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PhD Theses

Below are PhD thesis submitted by research students supervised by Astrophysics and Space Physics staff. Publications associated with these theses can be found on our publications web page. A thesis template which has been modified by Joseph Roche can be here.

• Quasi-Periodic Pulsations in Solar Flares and the Earth's Ionosphere High Res | Low Res
  Laura Hayes
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher (DIAS)
  Submitted: September 2018

• "Modelling and Monitoring Geomagnetically Induced Currents in Ireland” High Res | Low Res
  Seán Blake
  Supervisors: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher (TCD), Prof. Alan Jones (DIAS)
  External Examiner: Dr. Antti Pulkkinen (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
  Submitted: September 2017

• "LOFAR Tied-array Imaging and Spectroscopy of Solar Radio Bursts” High Res | Low Res
  Diana Morosan
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External Examiner: Prof. Dale Gary (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
  Submitted: September 2016

• "X-Ray and Radio Diagnostics of Accelerated Electrons in Solar Active Regions"
  Aidan O'Flannagain
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Prof. Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
  Submitted: December 2014
  
  
• "Radio Spectroscopy and Imaging Coronal Shocks"
  Pietro Zucca
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Dr. Alec MacKinnon (University of Glasgow)
  Submitted: December 2014
  
  
• "Plasma Diagnostics and Hydrodynamic Evolution of Solar Flares"
  Daniel Ryan
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Dr. David Williams (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
  Submitted: October 2013
  
  
• "The Dynamics and Kinematics of Coronal Mass Ejections and Shock Waves"
  Eoin Carley
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Dr. Nicole Vilmer (Observatoire de Paris)
  Submitted: October 2013
  
  
• "Radio Interferometric Studies of Cool Evolved Stellar Winds"
  Eamon O'Gorman
  Supervisor: Prof. Graham M. Harper
  External examiner: Prof. Tom Millar (Queen's University Belfast)
  Submitted: October 2013
  
  
• "Sunspot Group Evolution and the Global Magnetic Field of the Sun"
  Paul Higgins
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Prof. Lyndsay Fletcher (University of Glasgow)
  Submitted: October 2012
  
  
• "Fields and Flares: Understanding the Complex Magnetic Topologies of Solar Active Regions"
  Sophie Murray
  Supervisors: Dr. D. Shaun Bloomfield and Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Prof. Louise Harra (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
  Submitted: October 2012
  
  
• "EG Andromedae: A Symbiotic System as an Insight into Red Giant Chromospheres"
  Joseph Roche
  Supervisors: Prof. Brian R. Espey and Prof. Graham M. Harper
  External Examiner: Prof. Mihalis Mathioudakis (Queens University Belfast)
  Submitted: January 2012
  
  
• "Propagation of Coronal Mass Ejections in the Inner Heliosphere"
  Shane Maloney
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Dr. David Berghmans (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
  Submitted: October 2011
  
  
• "Kinematic Properties of Globally-Propagating Waves in the Solar Corona"
  David M. Long
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Prof. Astrid Veronig (University of Graz)
  Submitted: October 2011
  
  
• "The Evolution and Space Weather Effects of Solar Coronal Holes"
  Larisza D. Krista
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Prof. Gerry Doyle (Armagh Observatory)
  Submitted: February 2011
  
  
• "The Kinematics and Morphology of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections"
  Jason P. Byrne
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Prof. Richard Harrison (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
  Submitted: October 2010
  
  
• "EUV Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Active Sun"
  Claire L. Raftery
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Dr. Helen Mason (University of Cambridge)
  Submitted: December 2009
  
  
• "Fields, Fractals and Flares: Characterising Magnetic Complexity in Solar Active Regions"
  Paul A. Conlon
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
  External examiner: Prof. Manolis Georgoulis (Academy of Athens)
  Submitted: October 2009
  
  
• "Red Giant Mass Loss: Studying Evolved Stellar Winds with FUSE and HST/STIS"
  Cian Crowley
  Supervisor: Prof. Brian R. Espey
  External examiner: Dr. Alex Brown (University of Colorado)
  Submitted: February 2006