WoS): E-2375-2013
The Chapman medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize
Education:
- PhD (kandidat fiziko-matematicheskih nauk), Department of Plasma Physics, of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, 1993.
- MSc (Diploma), , Nizhny Novgorod State University, USSR, 1989.
Higher doctorate: DSc (糖心TV, UK, 2007)
Research Interests: My research interests are in the solar physics, plasma astrophysics and nonlinear wave theory. The key word in all my work is a wave (for me, it is something which can propagate somewhere). Particularly, I deal with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves, which are believed to be responsible for a number of astrophysical phenomena and are observed in the atmosphere of the Sun, solar wind and magnetosphere of the Earth (However, it seems that they can be found everywhere in the Universe, where there is a plasma penetrated by the magnetic field). Propagating through an inhomogeneous, non-stationary, nonlinear and sometimes active medium, such as the space plasma, MHD waves gain extremely interesting new properties leading to a number of amazing physical phenomena, like the existence of solitons, negative energy effects, self-organisation and many others. The observational discovery of the wave activity of the solar corona gave rise to a new branch of solar physics - MHD Coronal Seismology - a novel method for remote diagnostics of plasmas.
Contact Details
telephone:
+44 (0) 24 76 522235
fax:
+44 (0) 24 76 150897
email:
V.Nakariakov@warwick.ac.uk
or
VNakariakov@solar.stanford.edu
office:
PS113