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Professor David Riley

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Professor David Riley

Professor David Riley

School of Mathematics and Physics

Professor Riley's main interests are in warm dense matter, laser plasmas and low temperature atmospheric plasmas. He has, in the past, developed experiments on X-ray scattering from warm dense matter and is currently working on experiments to explore continuum lowering and XUV absorption in warm dense matter.

Recently, he has started to work on photo-ionized plasmas as laboratory analogues to astrophysical systems. He has published over 120 papers and has had success in attracting funding from UK Research Councils.

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  • D.Riley@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3500

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Fast electron propagation in laser-plasmas
  • Atmospheric plasma jets
  • Laboratory astrophysics

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Line identifications for heavy elements of importance in kilonova modelling

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Research students

PhD Title X-ray and XUV probing of Warm Dense Matter
Country UK
   
PhD Title  K-edge shifts in shock compressed matter
Country  UK
   
PhD Title  UK
Country Northern Ireland
   

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Thomson Scattering from Technological Plasmas
Country Macedonia
Current Position Winner of EPS thesis prize. Now design engineer at ASML, Veldoven, Netherlands
   
PhD Title  X-ray spectroscopic studies of intense laser interaction with matter
Country  Japan 
Current Position Researcher at XFEL, Hamburg
   
PhD Title  Simulations of X-ray Thomson scattering from warm dense matter
Country Pakistan
Current Position Associate Professor, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Science 


 


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