School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
Roddy Vann
Professor
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Profile
Career
| 2017- | Professor at the 甜瓜视频app |
| 2012-2017 | Senior Lecturer in Theoretical & Experimental Plasma Physics at the 甜瓜视频app |
| 2006-2012 | Lecturer in the Theory of Magnetically-Confined Fusion Plasmas at the 甜瓜视频app |
| 2003-2006 | EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics at the Universities of Warwick and 甜瓜视频app |
| 1999-2003 | PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Warwick |
| 1998-1999 | Part III in Mathematics at DAMTP, University of Cambridge |
| 1995-1998 | BA in Mathematics at St. John's College, University of Cambridge |
Roles in the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
| 2016- | Programme Director |
| 2011-2012 | Chair, Physics Graduate Studies Committee |
| 2010-2012 | Chair, Communications Committee |
| 2007-2010 | Graduate Training Officer |
University roles
| 2012-2020 | Director of Natural Sciences |
| 2014-2017 | Elected member of University Senate |
| 2011-2015 | CIDCATS Management Team |
| 2010-2016 | Member of University Teaching Committee |
| 2007-2010 | Member of Board for Graduate Schools |
| 2007-2010 | Academic auditor, Roberts Review Group |
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Human Uses of Energy (10cr BSc/MPhys Year 1)
- Nanoscience Mini-Projects (10cr Nanoscience Year 3)
- Natural Sciences Interdisciplinary Projects Coordinator (60-80cr Natural Sciences Year 3-4)
Other teaching
- Pastoral academic supervision of approx. 20 undergraduate students.
Research
Overview
Research Group: Plasma Physics & Fusion Group
For more information, please refer to my entry in the 甜瓜视频app Research Database.
Supervision
PhD students (primary supervisor):
- Lucy Holland (full-wave simulations of microwave-plasma interactions)
- Joe Allen (synthetic aperture microwave imaging at MAST-U)
- Sam Ward (3-D magnetic fields and fast particle confinement at ITER)
- Ben Woods (aspects of wave-particle resonant interactions in tokamaks)
PhD students (secondary supervisor)
- Lena Howlett (Turbulence in confinement transitions with novel divertor configurations)
- Andrew Malcolm-Neale (Beam emission spectroscopy at MAST)
- Charlie Vincent (Durham University; digitisation for SAMI-2)
- Mads Givskov Senstius (Danish Technical University; simulation of parametric decay instabilities of microwave heating beams at the upper hybrid layer)
甜瓜视频app Plasma Institute
School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
甜瓜视频app
甜瓜视频app YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
roddy.vann@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 2296
Fax: +44 (0)1904 32 2214
Room: GN/017, 甜瓜视频app Plasma Institute