Grants

Above £5000

• Study of Solar Coronal Jets - A Novel Insight
  2017-2019
  Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Towards Dynamic Solar Atmospheric Magneto-Siesmology with New Generation Instrumentation
  2017-2018
  Networking, 2 x 5 Day International Team ISSI Workshop
  PI Dr G Verth (CoI Dr R Morton, Northumbria University)

• Numerical Modelling of Wave Based Coronal Heating Using Resistive MHD and Thermal Conductivity
  2016-2018
  Royal Society, Newton Mobility Grant
  CoI Dr V Fedun (CoIs Dr G Verth, PI Dr F Guzman, Instituto de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico)

• STFC Consolidated Grant Support for Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre at the University of Sheffield
  01/04/2015 - 31/03/2018
  STFC
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoI Professor M. S. Ruderman, Dr I Ballai, Dr R Jain, Dr E Kim, Dr V Fedun)

• Instabilities in Partially Ionised Prominence Plasmas
  01/04/14-31/03/18
  Leverhulme Trust International Networking Grant
  PI Dr I Ballai

• Conference Support for the ESPM15 Conference
  15/02/17-15/09/17
  Hungarian Government Conference Support Grant
  PI Dr I Ballai

• THOR Electron Density Sounder Concept and Design Work
  01/04/16-31/03/17
  STFC
  PI Professor M Balikhin

• Cluster Operations 2015-2016
  01/01/15-31/03/17
  STFC
  PI Profressor M Balikhin

• Sun- Earth Connection (SEC) Web-based Interactive Database and Analysis System
  01/10/13-31/03/17
  PhD Studentship for 3.5 years, Sunshine Project
  PI Dr G. Verth

• Collaboration with University of Nanjing, China
  2016-2017
  Sheffield International Mobility Scheme
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs Professor M S Ruderman, Dr V Fedun, Dr C J Nelson, Dr G Verth

• Improving Solar Flare and CME Predictability: A Potential Step Change
  2015-2017
  Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Leverhulme International Networking Grant
  2014-2017
  Dr I Ballai, Professor M S Ruderman

• UTC Submarines
  01/01/16-31/12/16
  Rolls-Royce
  CoI Dr S Pope

• UTC Control and Systems Engineering
  01/01/16-31/12/16
  Rolls-Royce
  PI Dr S Pope

• Cluster Active Archive Extension
  01/01/15-31/12/16
  ESA(European Space Agency)
  PI Professor M Balikhin

• Understanding neural excitation and inhibition: Implications for the interpretation of extracellular field potentials and neurovascular coupling
  1/05/2013 - 30/04/2016
  BBSRC
  PI Y Zheng, J Berwick, A J Kennerley, S A Billings, D Coca, E Milne, P Regreave

• THOR Electron Density Sounder Concept and Design Work
  01/09/15-31/03/16
  STFC
  PI Professor M Balikhin

• Advanced Fluid Dynamics and Applications
  2016
  GIAN (Global Initiative for Academic Networks), Government of India
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Solar Terrestrial and Experimental Plasma Physics Synergy
  2016
  STEPPS
  PI Dr V Fedun (CoIs Drs Dr E Scullion, Northumbria; B Reville, QUB; Prof H. Goedbloed, FOM Institute, Netherland; JG Lunney, TCD, Ireland; G Verth, SU)

• Hardware for Initiation of Observations of the Cracking-Induced Pre-Seismic Geophysical Fields in the UK
  2015-2016
  Royal Society
  PI Dr V Fedun

• Multiplefactor analysis and modelling of ionospheric perturbations'
  2013-2016
  Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme
  PI Dr V Fedun, Co-I Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, Professor M Balikhin, Dr A Rozhnoi, Russian Academy of Sciences

• Computational methods in scientific investigation of space
  2013 - 2016
  ESA (European Space Agency)
  CoI Dr I. Ballai

• PhD studentship for 3.5 years, Sunshine Project, ‘Sun-Earth Connection (SEC) web based interactive database and analysis system
  2013-2016
  CoI Dr V Fedun

