Alexander A. Schekochihin

Professor of Theoretical Physics and Fellow of Merton College

 

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Theoretical Astrophysics and Plasma Physics
50.06 Beecroft Building
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU

Tel. +44 (0)7766 138 996 mobile
Tel. +44 (0)1865 273 980 office
Tel. +44 (0)1865 273 996 subdept administrator (Mrs Michelle Jose)
E-mail
alex.schekochihin at physics.ox.ac.uk

 

College office: Grove 1.8, Merton College, Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD
Tel. in College: +44 (0)1865 286 501
Porter's Lodge: +44 (0)1865 276 310

I am also
Visiting Professor in Plasma Physics, Imperial College London


2023 DPhil projects in plasma physics and astrophysics (including "laboratory astrophysics" a.k.a. laser plasmas)

PUBLICATIONS
(see also Google Scholar, NASA ADS)

JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS

Oxford Plasma Theory Seminars MT-2023
The Occam Lecture @Merton

TEACHING/LECTURE NOTES

 

"ANY PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY"

 

RESEARCH GROUP & COLLABORATORS:

  • DPhil students:
    • Will Clarke (Univ; co-supervisors Prof Michael Barnes & Dr Colin Roach, UKAEA)
    • Robbie Ewart (Balliol)
    • Michael Nastac (St John's; co-supervisor Prof Michael Barnes)
    • Leonard-Petru Turica (Univ; co-supervisor Dr Anthony Field, UKAEA)
    • Yujia Zhang (St Edmund's Hall; co-supervisor Prof Michael Barnes)
  • MMathPhys and summer students:
    • Aneesh Agrawal (Cambridge; co-supervisor Archie Bott)
    • Param Luhadiya (Merton; co-supervisors Plamen Ivanov & Toby Adkins)
    • Agi Wierzchucka (Merton; MMathPhys dissertation from Oct 2023)
  • Postdocs:
    • Dr Barry Ginat (Leverhulme-Peierls Fellow from Oct 2023)
    • Dr Plamen Ivanov (EPSRC PDRA; co-supervisor Prof Michael Barnes)
    • Dr Nicolas Lopez (co-supervisor Prof Gianluca Gregori)
    • Dr Patrick Reichherzer (co-supervisor Prof Gianluca Gregori)
    • Dr Juan Ruiz Ruiz (EPSRC Fellow)
  • Other Oxford collaborators:
    • Prof Michael Barnes (Univ; TP)
    • Dr Archie Bott (Trinity; ALP & TP)
    • Prof Gianluca Gregori (LMH; ALP)
    • Dr Anthony Field, Dr Daniel Kennedy, Dr Michael Fitzgerald, Dr Bhavin Patel, Dr Colin Roach (UKAEA)
    • Dr Michael Hardman, Dr Alsu Sladkomedova (Tokamak Energy Ltd)
    • Prof Dmitri Uzdensky (TP, from September 2024)
  • Current/recent external collaborators:
    • Dr Toby Adkins, Dr Romain Meyrand, Dr Jonathan Squire (U of Otago)
    • Prof Steve Cowley, Dr David Hosking, Prof Matt Kunz, Prof Felix Parra, Prof Eliot Quataert (Princeton)
    • Prof Ben Chandran (U of New Hampshire)
    • Dr Eugene Churazov (MPA, Garching)
    • Prof Bill Dorland (U of Maryland)
    • Prof Yohei Kawazura (Tohoku U)
    • Prof Nuno Loureiro (MIT)
    • Dr Francois Rincon (U de Toulouse)
    • Prof Luis Silva (IST Lisbon)
    • Prof Irina Zhuravleva (Chicago)

SEMINARS & CONFERENCES

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Upcoming

Some memorable workshops at Wolfgang Pauli Institute in Vienna and other places (including downloads of talks):


Quaint stuff (photos)

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