Professor Silvia Dalla

Prof Dalla is part of the Solar Physics group of the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute and her research focuses on large energy release events on the Sun called solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections. She carries out analysis of measurements of solar energetic particles taken by spacecraft and is also involved in computer simulations of their propagation from the Sun to regions near the Earth. This work has applications in Space Weather forecasting. Her research involves analysis of data from spacecraft such as ESA's Solar Orbiter and NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Silvia contributes to teaching in the Astronomy online learning and Physics programmes. 

Silvia Dalla joined us in 2007 after having held post-doctoral research appointments at Imperial College London and the University of Manchester. Her research has received funding from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the European Union. She has served on Royal Astronomical Society Award panels and she is a member of the UK Space Agency Solar Missions Post Launch Support Committee. She is a co-investigator on the NASA IMAP mission.