• Third UK- Ukraine- Spain Conference on Solar Physics and Space Science
  2015
  EOARD
  PI Dr V Fedun

• Consolidated Grant Support for the Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre
  April 2015
  STFC
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs: Professor M S Ruderman, Dr V Fedun)

• Prediction of Geospace Radiation Environment and Solar Wind Parameters (PROGRESS)
  2015
  EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs: Professor M Balikhin, Dr V Fedun, Tony Arber, Natalya Ganushkina, Bart van der Holst, Vladimir Krasnoselskikh, Michael Liemohn, Yuri Shprits, Simon Walker, Magnus Wik, Peter Wintoft, and Vitaliy Yatsenko)

• Ultimate Control in Semiconductor Lasers
  2013-15
  EPSRC
  CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, Professor R Hogg, Dr R Khamas, S., Dr K Groom

• Study of MHD Waves and Instabilities in Localised Solar Jets
  2014-2015
  Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• System Identification and Information Processing for Complex Systems
  2/1/10 - 30/6/15
  EPSRC
  CoI Professor M Balikhin

• Efficient capture of the dominant periodic orbits underlying turbulent fluid flow
  10/06/2013 – 09/06/2015
  EPSRC, EP/K03636X/1
  PI Dr A P Willis

• Solar and Astrophysical MHD
  01/07/2011 – 01/06/2015
  NSF Hungary
  CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoI Dr K Petrovay Eotvos University Budapest)

• Platform Grant Renewal 'System Identification and Information Processing for Complex Systems'
  04/01/2010 – 03/06/2015
  EPSRC
  PI Professor S A Billings Co-Is V Kadirkamanathan, Z Q Lang, D Coca, M Balikhin, H Wei

• New Generation Solar Magnetoseismology: Opening Avenues in Solar Physics
  01/03/12-28/02/15
  Leverhulme Trust ECF
  PI Dr G Verth

• The Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme 2013 Russia (RFBR)
  2012-2015
  Royal Society
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, Co-I Dr V Fedun

• Cluster Post Launch Support Phase 2
  01/01/14-31/12/14
  STFC
  PI Professor M Balikhin (CoI Dr S Pope)

• Detector Development for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope
  2014
  STFC
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs Prof Balikhin and Dr Fedun) and Director of Research until 2015, (PI Prof Mathioudakis, QUB and the ATST UK Consortium)

• Investigation into self-consistent dynamics of waves and energetic particles in near-Earth plasma based on multi-satellite measurements
  15/8/12 - 14/8/14
  Royal Society
  PI Professor M Balikhin

• Nonlinear Systems Identification and Analysis in the Time, Frequency, and Spatio-Temporal Domains
  1/04/2009 - 31/03/2014
  Advanced Grant Scheme of the European Research Council
  PI Professor S A Billings

• The thalamic clock and the cortical focus theory in childhood absence epilepsy—an insight with a new approach of quantitative EEG analysis in the time domain: the error reduction ratio method
  01/04/2013 - 30/03/2014 The Ryder Briggs Charity
  PG Sarrigiannis, Y Zhao, H L Wei, F He, S A Billings

• Spatio-Temporal Systems Estimation, Modelling, and Analysis
  2.01/2010 - 1/06/2014
  EPSRC
  PI Professor S A Billings Co-I D Coca

• Reverse Engineering Drosophila’s Retinal Networks
  9/08/2010 - 2/01/2014
  BBSRC
  PI D Coca, Co-I M I Juusola, S A Billings

• A century of variability in Greenland melting and iceberg calving
  2/01/2011 - 1/01/2014
  NERC
  PI G Bigg, Co-Is E Hanna, V Kadirkamanathan, S A Billings

• Leverhulme Trust ECF for Dr Verth
  2011-2014
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Ensuring a Prominent University of Sheffield role in UK ground-based solar physics: support for participation in the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST)
  The University of Sheffield
  2013
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Active Metamaterials for Control of Sound and Vibration- A Practical Solution to Creating Negative Refraction
  01/02/12-31/07/13
  EPSRC
  PI Dr S Pope

• MHD Waves and Solar Magneto-Seismology, e-Infrastructure South, EMERALD HPC Facility, 10,000 hrs GPU
  February 2013
  UCL
  PI Dr M Griffiths (CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen)

• Financial Support for Second UK- Ukraine- Spain Conference on Solar Physics and Space Science
  2013
  EOARD
  PI Dr V Fedun

• Cluster Ops Extension Phase 2
  1/1/13 - 31/12/13
  STFC
  PI Professor M Balikhin

• Kinetic Theory of Waves in Space and Astrophysical plasmas
  1/7/09 - 31/03/13
  STFC
  PI Professor M Balikhin

• Computational methods in scientific investigation of space
  2013
  ESA/Space Technology and Advanced Research:
  CoI Dr I Ballai

• Sheffield Cluster postlaunch extension
  1/1/11 - 31/12/12
  STFC
  PI Professor M Balikhin

• Scientific leader of the FP7 consortium, Sheffield coordinating partner
  1/12/10 - 30/11/12
  Professor M Balikhin

• Consolidated Grant Support for the Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre
  From April 2012
  STFC
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs: Professor M S Ruderman, Dr I Ballai, Dr R Jain, Dr E Kim)

• Venus Express Post Launch Support
  1/5/09 - 31/01/12
  STFC
  PI Professor M Balikhin

• STFC Introductory Summer School in Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISS 2012)
  STFC
  2012
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Transverse Oscillations of Coronal Loops
  2009-2012
  STFC Standard Grant
  PI Professor M S Ruderman, Co-I: Professor R. von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Topical Advanced Summer School joint with UK-Ukraine Workshop on MHD Waves, Oscillations and Instabilities in Solar and Space Environment
  2011
  STFC

• Venus Express Science Exploitation
  1/11/08 - 31/10/11
  STFC
  PI Professor M Balikhin

• Heating and Magneto-Seismology of the Solar Atmosphere
  2008-2011
  STFC Standard Grant
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs: Professor M S Ruderman, Dr I Ballai)

• Low Cost Printed Plastic Luminescent Solar Concentrator
  2010-2011
  CLCF Foresighting Proposal
  CoI Professor R. von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (with Dr Dr A Buckley, PI; WY Print)

• Five Summer Studentships, each to fund an UG student for a period of 6 weeks to carry out research over the summer period
  2010
  SURE-CILASS

• The Sheffield Solar Farm - HEIF 4 Faculty
  2010
  Priority KT Grant
  CoI (with Dr A Buckley, PI; 6 other CoIs)

• PV Futures Promoting households to generate low-carbon energy from photovoltaics sited at northerly latitudes, 3x University Networked Studentships
  2010
  CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (with Dr A Buckley as overall PI; 4 other CoIs)

• Particle Physics and Astronomy International Summer School
  IUSS 2009
  STFC
  PI Dr I Ballai, Dr R Jain,

• Observations and MHD Theories in Solar-Terrestrial Research
  2009
  RCUK-China
  PI Professor R. von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoI: Professor P F Chen - Nanjing, China)

• Structure and Dynamics of Solar Interior and Other Stars
  STFC Standard Grant
  PI Dr E-J Kim, Co-I: Rekha Jain

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• Dynamical Plasma Processes in the Heliosphere: from the Sun to the Earth
  18/09/17-21/09/17
  British- Russian Seminar of Young Scientists 2017, Irkutsk, Russia
  Dr C Nelson, M Korsos

• Conference Support for the ESPM15 Conference
  15/01/17-15/09/17
  ESA (European Space Agency)
  PI Dr I Ballai

• The Numerical Modelling of Wave Propagation in Solar Magnetic Flux Tubes and Coronal Heating Using Resistive MHD and Thermal Conductivity
  04/07/16-07/08/16
  Royal Society, MAS Short Term Mobility Grant
  PI Dr V Fedun (CoI Dr F Guzman, Instituto de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico

• Financial Support for Dynamic Sun: I. MHD Waves and Confined Transients in the Magnetised Atmosphere Conference
  2015 - 2016
  ESA (European Space Agency)
  PI Dr V Fedun

• Statistical Study of Electron Flux Dropouts at GEO
  01/06/14-30/09/14
  Commissariat, Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives France
  PI Professor M Balihkin

• Plasma Processes in the Solar and Space Plasma at Diverse Spatio-Temporal Scales: Upcoming Challenges in the Science and Instrumentation
  2014
  Royal Society
  PI Dr V Fedun (CoI, Dr AK Srivastava, BHU IIT, India)

• India-UK Scientic Seminar: Plasma Processes in the Solar and Space Plasma at Diverse Spatio-Temporal Scales: Upcoming Challenges in the Science and Instrumentation
  2013-2014
  Royal Society
  CoPI's Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, Dr V Fedun, A K Srivastava

• Visiting Professorship
  2013
  UIB
  PI Dr I Ballai

• Visiting Professorship: i) Rayleigh-Taylor Instability of Magnetic Interfaces with magnetic Sheer ii) Propogating and Standing Kink Waves in Twisted magnetic Flux Tubes
  2013
  UIB
  PI Professor M S Ruderman

• Dynamic events in the chromosphere of coronal holes: RBEs and Swirls
  2012
  STFC PATT
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• PATT Grant
  2010
  STFC
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Travel Grant
  2009
  Royal Society
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Travel support to carry out STFC PATT awarded observations at Sac Peak, USA
  2009
  STFC
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

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Observing Grants

• Dynamics of Quiet-Sun Spicules: A Multi-Wavelength Perspective, 7 days observing time
  2016
  SOLARNET/ DST
  CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (PI Mr Sharma (PI), T Kiss, M Korsos, Dr G Verth (SU))

• Understanding the Role of Transients in Active Regions Dynamics (14 days observing time)
  Spring 2016
  SOLARNET/ SST
  CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (PI Dr Nelson (SU), Professor Matioudakis, Dr V Henriques, Mr Reid (QUB), Dr Cauzzi (INAF Italy)

• MHD wave identification in small scale magnetic structures: Pores, MBPs, 7 days observing time
  Spring 2014
  SOLARNET
  PI Professor R. von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs Drs M Stangalini INAF-OAR, D Del Moro UTOV, Professor Mathioudakis QUB and Mr Nelson (Sheffield and Armagh Observatory)

• Investigation of the Lower Atmosphere in the Solar Flares
  2014
  SOLARNET
  PI Dr V Fedun (CoI Dr V Olshevsky KUL Belgium, Olena Molochko, MAO, Ukraine)

• A Search for Torsional Motions in Chromospheric Horizontal Magnetic Structures, 7 days observing time
  Spring 2014
  SOLARNET
  PI Drs Morton, Northumbria, G. Verth, Sheffield, Professor Doyle, Armagh, Mr Nelson Sheffield/Armagh Observatory, Dr McLaughlin Northumbria, CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Multi-Wavelength Investigation of Solar Flares (10 days observing time)
  July 2013
  THEMIS/ SOLARNET
  PI Dr V Fedun (CoI Dr V Olshevsky KUL Belgium, Olena Molochko, MAO, Ukraine)

• TBA, Canary Island, 10 days observing time
  Spring 2013
  SOLARNET/SST
  CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (Professor Mathioudakis, Mr Kuridze QUB; Dr Morton NU; Dr Jess QUB; Mr Reardon, Keys QUB)

• Running Super-Penumbral Waves in Magnetic Pores, USA, 7 days observing time
  Spring 2013
  NSO/ DST
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs Prof Mathioudakis QUB; Mr Freij, Nelson U)

• The Detection of Sausage Waves in Near-Limb Spicules, USA 2013 7 days observing time
  Spring 2013
  NSO/ DST
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs Professor Doyle Armagh Observatory, N Ireland, Mr Nelson SU; Mathioudakis QUB; Mr Bennett, Freij SU)

• MHD Oscillations in Small-Scale Chromospheric Structures in the Quiescent Chromosphere, USA, 7 days observing time
  Spring 2013
  NSO/ DST
  CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (Professor Mathioudakis, Mr Kuridze QUB; Drs Morton NU; Jess, Shelyag QUB; Mr Reardon, Keys QUB)

• Dynamic events in the chromosphere ofcoronal holes: RBEs and Swirls, La Palma, 14 days observing time
  June 2012
  SST
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs Drs Scullion U. Oslo; Fedun SU)

• Signatures of Wave Reflection in the Quiescent Solar Chromosphere, USA, 10 days observing time
  November 2011
  NSO/ DST
  CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (Professors Mathioudakis, Keenan, Drs Jess, Keys QUB; Christian Cal. State Uni, USA)

• Hunt for MHD waves: Magneto-seismology of pores and MBPs, USA, 10 days observing time
  September 2010
  NSO/ DST
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (CoIs Dr Dorrian, Dr Jess and Professor Mathioudakis, QUB; Dr Verth KUL; Morton SU)

• Magnetic mapping of the chromosphere: Magneto-seismology of bright points, USA
  2010
  NSO/DST
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, CoIs: Dr Jess, Dr Reardon, Professor Mathioudakis (QUB), Dr Verth (K U L), Mr Morton (SU)

• The observational signature of Alfvén waves in the lower solar atmosphere, EU
  2009
  SST/OPTICON
  PI Dr Mathioudakis, QUB, CoI: Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• The observational signature of Alfvén waves in the lower solar atmosphere, USA
  2009
  NSO/DST
  PI Dr Mathioudakis, QUB, CoI: Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• High Frequency MHD waves in the Lower Solar Atmosphere: Oscillatory Power at the Highest Spatial and Temporal Resolution, EU
  2008
  SST/OPTICON
  PI Dr Mathioudakis, QUB, CoI: Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

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Instrumentation and mission development

• SunbYte Sheffield University Nova Balloon Lifted Solar Telescope (http://sunbyte.group.shef.ac.uk)
  October 2017 - Balloon Launch
  ESA (European Space Agency) under REXUS/BEXUS (Rocket and Balloon Experiments for University Students)
  Academic Lead Dr V Fedun

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Outside the University of Sheffield

• MTA Infrastructure and Development Fund in Support of EU Research Portfolio: SOLARNET
  2015
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• MTA Infrastructure and Development Fund in Support of EU Research Portfolio: FET Space Weather
  2015
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• MTA Infrastructure and Development Fund in Support of EU Research Portfolio: ITN WASPNET
  2015
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Model of Energy Transport from Solar Interior to Corona: The Role of Alfven waves
  2015
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Solar Magneto-Seismology by EUV Waves
  2015
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• MTA Infrastructure and Development Fund in Support of EU Research Portfolio
  2014
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• MTA Infrastructure and Development Fund in Support of EU Research Portfolio
  2014
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• MTA Infrastructure and Development Fund in Support of EU Research Portfolio
  2014
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• MTA Distinguished Guest Scientist Programme Hungary
  2014
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  PI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen

• Parallel Computing Resources for the UK MHD Community
  2009
  PPARC
  CoI Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen with Professor Hood (St Andrews), Professor Fearn (Glasgow), Professor Falle (Leeds), Professor Proctor (Cambridge), Professor Zharkova (Bradford), Professor Zhang (Exeter), Dr Arber (Warwick), Dr Brown (Aberystwyth), Dr Browning (UMIST), Dr Ross (Newcastle), Dr Tsiklauri (Salford).

• Waves in the Solar Corona, Switzerland
  2007 - 2008
  ISSI
  PI Dr Nakariakov (Warwick), Professor R von Fáy-Siebenbürgen.

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